2022 City of Edinburgh Council election information
City of Edinburgh Council election
2022 City of Edinburgh Council election
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5 May 2022 (2022-05-05)
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All 63 seats to City of Edinburgh Council 32 seats needed for a majority
Registered
399,239
Turnout
47.2%
First party
Second party
Third party
SNP
Lab
LD
Leader
Adam McVey
Cammy Day
Robert Aldridge
Party
SNP
Labour
Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat
Leith
Forth
Drum Brae/Gyle
Last election
19 seats, 27.1%
12 seats, 18.4%
6 seats, 13.6%
Seats before
15
11
6
Seats won
19
13
12
Seat change
1
6
Popular vote
48,199
35,608
38,263
Percentage
25.9%
19.1%
20.6%
Swing
1.1%
0.8%
6.9%
Fourth party
Fifth party
Grn
Con
Leader
Steve Burgess / Claire Miller (co-conveners)
Iain Whyte
Party
Scottish Green
Conservative
Leader's seat
Southside/ Newington (Burgess) City Centre (Miller)
Craigentinny/ Duddingston
Last election
8 seats, 12.4%
18 seats, 27.7%
Seats before
7
17
Seats won
10
9
Seat change
2
9
Popular vote
26,411
32,612
Percentage
14.2%
17.5%
Swing
1.8%
10.2%
Election result by council wards
Leader before election
Adam McVey (SNP)
No overall control
Leader after election
Cammy Day (Labour)
No overall control
Elections to the City of Edinburgh Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. As with other Scottish council elections, it was held using single transferable vote (STV) – a form of proportional representation – in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference.
For the second consecutive elections, the Scottish National Party (SNP) were returned as the largest party with 19 seats albeit with a slightly reduced vote share (down 1.1%). Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens all made gains at the expense of the Conservatives who fell from the second-largest party to the smallest representative group on the council. Labour overtook the Conservatives into second place as they gained one seat to return 13 councillors. The Liberal Democrats doubled their number of councillors as they were returned as the third-largest party with 12 seats while the Greens gained two seats to hold 10. The number of Conservative councillors halved as they fell from 18 seats to nine.
Following the election, the ruling SNP-Labour coalition was replaced by a Labour minority administration supported by the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives.
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