# Annick (ward)

Annick 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. Originally a three-member ward, Annick was increased in size following a boundary review and has elected four councillors since the 2017 East Ayrshire Council election.
Since the creation of the ward, Labour, the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Conservatives have held seats with each topping the poll in at least one election.

## 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 Annick was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards.
It contained most of the former Stewarton East and Dunlop and Kilmaurs and Stewarton South wards as well as all of the former Stewarton Central ward and initially elected three members. Annick includes the northernmost part of the council area between its borders with North Ayrshire and East Renfrewshire and takes in the towns of Stewarton, Kilmaurs and Dunlop. Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, the ward was expanded to elect four members. The towns of Fenwick, Moscow and Waterside – previously part of the Irvine Valley ward – to the east of the A77 were included in the new boundaries.

## Councillors

| Election | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors |
| 2007 | | John McGhee (Labour) | John MacKay (SNP) | | Rose-Ann Cunninghame (Conservative) |
| 2012 | Eòghann MacColl (SNP) | John McGhee (Labour) | Ellen Freel (Ind.) | | |
| 2017 | Gordon Jenkins (SNP) | John McGhee (Labour) | Ellen Freel (Ind.) | John McFadzean (Conservative) |
| 2022 | Stephen Canning (SNP) | John McGhee (Labour) | Ellen Freel (Ind.) | John McFadzean (Conservative) |

## Election results
### 2022 election

Annick – 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| | Conservative | John McFadzean (incumbent) | 24.5 | 1,516 | | | | |
| | Labour | John McGhee (incumbent) | 19.1 | 1,183 | 1,270 | | | |
| | SNP | Stephen Canning | 16.9 | 1,048 | 1,052 | 1,054 | 1,139 | 2,086 |
| | SNP | Wendy Hannah | 16.1 | 998 | 1,004 | 1,007 | 1,063 | |
| | Independent | Ellen Freel (incumbent) | 13.1 | 812 | 872 | 883 | 1,216 | 1,274 |
| | Independent | John Cairns | 10.1 | 627 | 666 | 672 | | |
| Electorate: 12,530 Valid: 6,184 Spoilt: 80 Quota: 1,237 Turnout: 50.0% |||||||||
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### 2017 election

Annick - 4 members :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | Conservative | John McFadzean | 36.8 | 2,277 | | | | | |
| | SNP | Gordon Jenkins | 17.4 | 1,076 | 1,097 | 1,098 | 1,098 | 1,161 | 1,993 |
| | SNP | Eòghann MacColl (incumbent) | 14.9 | 925 | 947 | 948 | 949 | 1,005 | |
| | Labour | John McGhee (incumbent) | 13.5 | 837 | 1,078 | 1,088 | 1,100 | 1,154 | 1,207 |
| | Independent | Ellen Freel (incumbent) | 12.5 | 775 | 1,013 | 1,021 | 1,056 | 1,162 | 1,224 |
| | Scottish Green | Jen Broadhurst | 4.4 | 274 | 326 | 328 | 334 | | |
| | Independent | Gordon Walker | 0.3 | 20 | 61 | 66 | | | |
| | Scottish Libertarian | Amrik Singh | 0.1 | 7 | 22 | | | | |
| Electorate: 11,761 Valid: 6,191 Spoilt: 63 Quota: 1,239 Turnout: 53.2% ||||||||||
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### 2012 election

Annick – 3 members :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | Labour | John McGhee (incumbent) | 24.4 | 1,021 | 1,032 | 1,060 | | | |
| | SNP | Eòghann MacColl | 22.7 | 947 | 957 | 1,327 | | | |
| | Conservative | Rose-Ann Cunninghame (incumbent) | 20.9 | 873 | 886 | 907 | 941 | 943 | |
| | Independent | Ellen Freel | 19.4 | 810 | 827 | 858 | 960 | 965 | 1,394 |
| | SNP | John MacKay (incumbent) | 11.0 | 461 | 465 | | | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Greg Foster | 1.6 | 68 | | | | | |
| Electorate: 9,497 Valid: 4,180 Spoilt: 57 Quota: 1,046 Turnout: 44.0% ||||||||||
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### 2007 election

Annick - 3 members :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | SNP | John MacKay | 30.7 | 1,625 | | | | | |
| | Conservative | Rose-Ann Cunninghame | 21.1 | 1,117 | 1,163 | 1,194 | 1,401 | | |
| | Labour | John McGhee | 17.2 | 909 | 945 | 958 | 1,087 | 1,102 | 1,840 |
| | Labour | Jim O'Neil | 17.1 | 905 | 928 | 938 | 1,077 | 1,085 | |
| | Independent | Ann Hay | 12.3 | 651 | 726 | 746 | | | |
| | BNP | Thomas Sweeten | 1.6 | 86 | 99 | | | | |
| Electorate: 9,068 Valid: 5,293 Spoilt: 89 Quota: 1,324 Turnout: 58.3% ||||||||||
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