# Pentland Hills (ward)

Pentland Hills is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council. Established in 2007 along with the other wards, it mainly covers the villages and suburban developments in the south-west hinterland beyond the A720 Edinburgh city bypass road (Baberton, Balerno, Currie, Juniper Green and Ratho, plus the campus of Heriot-Watt University), up to the boundaries with West Lothian, Midlothian and a small border with the Scottish Borders at the edge of the Pentland Hills.
Initially electing three councillors, within the bypass it covered the Kingsknowe neighbourhood and the southern part of the Wester Hailes housing scheme plus its smaller neighbour Clovenstone; the boundaries were redrawn for the 2017 election, losing Kingsknowe but gaining the northern part of Wester Hailes plus the Calders area, with the population increasing and four councillors being returned. In 2019, the ward had a population of 32,703.

## Councillors

| Election | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors |
| 2007 | | Ronald Cairns (SNP) | | Alastair S Paisley (Conservative) | | Ricky Henderson (Labour) | 3 seats |
| 2012 | Bill Henderson (SNP) | Dominic Heslop (Conservative) | | | | Ricky Henderson (Labour) | 3 seats |
| 2017 | Neil Gardiner (SNP) | Graeme Bruce (Conservative) | | Sue Webber (Conservative) | | Ricky Henderson (Labour) |
| 2022 | Neil Gardiner (SNP) | Graeme Bruce (Conservative) | Stephen Philip Jenkinson (Labour) | | Fiona Glasgow (SNP) |

## Election results
### 2022 election

Pentland Hills - 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| | Conservative | Graeme Bruce (incumbent) | 22.8 | 2,531 | | | | | | | | |
| | SNP | Neil Thomas Gardiner (incumbent) | 21.3 | 2,360 | | | | | | | | |
| | Labour | Stephen Philip Jenkinson | 17.1 | 1,896 | 1,911 | 1,917 | 1,918 | 1,944 | 2,155 | 2,632 | | |
| | Conservative | Emma Gilchrist | 11.2 | 1,239 | 1,482 | 1,484 | 1,487 | 1,532 | 1,558 | 1,760 | 1,827 | |
| | SNP | Fiona Glasgow | 10.1 | 1,115 | 1,121 | 1,236 | 1,239 | 1,254 | 1,674 | 1,755 | 1,841 | 1,994 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Michael William Chappell | 8.0 | 885 | 909 | 911 | 918 | 940 | 1,094 | | | |
| | Scottish Green | Ross Muller | 7.8 | 870 | 875 | 883 | 890 | 908 | | | | |
| | Scottish Family | Richard Fettes | 1.4 | 159 | 165 | 166 | 172 | | | | | |
| | Scottish Libertarian | Louis Rowlands | 0.3 | 32 | 32 | 33 | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 24,312 Valid: 11,087 Spoilt: 179 Quota: 2,218 Turnout: 46.3% |||||||||||||
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### 2017 election

2017 City of Edinburgh Council election
Pentland Hills - 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 |
| | Conservative | Graeme Bruce | 27.2% | 3,083 | |
| | SNP | Neil Gardiner | 21.1% | 2,382 | |
| | Labour | Ricky Henderson (incumbent) | 20.6% | 2,334 | |
| | Conservative | Susan Webber | 14.0% | 1,587 | 2,293 |
| | SNP | Ernesta Noreikiene | 7.8% | 880 | 888 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Emma Farthing | 4.9% | 560 | 608 |
| | Scottish Green | Evelyn Weston | 4.3% | 489 | 499 |
| Electorate: 22,920 Valid: 11,315 Spoilt: 262 Quota: 2,264 Turnout: 50.5% ||||||

### 2012 election

2012 City of Edinburgh Council election
Pentland Hills - 3 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | SNP | Bill Henderson | 29.16% | 2,317 | | | | | | |
| | Labour | Ricky Henderson (incumbent) | 28.85% | 2,293 | | | | | | |
| | Conservative | Dominic Heslop | 15.09% | 1,199 | 1,224 | 1,249 | 1,335 | 1,397 | 1,502 | 2,446 |
| | Conservative | Shelia Low | 12.61% | 1,002 | 1,017 | 1,040 | 1,099 | 1,154 | 1,240 | |
| | Scottish Green | Phyl Meyer | 4.05% | 322 | 400 | 468 | 607 | 840 | | |
| | Independent | Mike 'Professor Pongoo' Ferrigan | 5.59% | 444 | 491 | 531 | 590 | | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Stuart Bridges | 4.66% | 370 | 414 | 462 | | | | |
| Electorate: 18,002 Valid: 7,947 Spoilt: 51 Quota: 1,987 Turnout: 7,998 (44.4%) |||||||||||

### 2007 election

2007 City of Edinburgh Council election
2007 Council election: Pentland Hills :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | Conservative | Alastair S. Paisley | 22.9 | 2,523 | 2,532 | 2,536 | 2,565 | 2,718 | 4,401 |
| | SNP | Ronald Cairns | 20.3 | 2,238 | 2,247 | 2,274 | 2,374 | 2,661 | 2,789 |
| | Labour | Ricky Henderson | 19.5 | 2,148 | 2,161 | 2,181 | 2,263 | 2,663 | 2,798 |
| | Conservative | Andy MacIver | 18.8 | 2,074 | 2,081 | 2,084 | 2,113 | 2,285 | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Iain J. Coleman | 11.4 | 1,255 | 1,281 | 1,299 | 1,471 | | |
| | Scottish Green | Shonagh McEwan | 4.3 | 479 | 488 | 518 | | | |
| | Scottish Socialist | Alister H. Black | 1.1 | 116 | 117 | | | | |
| | Liberal | Irvine McMinn | 0.9 | 94 | | | | | |
| Electorate: 17,390 Valid: 10,927 Spoilt: 104 Quota: 2,732 Turnout: 62.83% ||||||||||