Craigentinny/Duddingston 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 four Councillors.
The ward's territory lies to the east of the city centre, with the Firth of Forth providing its eastern boundary and Holyrood Park occupying most of its western half. As its name suggests, it covers the communities of Craigentinny and Duddingston, as well as Jock's Lodge, Lochend, Meadowbank, Meadowfield, Mountcastle, Northfield, Piershill, Restalrig and Willowbrae.[3] Originally returning three members, a minor boundary change in 2017 saw the loss of Abbeyhill, Dumbiedykes and Durham neighbourhoods to three other adjoining wards; however the population increased slightly due to the addition of streets south of Restalrig Railway Path (including two tower blocks) and housebuilding in other areas, and due to this an additional councillor was allocated. In 2019, the ward had a population of 29,927.[4]
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Gary J Peacock (Liberal Democrats) |
Stefan Tymkewycz (SNP) |
Ewan Aitken (Labour) |
3 seats | ||||
| 2012 | Alex Lunn (Labour) |
Joan Griffiths (Labour) | ||||||
| 2017 | Alex Staniforth (Greens) |
Ian Campbell (SNP) |
John McLellan (Conservative) | |||||
| 2020 by | Ethan Young (SNP) | |||||||
| 2022 | Danny Aston (SNP) |
Ian Whyte (Conservative) | ||||||
2022 City of Edinburgh Council election[5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Labour | Joan Griffiths (incumbent) | 20.6% | 2,136 | |||||
| SNP | Danny Aston | 20.6% | 2,129 | |||||
| Conservative | Ian Whyte[a] | 19.4% | 2,011 | 2,020 | 2,020 | 2,198 | ||
| Scottish Green | Alex Staniforth (incumbent) | 16.5% | 1,706 | 1,719 | 1,723 | 1,938 | 1,956 | |
| SNP | Shelly-Ann Brown | 16.2% | 1,674 | 1,682 | 1,732 | 1,833 | 1,838 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Elaine Ruth Ford | 6.7% | 697 | 716 | 717 | |||
| Electorate: 23,924 Valid: 10,353 Spoilt: 215 Quota: 2,071 Turnout: 44.2% | ||||||||
2017 City of Edinburgh Council election[6]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Conservative | John McLellan | 23.7 | 2,521 | ||||||||
| SNP | Ian Campbell | 23.1 | 2,458 | ||||||||
| Labour Co-op | Joan Griffiths (incumbent) | 17.4 | 1,845 | 1,910.2 | 1,928.9 | 2,095.5 | 2,124.2 | 2,727.4 | |||
| Scottish Green | Alex Staniforth | 11.7 | 1,244 | 1,266.8 | 1,286.6 | 1,427.3 | 1,579.3 | 1,623.6 | 1,785.8 | 2,656.4 | |
| SNP | Alex Lunn (incumbent, elected as Labour) | 7.6 | 813 | 819.4 | 1,049.4 | 1,076.3 | 1,602.6 | 1,615.5 | 1,675.8 | ||
| SNP | Mridul Wadhwa | 6.3 | 674 | 676.8 | 716.8 | 731.4 | |||||
| Labour Co-op | Lyndsay Martin | 5.9 | 627 | 660.6 | 665.6 | 740.5 | 747.2 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Patrick Hadfield | 4.2 | 448 | 548.6 | 554.9 | ||||||
| Electorate: 22,793 Valid: 10,630 Spoilt: 262 Quota: 2,127 Turnout: 10,892 | |||||||||||
On 21 February 2020, SNP councillor Ian Campbell stood down for health reasons. A by-election was held on 12 November 2020 and was won by the SNP's Ethan Young.[7]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | Ethan Young | 38.9 | 2,920 | 2,924 | 2,936 | 3,004 | 3,716 | 3,818 | |
| Conservative | Eleanor Price | 18.9 | 1,420 | 1,428 | 1,448 | 1,582 | 1,620 | ||
| Labour | Margaret Graham | 16.1 | 1,205 | 1,205 | 1,216 | 1,359 | 1,682 | 2,085 | |
| Scottish Green | Benjamin Parker | 15.8 | 1,185 | 1,189 | 1,203 | 1,340 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Elaine Ford | 8.4 | 631 | 634 | 647 | ||||
| Independent | Andrew McDonald | 1.2 | 93 | 100 | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | Tam Laird | 0.6 | 42 | ||||||
| Electorate: 23,972 Valid: 7,496 Spoilt: 86 Quota: 3,749 Turnout: 31.6 | |||||||||
2012 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Stefan Tymkewycz (incumbent) | 25.8% | 2180 | ||||||||
| Labour | Joan Griffiths | 25.7% | 2174 | ||||||||
| SNP | Colin Williamson | 11.1% | 937 | 989 | 991 | 1008 | 1138 | 1260 | 1354 | ||
| Labour | Alex Lunn | 10.5% | 886 | 887 | 935 | 954 | 1080 | 1261 | 1430 | 1740 | |
| Conservative | Jason Lingiah | 10.2% | 866 | 867 | 868 | 877 | 911 | 1080 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Gary Peacock (incumbent) | 8.0% | 673 | 675 | 677 | 688 | 836 | ||||
| Scottish Green | John Palmer | 7.0% | 590 | 592 | 594 | 661 | |||||
| TUSC | Kevin Furguson | 1.8% | 150 | 150 | 151 | ||||||
| Electorate: 18,871 Valid: 8,456 Spoilt: 212 Quota: 2115 Turnout: 45.9% | |||||||||||
2007 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||
| Labour | Ewan Aitken | 29.2 | 3,487 | |||||||||||
| SNP | Stefan Tymkewycz | 29.2 | 3,484 | |||||||||||
| Conservative | Victoria Roberts | 14.4 | 1,720 | 1,741.18 | 1,787.05 | 1,793.61 | 1,795.76 | 1,809.50 | 1,828.19 | 1,843.14 | 1,899.42 | 1,966.96 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Gary J Peacock | 10.0 | 1,190 | 1,228.77 | 1,308.59 | 1,318.99 | 1,323.01 | 1,341.42 | 1,413.95 | 1,447.78 | 1,607.02 | 2,087.98 | 2,706.74 | |
| Scottish Green | Stan Blackley | 5.9 | 701 | 741.64 | 819.14 | 824.00 | 854.96 | 884.39 | 913.46 | 1,012.66 | 1,184.22 | |||
| Labour | Shami Khan | 5.0 | 600 | 881.07 | 922.61 | 938.21 | 938.21 | 948.23 | 963.96 | 989.98 | ||||
| Solidarity | Kevin Connor | 1.6 | 187 | 203.66 | 242.56 | 246.81 | 272.77 | 279.48 | 294.89 | |||||
| Liberal | Peter McDougall | 1.3 | 152 | 163.06 | 192.81 | 196.90 | 202.46 | 215.01 | ||||||
| Independent | Jet Cameron | 0.8 | 100 | 107.63 | 118.63 | 149.00 | 152.24 | |||||||
| Scottish Socialist | Nick Eardley | 0.7 | 82 | 89.79 | 105.59 | 107.06 | ||||||||
| Independent | John Wallace | 0.6 | 69 | 75.23 | 89.95 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 19,693 Valid: 11,772 Spoilt: 169 Quota: 2,944 Turnout: 60.6% | ||||||||||||||
