East Renfrewshire Council - Wards and Councillors

Scottish council · Scotland · 18 seats in 5 wards · All seats elected every five years · Next election 6 May 2027

East Renfrewshire Council is run by a Labour / Independent coalition. The council has 18 councillors in 5 wards. Seats by party: SNP 6, Labour 5, Conservative 5, Other 2. The next election is on 6 May 2027.

Control

Seats by party

Labour / Independent Coalition

18 seats - 10 for a majority

Labour 5Conservative 5SNP 6Other 2

Seat changes since the 5 May 2022 election No change since the election.

Vote share at the 5 May 2022 election (18 seats, all wards)

ShareSeats won

Conservative29.5%5

SNP28.6%6

Labour20.2%5

Other15.8%2

Green5.4%0

Lib Dem0.5%0

Next election

6 May 2027

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Largest party

SNP 6

4 short of the 10 needed for a majority

Latest by-election

Barrhead Liboside & Uplawmoor

Labour hold, 21 August 2025 (1 since 2021)

Constituencies

1 overlap

2024Now

Voted Leave in 2016

26%

GB 52%

Wards

Who holds each ward

ConservativeSNP

Coloured by the party holding most of the ward's seats today; where seats are split evenly, by the party with the higher share at the last election.

All 5 wards

Councillors and last results

Select a ward for its full results, candidates and last by-election.

Ward and councillors	Last election
Barrhead, Liboside and Uplawmoor Chris Lunday, Julie Ann McHale, Danny Devlin, Angela Convery	5 May 2022 SNP 33.5% lead 7.5 pts
Clarkston, Netherlee and Williamwood Katie Pragnell, Annette Ireland, David Macdonald, Kate Campbell	5 May 2022 SNP 29.0% lead 5.4 pts
Giffnock and Thornliebank Mary Montague, Gordon Wallace, Colm Merrick	5 May 2022 SNP 26.1% lead 1.0 pts
Newton Mearns North and Neilston Owen O'Donnell, Tony Buchanan, Andrew Morrison	5 May 2022 Conservative 34.5% lead 2.4 pts
Newton Mearns South and Eaglesham Paul Edlin, Andrew Anderson, Jim McLean, Caroline Bamforth	5 May 2022 Conservative 48.8% lead 24.5 pts

Barrhead, Liboside and Uplawmoor

Angela Convery SNPChris Lunday SNPDanny Devlin IndependentJulie Ann McHale Labour

Last scheduled election, 5 May 2022 (4 seats)

SNP33.5%

Independent26.0%

Labour20.1%

Conservative10.7%

Independent5.1%

Scottish Green3.4%

Candidate	Party	First prefs	Share
Danny Devlin Elected	Independent	1,753	26.0%
Angela Convery Elected	SNP	1,639	24.3%
Betty Cunningham Elected	Labour	1,355	20.1%
Greg Turner	Conservative	722	10.7%
Chris Lunday Elected	SNP	616	9.1%
Paul Aitken	Independent	345	5.1%
Frank Wilson	Scottish Green	229	3.4%
Neil Anderson	Alba	74	1.1%

Party shares are of first-preference votes.

Last by-election, 21 August 2025

Labour41.9%

SNP25.1%

Reform22.4%

Scottish Green5.4%

Conservative4.6%

Abolish the Scottish Parliament Party0.6%

Candidate	Party	First prefs	Share
Julie Ann Costello McHale Elected	Labour	1,901	41.9%
David McDonald	SNP	1,142	25.1%
Andy MacGibbon	Reform	1,018	22.4%
Karen Sharkey	Scottish Green	247	5.4%
Farooq Choudhry	Conservative	207	4.6%
Gus Ferguson	Abolish the Scottish Parliament Party	27	0.6%

Party shares are of first-preference votes.

Clarkston, Netherlee and Williamwood

Annette Ireland SNPDavid Macdonald IndependentKate Campbell ConservativeKatie Pragnell Labour

Last scheduled election, 5 May 2022 (4 seats)

SNP29.0%

Conservative23.6%

Labour16.8%

Independent14.3%

Scottish Green7.3%

Independent6.4%

Candidate	Party	First prefs	Share
Annette Ireland Elected	SNP	2,119	21.6%
Kate Campbell Elected	Conservative	1,692	17.2%
Katie Pragnell Lees Elected	Labour	1,647	16.8%
David Macdonald Elected	Independent	1,407	14.3%
David McDonald	SNP	724	7.4%
Gordon Keenan	Scottish Green	717	7.3%
Stewart Miller	Independent	624	6.4%
Gerald Edwards	Conservative	622	6.3%
Daphne Vlastari	Lib Dem	203	2.1%
Colette Walker	Independence for Scotland Party	57	0.6%

Party shares are of first-preference votes.

Giffnock and Thornliebank

Colm Merrick SNPGordon Wallace ConservativeMary Montague Labour

Last scheduled election, 5 May 2022 (3 seats)

SNP26.1%

Conservative25.1%

Labour22.2%

Independent13.5%

Independent6.4%

Scottish Green5.4%

Candidate	Party	First prefs	Share
Colm Merrick Elected	SNP	1,888	26.1%
Gordon Wallace Elected	Conservative	1,816	25.1%
Mary Montague Elected	Labour	1,608	22.2%
Allan Steele	Independent	978	13.5%
Alice Roy	Independent	464	6.4%
Karen Sharkey	Scottish Green	387	5.4%
George Gebbie	Alba	92	1.3%

Party shares are of first-preference votes.

Newton Mearns North and Neilston

Andrew Morrison ConservativeOwen O'Donnell LabourTony Buchanan SNP

Last scheduled election, 5 May 2022 (3 seats)

Conservative34.5%

SNP32.1%

Labour25.4%

Scottish Green5.3%

Scottish Family Party1.4%

Alba0.9%

Candidate	Party	First prefs	Share
Tony Buchanan Elected	SNP	1,938	32.1%
Andy Morrison Elected	Conservative	1,579	26.2%
Owen O'Donnell Elected	Labour	1,532	25.4%
Farooq Choudhry	Conservative	501	8.3%
Adrian Egglestone	Scottish Green	322	5.3%
Maria Reid	Scottish Family Party	84	1.4%
Carol McKenzie	Alba	55	0.9%
Derek McMillan	For Future's Sake - Freedom Alliance	23	0.4%

Party shares are of first-preference votes.

Newton Mearns South and Eaglesham

Andrew Anderson LabourCaroline Bamforth SNPJim McLean ConservativePaul Edlin Conservative

Last scheduled election, 5 May 2022 (4 seats)

Conservative48.8%

SNP24.3%

Labour19.1%

Scottish Green4.8%

Alba1.3%

Scottish Family Party1.2%

Candidate	Party	First prefs	Share
Caroline Bamforth Elected	SNP	2,325	24.3%
Paul Edlin Elected	Conservative	2,016	21.1%
Andrew Anderson Elected	Labour	1,831	19.1%
Jim McLean Elected	Conservative	1,584	16.6%
Paul Smith	Conservative	1,067	11.2%
Victoria Palmer-Dyer	Scottish Green	456	4.8%
Amer Siddiqui	Alba	120	1.3%
Luke Reid	Scottish Family Party	119	1.2%
Mark Turnbull	For Future's Sake - Freedom Alliance	44	0.5%

Party shares are of first-preference votes.

By-elections

Every council by-election since 2021

1 by-election since July 2021, 0 of them gains.

Date	Ward	Result	Winner's share
21 August 2025	Barrhead Liboside & Uplawmoor	Labour hold	41.9%

Parliament

Parliamentary constituencies

Constituency	Share of council	2024 winner	Projected now
East Renfrewshire		Labour	SNP 30%

Scottish councils: seats are listed without shares. The projection is PollCheck's demographic model at current polling, not a forecast.

People

Who lives in East Renfrewshire

96,786 residents in 39,725 households

Voted Leave in 2016

26% 26 below GB

Degree or higher

56% 22 above GB

No qualifications

12% 6 below GB

Own their home

83% 22 above GB

Rent from a council or housing association

11% 6 below GB

Rent privately

6% 14 below GB

Aged 15 to 34

24% 7 below GB

Aged 65 and over

27% 5 above GB

GB figure. 2021 Census (Scotland: 2022): age as a share of residents aged 15 and over, qualifications of residents aged 16 and over, housing as a share of households. Leave: 2016 EU referendum, Electoral Commission results by counting area.

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Closest on the measures above: the 2016 Leave vote, age, qualifications and housing. Maps show which party holds each ward.

Sources

Sources and method

Seat totals and control: PollCheck council control tracker. Councillors: Open Council Data (CC BY-SA 4.0). Election results: Democracy Club (CC BY 4.0), with some vote counts from DCLEAPIL, Leman (2025) (CC BY-SA 4.0), and corrections checked against councils' official declarations. Ward boundaries: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Census: Office for National Statistics and National Records of Scotland.

Councillor lists and DCLEAPIL-derived vote counts on this page are available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Scottish councils use STV: party shares are of first-preference votes. The lead is the gap between the top two parties' shares.