Colinton/Fairmilehead is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council.[2] Established in 2007 along with the other wards, it elects three Councillors.
As its name suggests, the ward's territory is based around the communities of Colinton and Fairmilehead in the far south of the city's urban area up to the boundary with Midlothian, also including Bonaly, Comiston, Firrhill, Hunter's Tryst / New Swanston, Oxgangs and Redford, plus the separate hamlet of Swanston. In 2019, the ward had a population of 25,257.[3]
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Elaine Aitken (Conservative) |
Jason Rust (Conservative) |
Eric Barry (Labour) | |||||
| 2012 | Richard Lewis (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Philip Doggart (Conservative) |
Scott Arthur (Labour) | ||||||
| 2022 | Marco Biagi (SNP) | |||||||
2017 City of Edinburgh Council election[4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | Jason Rust (incumbent) | 33.25% | 3,783 | ||||||
| Labour | Scott Arthur | 20.59% | 2,343 | 2,423 | 2,541 | 2,855 | |||
| Conservative | Philip Doggart | 16.51% | 1,879 | 2,580 | 2,602 | 2,724 | 2,727 | 3,430 | |
| SNP | Richard John Lewis (incumbent) | 20.73% | 2,359 | 2,387 | 2,610 | 2,712 | 2,714 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | David Richard Walker | 4.64% | 528 | 584 | 680 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Sara Marsden | 4.28% | 487 | 500 | |||||
| Electorate: 19,085 Valid: 11,379 Spoilt: 111 Quota: 2,845 Turnout: 60.2% | |||||||||
2012 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Conservative | Jason Rust (incumbent) | 28.71% | 2,692 | |||||||
| Conservative | Elaine Aitken (incumbent) | 23.29% | 2,184 | 2,427 | ||||||
| SNP | Richard Lewis | 20.59% | 1,931 | 1,953 | 1,962 | 1,975 | 2,021 | 2,187 | 2,816 | |
| Labour | Eric Barry (incumbent) | 17.87% | 1,676 | 1,699 | 1,708 | 1,724 | 1,831 | 2,070 | ||
| Scottish Green | Andy Saunders | 4.91% | 460 | 474 | 484 | 501 | 647 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Alan Beal | 3.62% | 339 | 350 | 365 | 368 | ||||
| UKIP | Malcolm MacKay | 1.01% | 95 | 100 | 105 | |||||
| Electorate: 18,521 Valid: 9,377 Spoilt: 74 (0.78%) Quota: 2,345 Turnout: 9,451 (51%) | ||||||||||
2007 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | Elaine Aitken | 23.1 | 2,877 | 2,878 | 2,907 | 3,111 | |||
| Conservative | Jason Rust | 22.6 | 2,815 | 2,816 | 2,844 | 2,994 | 3,012.70 | 3,595.21 | |
| Labour | Eric Barry | 18.7 | 2,332 | 2,41 | 2,442 | 2,758 | 2,760.15 | 3,639.03 | |
| SNP | Thomas Kielty | 14.9 | 1,861 | 1,881 | 1,983 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Stuart Bridges | 14.8 | 1,842 | 1,845 | 2,020 | 2,589 | 2,593.21 | ||
| Scottish Green | Alastair J Tibbitt | 4.2 | 517 | 546 | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | Robert Mathie | 0.6 | 80 | ||||||
| Electorate: 18,413 Valid: 12,324 Spoilt: 132 Quota: 3,082 Turnout: 67.6% | |||||||||
