# 2007 Scottish Borders Council election

Elections to Scottish Borders Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 11 new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward will elect three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system form of proportional representation. The new wards replace 34 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

## Election results

Scottish Borders Local Election Result 2007 :
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− |
| Conservative | 11 | N/A | N/A | ±0 | 32.4 | 26.8 | 13,083 | 1.8 |
| Liberal Democrats | 10 | N/A | N/A | +2 | 29.4 | 24.6 | 11,980 | 1.7 |
| SNP | 6 | N/A | N/A | +4 | 17.6 | 18.8 | 9,161 | 7.3 |
| Independent | 5 | N/A | N/A | -8 | 14.7 | 21.1 | 10,272 | 9.3 |
| Borders | 2 | N/A | N/A | +2 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 2,597 | New |
| Labour | 0 | N/A | N/A | ±0 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 919 | 0.5 |
| Scottish Green | 0 | N/A | N/A | ±0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 456 | New |
| Solidarity | 0 | N/A | N/A | ±0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 210 | New |
| Scottish Socialist | 0 | N/A | N/A | ±0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 105 | 1.7 |

## Ward results

Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Tweeddale West :
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count |
| Liberal Democrats | Catriona Bhatia | 1,202 | 25.2 | 1 | 1 |
| Conservative | Neil Calvert | 1,091 | 22.9 | 2 | 4 |
| SNP | Willie Archibald | 784 | 16.4 | 3 | 5 |
| Independent | Nancy Norman | 672 | 14.1 | | |
| Independent | Tom Davidson | 667 | 14.0 | | |
| Labour | Eamonn O'Neil | 356 | 7.5 | | |
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Tweeddale East :
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count |
| SNP | Bill Herd | 1,167 | 24.3 | 1 | 3 |
| Liberal Democrats | Graham Garvie | 1,159 | 24.1 | 2 | 3 |
| Conservative | Gavin Logan | 1,086 | 22.6 | 3 | 4 |
| Labour | Robin Tatler | 563 | 11.7 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Bran McCrow | 490 | 10.2 | | |
| Borders | Tom Douglas | 231 | 4.8 | | |
| Scottish Socialist | Norman Lockhart | 105 | 2.2 | | |
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Galashiels and District :
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count |
| SNP | John Mitchell | 1,519 | 28.2 | 1 | 1 |
| Liberal Democrats | Jim Hume | 1,466 | 27.2 | 2 | 1 |
| Conservative | Fiona Lackenby | 735 | 13.6 | 4 | 6 |
| Borders | Sandy Aitchison | 693 | 12.9 | 3 | 6 |
| Independent | Bill White | 453 | 8.4 | | |
| Solidarity | Graeme McIver | 210 | 3.9 | | |
| Independent | David Smail | 173 | 3.2 | | |
| Independent | Alistair Lings | 136 | 2.5 | | |
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Selkirkshire :
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count |
| Liberal Democrats | Vicky Davidson | 1,313 | 29.5 | 1 | 1 |
| Conservative | Carolyn Riddell-Carre | 1,121 | 25.2 | 2 | 1 |
| SNP | Kenneth Gunn | 826 | 18.5 | 3 | 5 |
| Independent | Gordon Edgar | 558 | 12.5 | | |
| Borders | Violet Baillie | 360 | 8.1 | | |
| Independent | Alistair Pattullo | 279 | 6.3 | | |
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Leaderdale and Melrose :
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count |
| Independent | David Parker | 1,362 | 29.9 | 1 | 1 |
| Conservative | John Greenwell | 713 | 15.6 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | John Paton-Day | 703 | 15.3 | 2 | 5 |
| Borders | Nicholas Watson | 692 | 15.1 | 3 | 5 |
| SNP | Frank McCann | 640 | 14.0 | | |
| Independent | Harry Cummings | 394 | 8.6 | | |
| Independent | John Rae | 78 | 1.7 | | |
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Mid Berwickshire :
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count |
| Liberal Democrats | Frances Renton | 1,186 | 27.0 | 1 | 1 |
| SNP | Donald Moffat | 1,173 | 26.7 | 2 | 1 |
| Conservative | Trevor Jones | 1,051 | 23.9 | 3 | 4 |
| Conservative | Margaret McCrave | 722 | 16.4 | | |
| Borders | Diana Miers | 255 | 5.8 | | |
| Independent | Anne Roberts | 105 | 2.4 | | |
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: East Berwickshire :
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count |
| Independent | Michael Cook | 1,512 | 34.8 | 1 | 1 |
| Conservative | Jim Fullarton | 1,333 | 30.6 | 2 | 1 |
| Liberal Democrats | David Raw | 804 | 18.5 | 3 | 3 |
| SNP | Aileen Orr | 701 | 16.1 | | |
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Kelso and District :
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count |
| Liberal Democrats | Alec Nicol | 1,116 | 25.7 | 1 | 1 |
| Conservative | Alasdair Hutton | 982 | 22.7 | 2 | 5 |
| Independent | Tom Weatherston† | 814 | 18.8 | 3 | 5 |
| Independent | Trevor Black | 431 | 9.9 | | |
| Conservative | Andrew Thomson | 427 | 9.9 | | |
| SNP | Paul Cartledge | 346 | 8.0 | | |
| Scottish Green | Michael Scott | 218 | 5.0 | | |
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Jedburgh and District :
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count |
| Conservative | Sandy Scott | 1,011 | 26.0 | 1 | 1 |
| Conservative | Len Wyse | 878 | 22.6 | 2 | 4 |
| SNP | Jim Brown | 877 | 22.6 | 3 | 4 |
| Liberal Democrats | Alistair O'Neil | 716 | 18.4 | | |
| Borders | Jim Smith | 316 | 8.1 | | |
| Independent | Jim Millhouse | 87 | 2.2 | | |
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Hawick and Denholm :
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count |
| Conservative | Zandra Elliott | 980 | 26.0 | 1 | 1 |
| Independent | Stewart Marshall | 904 | 24.0 | 2 | 5 |
| Liberal Democrats | Jock Houston | 738 | 19.6 | 3 | 5 |
| SNP | Derek Philips | 454 | 12.0 | | |
| Independent | Andrew Farquhar | 301 | 8.0 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alex Martin | 232 | 6.2 | | |
| Scottish Green | Kevin Ferguson | 112 | 3.0 | | |
| Borders | Charles Humphries | 50 | 1.3 | | |
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Hawick and Hermitage :
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count |
| Independent | David Paterson | 1,022 | 25.8 | 1 | 1 |
| Conservative | George Turnbull | 953 | 24.1 | 2 | 4 |
| SNP | Jim Rowan | 674 | 17.0 | | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ron Smith | 475 | 12.0 | 3 | 6 |
| Liberal Democrats | Etta McKean | 380 | 9.6 | | |
| Independent | Jake Irvine | 324 | 8.2 | | |
| Scottish Green | Lesley Wood | 126 | 3.2 | | |

## Changes after the elections

* †Tom Weatherston ceased to be an Independent and joined the Conservatives on 17 January 2011