# South Kintyre (ward)

South Kintyre is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Argyll and Bute Council. It elects three Councillors.

## Councillors

| Election | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors |
| 2007 | | John Armour (SNP) | Donald Kelly (Conservative /Ind.) | | Rory Colville (Liberal Democrats) |
| 2012 | | John Armour (SNP) | Donald Kelly (Conservative /Ind.) | | Rory Colville (Liberal Democrats) |
| 2017 | | John Armour (SNP) | Donald Kelly (Conservative /Ind.) | | Rory Colville (Liberal Democrats) |
| 2022 | | John Armour (SNP) | Donald Kelly (Conservative /Ind.) | Tommy MacPherson (Conservative) |
| 2023 | Jennifer Kelly (Ind.) | John Armour (SNP) | | Tommy MacPherson (Conservative) |

## Election results
### 2023 by-election

South Kintyre − 1 seat (2 November 2023) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 |
| | Independent | Jennifer Kelly | 57.3 | 913 |
| | SNP | John Richardson | 17.0 | 271 |
| | Conservative | Joe Cunningham | 13.0 | 208 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Kenny MacKenzie | 11.4 | 183 |
| | Freedom Alliance (UK) | Alan McManus | 0.4 | 7 |
| Electorate: 5,088 Valid: 1,582 Spoilt: 10 Quota: 792 Turnout: 31.3% |||||
Source:

### 2022 election

South Kintyre − 3 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 |
| | Independent | Donald Kelly (incumbent) | 35.9 | 848 | |
| | SNP | John Armour (incumbent) | 32.8 | 773 | |
| | Conservative | Tommy MacPherson | 22.5 | 531 | 615 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Rory Colville (incumbent) | 8.7 | 206 | 310 |
| Electorate: 5,123 Valid: 2,358 Spoilt: 47 Quota: 590 Turnout: 46.9% ||||||
Source:

### 2017 election

2017 Argyll and Bute Council election
South Kintyre - 3 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 |
| | SNP | John Armour (incumbent) | | unopposed |
| | Liberal Democrats | Rory Colville (incumbent) | | unopposed |
| | Conservative | Donald Kelly (incumbent) | | unopposed |
| Quota: ||||

### 2012 election

2012 Argyll and Bute Council election
South Kintyre - 3 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | Conservative | Donald Kelly (incumbent) | 45.87% | 1,133 | | | | | | |
| | SNP | John Donald Semple (incumbent) †††† | 16.80% | 415 | 507.3 | 517.5 | 551.5 | 696.7 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Rory Colville (incumbent) | 14.21% | 351 | 519.2 | 535.1 | 570.3 | 595.7 | 613.7 | 728.3 |
| | SNP | Anne Baird | 8.22% | 203 | 216.6 | 224.4 | 234.2 | | | |
| | Independent | Robert Graham | 6.72% | 167 | 221.9 | 246.9 | 315.9 | 338.7 | 354.9 | |
| | Independent | George Rahman | 5.59% | 138 | 192.5 | 205.5 | | | | |
| | Independent | Deirdre Henderson | 2.55% | 63 | 85.3 | | | | | |
| Electorate: 5,278 Valid: 2,470 Spoilt: 40 Quota: 618 Turnout: 2,510 (46.8%) |||||||||||

### 2007 election

2007 Argyll and Bute Council election
South Kintyre :
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count |
| Conservative | Donald Kelly | 1,332 | 42.9 | 1 | 1 |
| SNP | John Donald Semple | 663 | 21.3 | 2 | 4 |
| Labour | George McMillan | 444 | 14.3 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Rory Colville | 441 | 14.2 | 3 | 6 |
| Conservative | James Campbell Martin | 152 | 4.9 | | |
| Solidarity | Deirdre Henderson | 76 | 2.4 | | |