# Cumnock and New Cumnock (ward)

Cumnock and New Cumnock 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 13,210 people.
The area is a Labour stronghold with the party holding three of the four seats between in 2007 and 2017. Support for the party fell in 2017 with only one councillor elected but it recovered in 2022 and the party currently holds half the seats.

## 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 Cumnock and New Cumnock was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained all of the former Cumnock East, Cumnock West, New Cumnock wards as well as part of the former Ochiltree, Skares, Netherthird and Craigen, Drongan, Stair and Rankinston, Auchinleck, Dalmellington and Mauchline wards. Cumnock and New Cumnock lies in the southeast of the council area next to its border with Dumfries and Galloway and takes in the towns of Cumnock, New Cumnock and Ochiltree. 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 | Councillors |
| 2007 | | Billy Crawford (Labour) | | Eric Ross (Labour) | | Barney Menzies (Labour) | Kathy Morrice (SNP) |
| 2012 | | Billy Crawford (Labour) | | Eric Ross (Labour) | | Barney Menzies (Labour) | Kathy Morrice (SNP) |
| 2017 | | Billy Crawford (Labour) | Walter Young (Conservative) | | Jim McMahon (SNP) | Jacqui Todd (SNP) |
| 2022 | Neill Watts (Conservative) | Billy Crawford (Labour) | | June Kyle (Labour) | Jim McMahon (SNP) |

## Election results
### 2022 election

Cumnock and New Cumnock - 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| | Labour | Billy Crawford (incumbent) | 30.1 | 1,349 | | | | |
| | SNP | Jim McMahon (incumbent) | 20.0 | 897 | | | | |
| | Conservative | Neill Watts | 18.5 | 827 | 847 | 858 | 858 | 915 |
| | SNP | Jacqui Todd (incumbent) | 15.7 | 701 | 714 | 723 | 724 | 752 |
| | Labour | June Kyle | 13.2 | 593 | 961 | | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Fraser Wright | 2.4 | 109 | 114 | 127 | 127 | |
| Electorate: 11,044 Valid: 4,476 Spoilt: 116 Quota: 896 Turnout: 41.6% |||||||||
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### 2017 election

Cumnock and New Cumnock - 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | Labour | Billy Crawford (incumbent) | 28.7 | 1,279 | | | | | | |
| | Conservative | Walter Young | 22.2 | 991 | | | | | | |
| | SNP | Jacqui Todd | 16.4 | 731 | 740 | 743 | 745 | 773 | 831 | 898 |
| | SNP | Jim McMahon | 14.4 | 641 | 656 | 659 | 660 | 684 | 743 | 812 |
| | Independent | Jessie Owens | 8.3 | 371 | 390 | 411 | 418 | 461 | | |
| | Labour | Carol Ann Mochan | 6.6 | 295 | 577 | 599 | 605 | 626 | 736 | |
| | Scottish Green | Peter Black | 2.8 | 127 | 136 | 143 | 149 | | | |
| | Scottish Libertarian | Gordon Bircham | 0.6 | 27 | 28 | 32 | | | | |
| Electorate: 10,735 Valid: 4,462 Spoilt: 137 Quota: 893 Turnout: 42.8% |||||||||||
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### 2012 election

Cumnock and New Cumnock – 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| | Labour | Eric Ross (incumbent) | 23.8 | 987 | | | | | | | |
| | SNP | Kathy Morrice (incumbent) | 21.6 | 894 | | | | | | | |
| | Labour | Barney Menzies (incumbent) | 19.5 | 809 | 892 | | | | | | |
| | Labour | Billy Crawford (incumbent) | 14.8 | 612 | 672 | 677 | 741 | 744 | 763 | 800 | 945 |
| | Independent | Ian Allan | 7.4 | 308 | 310 | 311 | 314 | 352 | 409 | 475 | |
| | Conservative | James Boswell | 5.0 | 206 | 208 | 209 | 210 | 215 | | | |
| | SNP | Craig Murray | 4.3 | 180 | 185 | 253 | 255 | 258 | 286 | | |
| | Independent | David Fraser | 1.4 | 59 | 62 | 63 | 64 | | | | |
| Electorate: 10,947 Valid: 4,055 Spoilt: 89 Quota: 812 Turnout: 37.0% ||||||||||||
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### 2007 election

Cumnock and New Cumnock - 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | Labour | Eric Ross | 24.4 | 1,297 | | | | | | |
| | Labour | Billy Crawford | 18.1 | 961 | 1,059 | 1,088 | | | | |
| | Labour | Barney Menzies | 17.9 | 950 | 1,026 | 1,049 | 1,066 | | | |
| | SNP | Kathy Morrice | 13.8 | 733 | 744 | 809 | 810 | 810 | 898 | 1,504 |
| | SNP | Andrew Kent | 12.4 | 661 | 664 | 696 | 698 | 698 | 815 | |
| | Conservative | James Boswell | 9.8 | 519 | 524 | 536 | 536 | 536 | | |
| | Solidarity | Jim Monaghan | 3.8 | 200 | 205 | | | | | |
| Electorate: 11,057 Valid: 5,321 Spoilt: 154 Quota: 1,065 Turnout: 48.1% |||||||||||
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