Local By-elections

'Labour's Richard Tullett gained the seat despite a 22.5% drop in his party's first count vote share - a perverse side-effect of the single transferable vote system introduced for Scottish council elections last year. The system is meant to achieve a proportional seats share-out but yesterday's result was for only one seat and so leaves Labour with all three of the ward's councillors.'
Stewart Paterson and Robbie Dinwoodie in the Herald, 10 th March 2008.

Gains and Losses in local by-elections since 2007

Single Transferable Vote (STV) system

Party	Holds	Gains	Losses	Overall
Liberal Democrat	0	+ 3	- 0	+ 3
Scottish National Party	5	+ 3	- 1	+ 2
Labour	4	+ 1	- 1	+ 0
Conservative & Unionist	1	+ 0	- 2	- 2
Independent	1	+ 0	- 3	- 3

Wards changing hands in local by-elections since 2007

Liberal Democrat gains from Independent (2)

Ward	Council	Date	Result
Helensburgh & Lomond South	Argyll & Bute	4 th October 2007	Liberal Democrat gain from Independent
Aboyne, Upper Deeside & Donside	Aberdeenshire	23 rd April 2009	Liberal Democrat gain from Independent

Scottish National Party gains from Labour (1)

Ward	Council	Date	Result
Maryfield	Dundee	12 th March 2009	Scottish National Party gain from Labour

Scottish National Party gains from Conservative & Unionist (1)

Ward	Council	Date	Result
Midstocket/Rosemount	Aberdeen	16 th August 2007	Scottish National Party gain from Conservative & Unionist

Scottish National Party gains from Independent (1)

Ward	Council	Date	Result
Elgin City South	Moray	14 th February 2008	Scottish National Party gain from Independent

Liberal Democrat gains from Conservative & Unionist (1)

Ward	Council	Date	Result
Inverness West	Highland	23 rd April 2009	Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative & Unionist

Labour gains from Scottish National Party (1)

Ward	Council	Date	Result
Cambuslang East	South Lanarkshire	6 th March 2008	Labour gain from Scottish National Party

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