2022 East Lothian Council election

2022 East Lothian Council election
6 May 2022 (2022-05-06)
All 22 seats to East Lothian Council
12 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
LAB
SNP
CON
Leader Norman Hampshire Lyn Jardine Lachlan Bruce
Party Labour SNP Conservative
Leader's seat Dunbar and East Linton Dunbar and East Linton North Berwick Coastal
Last election 9 seats 6 seats 7 seats
Seats won 9 7 4
Seat change 0 1 3
First preferences 32.6% 28.24% 21.93%
First preferences (%) 12,426 11,563 8,978
Swing (pp) 0.53% 0.34% 5.47%
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
GRN
IND
Leader Shona Mcintosh
Party Green Independents
Leader's seat Musselburgh
Last election 0 seats 0 seats
Seats won 1 1
Seat change 1 1
First preferences 9.94% 3.12%
First preferences (%) 4,069 1,192
Swing (pp) 5.45% 2.81%
Council Leader before election

Norman Hampshire
Labour

Council Leader after election

Norman Hampshire
Labour

The 2022 East Lothian Council election took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election used the 5 wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 18 councillors being elected. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.

Scottish Labour retained control of the council, whilst the Scottish Greens won their first ever seat in East Lothian.

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