# Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse (ward)

Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse is one of the nine electoral wards of East Ayrshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 17,739 people.
The area is a Scottish National Party (SNP) stronghold with the party holding half the seats at every election since the creation of the ward.

## Boundaries

The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections. As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contains all of the former Crosshouse, Gatehead and Knockentiber, Kilmarnock Central West and Grange and Howard wards as well as parts of the former Altonhill, Hillhead and Longpark, Kilmarnock Central East, Kilmarnock Central South, North New Farm Loch and Dean and Riccarton wards.
Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse includes the westernmost part of the council area between its borders with North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire and takes in the towns of Crosshouse, Gatehead and Knockentiber as well as the neighbourhoods of Hillhead, Bonnyton, Grange and Howard in Kilmarnock. Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, the ward's boundaries were not changed.

## Councillors

| Election | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors |
| 2007 | | Ian Linton (SNP) | | Douglas Reid (SNP) | Robert Keohone (Labour) | Tom Cook (Conservative) |
| 2012 | Lillian Jones (Labour) | Ian Linton (SNP) | | Douglas Reid (SNP) | | Tom Cook (Conservative) |
| 2017 | Lillian Jones (Labour) | Ian Linton (SNP) | | Douglas Reid (SNP) | | Tom Cook (Conservative) |
| 2022 | Lillian Jones (Labour) | Ian Linton (SNP) | James Adams (Conservative) | Douglas Reid (SNP) |
| 2024 | Jayne Sangster (Labour) | Ian Linton (SNP) | James Adams (Conservative) | Douglas Reid (SNP) |

## Election results
### 2024 by-election

Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse by-election (14 November 2024) – 1 seat :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| | Labour | Jayne Sangster | 39.4 | 1,213 | 1,225 | 1,276 | 1,468 | 1,935 |
| | SNP | Marie Robertson | 33.3 | 1,025 | 1,032 | 1,060 | 1,127 | |
| | Conservative | Allan MacDonald | 20.2 | 623 | 635 | 675 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Lee Manley | 38.1 | 145 | 162 | | | |
| | Independent | Stephen McNamara | 2.4 | 75 | | | | |
| Electorate: 13,260 Valid: 3,081 Spoilt: 28 Quota: 1,541 Turnout: 23.4% |||||||||
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### 2022 election

Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse – 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| | Labour | Lillian Jones (incumbent) | 28.2 | 1,662 | | | |
| | Conservative | James Adams | 22.0 | 1,297 | | | |
| | SNP | Iain Linton (incumbent) | 19.8 | 1,168 | 1,219 | | |
| | SNP | Douglas Reid (incumbent) | 18.6 | 1,093 | 1,142 | 1,149 | 1,182 |
| | Independent | Frank McNiff | 6.3 | 369 | 475 | 516 | 517 |
| | Scottish Green | Elizabeth Brown | 3.9 | 228 | 299 | 308 | 312 |
| | Alba | Guy Njali Bola | 1.2 | 71 | 81 | 82 | 83 |
| Electorate: 13,347 Valid: 5,888 Spoilt: 70 Quota: 1,178 Turnout: 44.6% ||||||||
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### 2017 election

Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse - 4 members :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 |
| | Conservative | Tom Cook (incumbent) | 31.3 | 1,789 |
| | Labour | Lillian Jones (incumbent) | 23.5 | 1,344 |
| | SNP | Iain Linton (incumbent) | 20.5 | 1,171 |
| | SNP | Douglas Reid (incumbent) | 20.1 | 1,152 |
| | Scottish Green | Elizabeth Brown | 3.8 | 220 |
| | Scottish Libertarian | Stef Johnstone | 0.8 | 45 |
| Electorate: 12,631 Valid: 5,721 Spoilt: 88 Quota: 1,145 Turnout: 46% |||||
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### 2012 election

Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse – 4 members :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | SNP | Iain Linton (incumbent) | 24.3 | 1,210 | | | | | |
| | SNP | Douglas Reid (incumbent) | 20.7 | 1,032 | | | | | |
| | Labour | Lillian Jones | 20.6 | 1,025 | | | | | |
| | Conservative | Tom Cook (incumbent) | 16.6 | 828 | 864 | 869 | 870 | 980 | 1,171 |
| | Labour | Dave Meechan | 10.4 | 516 | 554 | 559 | 582 | 709 | |
| | Independent | Andi McCann | 7.5 | 375 | 417 | 423 | 424 | | |
| Electorate: 12,199 Valid: 4,986 Spoilt: 136 Quota: 998 Turnout: 40.9% ||||||||||
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### 2007 election

Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse - 4 members :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | SNP | Iain Linton | 25.1 | 1,656 | | | | | |
| | SNP | Douglas Reid | 22.1 | 1,454 | | | | | |
| | Labour | Robert Keohone | 19.4 | 1,280 | 1,315 | 1,330 | | | |
| | Conservative | Tom Cook | 17.0 | 1,118 | 1,118 | 1,209 | 1,209 | 1,308 | 1,578 |
| | Labour | Brian Reeves | 13.1 | 866 | 901 | 917 | 925 | 978 | |
| | Independent | Shirley-Anne Weir | 3.3 | 220 | 263 | 280 | 281 | | |
| Electorate: 11,833 Valid: 6,594 Spoilt: 182 Quota: 1,319 Turnout: 55.7% ||||||||||
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