Lower Deeside (ward)

Lower Deeside
Aberdeen City Council
Boundary of Lower Deeside in Aberdeen from 2017.
Electorate	12,555
Current ward
Created	2007 (2007)
Councillor	Marie Boulton (Independent)
Councillor	Duncan Massey (Reform)
Councillor	M. Tauqeer Malik (Labour)

Lower Deeside is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeen City Council. It elects three Councillors.

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Marie Boulton (Ind.)		Aileen Malone (Liberal Democrats)		Alan Milne (Conservative)
2012			M. Tauqeer Malik (Labour)
2017				Philip Bell (Conservative)
2022	Duncan Massey (Conservative/Reform UK)
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Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Aberdeen City Council election

Lower Deeside – 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Labour	M. Tauqeer Malik (incumbent)	23.8	1,640	1,698	1,804
	Independent	Marie Boulton (incumbent)	21.7	1,496	1,524	1,622	1,651	1,733
	Conservative	Duncan Massey	17.3	1,194	1,197	1,232	1,242	2,009
	SNP	Ewan Ritchie	15.3	1,051	1,192	1,234	1,247	1,252
	Conservative	Gillian Tebberen	12.8	882	890	910	913
	Liberal Democrats	Sue Mulkerrin	4.6	316	363
	Green	Daniel Verhamme	4.5	307
Electorate: 12,555   Valid: 6,886   Spoilt: 84   Quota: 1,722   Turnout: 55.5%

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2017 election

2017 Aberdeen City Council election

Lower Deeside – 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Conservative	Philip Bell	39.8	2,714
	Independent	Marie Boulton (incumbent)	16.4	1,119	1,449.4	1,452.5	1,512	1,556.09	1,822.8
	Labour	M. Tauqeer Malik (incumbent)‡	15.3	1,040	1,155.5	1,165.09	1,211.1	1,241.6	1,447.9	1,497.3	1,976.8
	SNP	Pamela McBain	15.1	1,028	1,042.9	1,049.4	1,068.8	1,145.9	1,224.4	1,235.1
	Liberal Democrats	Ken McLeod	7.9	541	743.6	751.9	770.7	816.04
	Green	Nir Oren	2.9	195	209.5	213.3	223.8
	Independent	Kenneth Pratt	2.1	143	202.9	205.7
	Scottish Libertarian	Robbie Bowman	0.5	31	45.9
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 6,811   Spoilt: 52   Quota: 1,703   Turnout: 6,863 (57.7%)

2012 election

2012 Aberdeen City Council election

Lower Deeside - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	Marie Boulton (incumbent)	30.7%	1,520
	Liberal Democrats	Aileen Malone (incumbent)	15.3%	755	814.2	823.4	992.7	1,140.9	1,539.9
	Labour	M. Tauqeer Malik	15.0%	744	779	789.4	841.2	1,007.5	1,068.9
	Conservative	Raymond Murchie	14.4%	712	741.4	754.5	881.8	950.2
	SNP	Dorothy Janet McCaig	13.3%	659	677.4	684.9	739.4
	Independent	Peter Reiss	9.9%	490	568.6	621.3
	Independent	Andy Anderson	1.3%	64	94.7
Electorate: 11,301   Valid: 4,944   Spoilt: 33   Quota: 1,237   Turnout: 4,977 (43.75%)

2007 election

2007 Aberdeen City Council election

Lower Deeside - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Liberal Democrats	Aileen Malone	23.9	1,536	1,660
	Conservative	Alan Milne††††	24.0	1,546	1,588	1,592	1,745
	Independent	Marie Boulton	17.1	1,097	1,173	1,176	1,353	1,399
	SNP	David Adams	16.6	1,068	1,125	1,127	1,234	1,253
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Malone	9.4	603	692	726
	Labour	Marianne Stewart	9.1	583
Electorate:     Valid: 6,435   Spoilt: 69   Quota: 1,609   Turnout: 6,504