Drum Brae/Gyle 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.
The ward covers an area in the far west of the city, bounded generally by Corstorphine Hill, the Queensferry Road (A90), Maybury Road (A902) and Edinburgh City Bypass (A720) roads, and the Glasgow–Edinburgh via Falkirk line railway; it includes the Bughtlin, Clermiston, Clerwood, Craigmount, Drumbrae, East Craigs, Gogarloch, Maybury, North Gyle, Parkgrove, South Gyle and West Craigs neighbourhoods,[3] as well as the Edinburgh Park commercial district. A minor boundary change in 2017 caused the loss of the Wester Broom neighbourhood and the addition of Forrester with a negligible effect on the population, which in 2019 stood at 23,534.[4]
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Colin Keir (SNP) |
Robert Aldridge (Liberal Democrats) |
Jenny Dawe (Liberal Democrats) | |||||
| 2012 | Ron Cairns (SNP) |
Karen Keil (Labour) | ||||||
| 2017 | Claire Bridgman (SNP) |
Mark Brown (Conservative) | ||||||
| 2022 | Euan Hyslop (SNP) |
Edward John Thornley (Liberal Democrats) | ||||||
2022 City of Edinburgh Council election[5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Christopher Aldridge (incumbent) | 42.2% | 3,988 | |||||
| SNP | Euan Hyslop | 23.9% | 2,263 | 2,345 | 2,349 | 2,355 | 2,655 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Edward John Thornley | 9.6% | 909 | 2,074 | 2,079 | 2,089 | 2,213 | |
| Conservative | Mark Brown (incumbent) | 11.1% | 1,047 | 1,232 | 1,235 | 1,266 | 1,283 | |
| Labour | Nkechi Okoro | 6.2% | 587 | 659 | 661 | 671 | 772 | |
| Scottish Green | Anne Scott | 5.9% | 554 | 595 | 599 | 616 | ||
| Scottish Family | Eileen Johnston | 0.8% | 79 | 88 | 94 | |||
| Scottish Libertarian | Gary Smith | 0.3% | 24 | 29 | ||||
| Electorate: 18,822 Valid: 9,451 Spoilt: 109 Quota: 2,363 Turnout: 50.8% | ||||||||
2017 City of Edinburgh Council election[6]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Christopher Aldridge (incumbent) | 33.5% | 3,176 | ||
| SNP | Claire Bridgman | 26.8% | 2,541 | ||
| Conservative | Mark Brown | 22.0% | 2,084 | 2,411 | |
| Labour | Karen Ann Keil (incumbent) | 13.3% | 1,262 | 1,483 | |
| Scottish Green | Phyl Meyer | 4.3% | 411 | 521 | |
| Electorate: 18,321 Valid: 9,474 Spoilt: 82 Quota: 2,369 Turnout: 52.2% | |||||
On 17 July 2018, SNP councillor Claire Bridgman resigned from the party for undisclosed reasons and became an Independent.[7]
2012 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Labour | Karen Keil | 26.46% | 1,981 | ||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Aldridge (incumbent) | 18.77% | 1,405 | 1,425 | 1,431 | 1,490 | 1,636 | 1,695 | 1,735 | 2,312 | |
| SNP | Ron Cairns * | 18.34% | 1,373 | 1,383 | 1,386 | 1,406 | 1,466 | 2,052 | |||
| Conservative | Mark Brown | 16.04% | 1,201 | 1,207 | 1,212 | 1,233 | 1,349 | 1,370 | 1,383 | ||
| SNP | Alison Lindsay | 8.66% | 648 | 657 | 661 | 699 | 750 | ||||
| Independent | Steven Binney | 6.92% | 518 | 532 | 588 | 663 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Linda Hendry | 3.62% | 271 | 285 | 296 | ||||||
| Independent | John Scott | 1.20% | 90 | 95 | |||||||
| Electorate: 17,123 Valid: 7,487 Spoilt: 78 Quota: 1,872 Turnout: 7,565 (44.2%) | |||||||||||
2007 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Aldridge | 25.2 | 2,630 | ||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Jenny Dawe | 19.6 | 2,049 | 2,078.99 | 2,100.27 | 2,113.31 | 2,234.21 | 2,702.55 | |||
| SNP | Colin G Keir | 18.4 | 1,917 | 1,920.20 | 1,939.32 | 1,956.32 | 2,018.71 | 2,263.43 | 2,287.23 | 2,725.43 | |
| Conservative | Steven Binney | 16.1 | 1,676 | 1,679.60 | 1,684.67 | 1,687.67 | 1,716.86 | 1,865.21 | 1,889.87 | ||
| Labour | Cameron Day | 14.8 | 1,545 | 1,549.01 | 1,559.12 | 1,576.19 | 1,631.28 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Fiona A Paterson | 3.2 | 330 | 331.94 | 337.99 | 361.09 | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | Iain Pendreich | 0.8 | 88 | 88.24 | 89.26 | ||||||
| Liberal | Roy Isserlis | 0.8 | 85 | 85.84 | |||||||
| Electorate: 17,364 Valid: 10,320 Spoilt: 113 Quota: 2,581 Turnout: 60.1% | |||||||||||
