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2007 East Lothian Council election
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All 23 seats to East Lothian Council 12 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Party
Labour
SNP
Liberal Democrats
Last election
17 seats, 40.6%
1 seat, 19.2%
1 seat, 14.9%
Seats before
17
1
1
Seats won
7
7
6
Seat change
10
6
5
Fourth party
Fifth party
Party
Conservative
Independent
Last election
4 seats, 23.1%
0 seats, 0.6%
Seats before
4
0
Seats won
2
1
Seat change
2
1
The multi-member wards
Council Leader before election
Labour
Council Leader after election
Paul Stewart McLennan
SNP
Elections to East Lothian 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 using seven new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004. Each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system of proportional representation. The wards replaced 23 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.
The Labour majority administration was replaced by a coalition between the SNP and Liberal Democrats, led by the SNP's Paul Stewart McLennan.
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