2007 West Dunbartonshire Council election

2007 West Dunbartonshire Council election
3 May 2007
All 22 seats to West Dunbartonshire Council
12 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Martin Rooney Ronnie McColl
Party Labour SNP
Leader's seat Lomond Lomond
Last election 17 seats, 46.8% 3 seats, 33.6%
Seats before 15 3
Seats won 10 9
Seat change 7 6
Popular vote 13,596 12,307
Percentage 37.7% 34.1%
Swing 9.1% 0.5%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader George Black Jim Bollan
Party Independent Scottish Socialist
Leader's seat Dumbarton Leven
Last election 1 seat, 6.5% 1 seat, 10.1%
Seats before 4 1
Seats won 2 1
Seat change 1
Popular vote 3,142 2,413
Percentage 8.7% 6.7%
Swing 2.2% 3.4%
Council Leader before election

Denis Agnew
Independent

Council Leader after election

Iain Robertson
SNP

The 2007 West Dunbartonshire Council election was 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 six new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system form of proportional representation. The new wards replace 22 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

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