Corstorphine/Murrayfield 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 currently elects three Councillors.
As its name suggests, the ward's territory is based around the suburban communities of Corstorphine and Murrayfield in the west of the city, also including Balgreen, Broomhall, Carrick Knowe, Ravelston and Roseburn, Saughtonhall,[3] with four large open areas comprising two golf courses, Edinburgh Zoo and the playing fields surrounding Murrayfield Stadium. A minor boundary change in 2017 saw the loss of the Forrester and West Coates neighbourhoods but the addition of Wester Broom and Orchard Brae South (between Roseburn Footpath and Stewart's Melville College) – there was a slight increase in the population, which in 2019 stood at 24,192.[4]
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Paul Edie (Liberal Democrats) |
Phil Wheeler (Liberal Democrats) |
Jeremy Balfour (Conservative) | |||||
| 2012 | Frank Ross (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Gillian Gloyer (Liberal Democrats) |
Scott Douglas (Conservative) | ||||||
| 2022 | Alan Christopher Beal (Liberal Democrats) |
Euan Robert Davidson (Liberal Democrats) | ||||||
| 2023 by-election | Fiona Bennett (Liberal Democrats) | |||||||
Fiona Bennett from the Scottish Liberal Democrats was elected.[5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Fiona Bennett | 56.0 | 4,577 | |
| SNP | Donald Rutherford | 13.3 | 1,086 | |
| Conservative | Hugh Findlay | 9.6 | 788 | |
| Labour | Richard Parker | 7.0 | 568 | |
| Scottish Green | Chris Young | 5.1 | 417 | |
| Independent | Elaine Miller | 3.7 | 327 | |
| Independent | Pete Gregson | 3.6 | 295 | |
| Scottish Family | Richard Fettes | 1.1 | 90 | |
| Scottish Libertarian | Gary Smith | 0.2 | 20 | |
| Electorate: 19,435 Valid: 8,168 Spoilt: 57 Quota: 4,085 Turnout: 42.3% | ||||
2022 City of Edinburgh Council election[9]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Alan Christopher Beal | 34.2% | 3,897 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Euan Robert Davidson | 15.6% | 1,772 | 2,691 | 2,716 | 2,883 | |||
| SNP | Frank Ross (incumbent) | 18.7% | 2,132 | 2,152 | 2,163 | 2,567 | 2,570 | 2,941 | |
| Conservative | Hugh Findlay | 16.0% | 1,818 | 1,856 | 1,878 | 1,894 | 1,905 | 2,015 | |
| Labour | Richard Parker | 7.8% | 893 | 918 | 928 | 1,090 | 1,099 | ||
| Scottish Green | Connal Hughes | 6.9% | 784 | 804 | 810 | ||||
| Scottish Family | Norman David Colville | 0.8% | 88 | 94 | |||||
| Electorate: 19,533 Valid: 11,384 Spoilt: 108 Quota: 2,847 Turnout: 58.8% | |||||||||
2017 City of Edinburgh Council election[10]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | Scott Douglas | 33.41% | 3,819 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Gillian Gloyer | 30.64% | 3,502 | ||||||
| SNP | Frank Ross (incumbent) | 21.65% | 2,474 | 2,503 | 2,566 | 2,577 | 2,680 | 2,956 | |
| Labour | June Whitelaw | 7.68% | 878 | 1,089 | 1,289 | 1,316 | 1,386 | 1,633 | |
| Scottish Green | Kate Nevens | 5.23% | 598 | 670 | 780 | 792 | 852 | ||
| Independent | John Ferguson Scott | 0.80% | 92 | 221 | 281 | 316 | |||
| UKIP | James Nisbet | 0.58% | 66 | 150 | 165 | ||||
| Electorate: 19,328 Valid: 11,429 Spoilt: 101 Quota: 2,858 Turnout: 11,530 (59.7%) | |||||||||
2012 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | Jeremy Balfour (incumbent) | 24.96% | 2,050 | 2,100 | |||||
| SNP | Frank Ross | 24.74% | 2,032 | 2,053 | 2,056 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Paul Edie (incumbent) | 21.77% | 1,788 | 1,798 | 1,817 | 1,818 | 1,993 | 2,798 | |
| Labour | Tom McInally | 20.45% | 1,679 | 1,698 | 1,702 | 1,702 | 1,884 | ||
| Scottish Green | Dominic Hinde | 6.11% | 502 | 526 | 530 | 530 | |||
| UKIP | James Nisbet | 1.96% | 161 | ||||||
| Electorate: 17,445 Valid: 8,212 Spoilt: 56 (0.68%) Quota: 2,054 Turnout: 8,268 (47.4%) | |||||||||
2007 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Conservative | Jeremy Balfour | 25.7 | 2,972 | |||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Paul Edie | 21.1 | 2,444 | 2,474.88 | 2,481.88 | 2,633.48 | 3,046.01 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Phil Wheeler | 16.6 | 1,915 | 1,927.83 | 1,936.87 | 2,054.48 | 2,459.35 | 2,578.54 | 3,536.57 | |
| Labour | Daniel Donaldson | 15.2 | 1,757 | 1,762.90 | 1,773.90 | 1,863.38 | 2,136.86 | 2,164.33 | ||
| SNP | Robin J A MacCormick | 14.9 | 1,727 | 1,734.77 | 1,750.92 | 1,852.76 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Charles Kennedy | 4.8 | 556 | 565.68 | 582.75 | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | Andrew Weir | 0.7 | 80 | 80.29 | ||||||
| Electorate: 17,531 Valid: 11,451 Spoilt: 119 Quota: 2,863 Turnout: 66.0% | ||||||||||
