Pentland Hills (ward)

Location of the ward within Edinburgh (pre-2017 boundaries)

Pentland Hills is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council. Established in 2007 along with the other wards, it mainly covers the villages and suburban developments in the south-west hinterland beyond the A720 Edinburgh city bypass road (Baberton, Balerno, Currie, Juniper Green and Ratho, plus the campus of Heriot-Watt University), up to the boundaries with West Lothian, Midlothian and a small border with the Scottish Borders at the edge of the Pentland Hills.

Initially electing three councillors, within the bypass it covered the Kingsknowe neighbourhood and the southern part of the Wester Hailes housing scheme plus its smaller neighbour Clovenstone; the boundaries were redrawn for the 2017 election, losing Kingsknowe but gaining the northern part of Wester Hailes plus the Calders area, with the population increasing and four councillors being returned. In 2019, the ward had a population of 32,703.

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Ronald Cairns (SNP)		Alastair S Paisley (Conservative)		Ricky Henderson (Labour)	3 seats
2012	Bill Henderson (SNP)	Dominic Heslop (Conservative)
2017	Neil Gardiner (SNP)	Graeme Bruce (Conservative)		Sue Webber (Conservative)
2022			Stephen Philip Jenkinson (Labour)		Fiona Glasgow (SNP)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 City of Edinburgh Council election

Pentland Hills - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Conservative	Graeme Bruce (incumbent)	22.8	2,531
	SNP	Neil Thomas Gardiner (incumbent)	21.3	2,360
	Labour	Stephen Philip Jenkinson	17.1	1,896	1,911	1,917	1,918	1,944	2,155	2,632
	Conservative	Emma Gilchrist	11.2	1,239	1,482	1,484	1,487	1,532	1,558	1,760	1,827
	SNP	Fiona Glasgow	10.1	1,115	1,121	1,236	1,239	1,254	1,674	1,755	1,841	1,994
	Liberal Democrats	Michael William Chappell	8.0	885	909	911	918	940	1,094
	Scottish Green	Ross Muller	7.8	870	875	883	890	908
	Scottish Family	Richard Fettes	1.4	159	165	166	172
	Scottish Libertarian	Louis Rowlands	0.3	32	32	33
Electorate: 24,312   Valid: 11,087   Spoilt: 179   Quota: 2,218   Turnout: 46.3%

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2017 election

2017 City of Edinburgh Council election

Pentland Hills - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2
	Conservative	Graeme Bruce	27.2%	3,083
	SNP	Neil Gardiner	21.1%	2,382
	Labour	Ricky Henderson (incumbent)	20.6%	2,334
	Conservative	Susan Webber	14.0%	1,587	2,293
	SNP	Ernesta Noreikiene	7.8%	880	888
	Liberal Democrats	Emma Farthing	4.9%	560	608
	Scottish Green	Evelyn Weston	4.3%	489	499
Electorate: 22,920   Valid: 11,315   Spoilt: 262   Quota: 2,264   Turnout: 50.5%

2012 election

2012 City of Edinburgh Council election

Pentland Hills - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SNP	Bill Henderson	29.16%	2,317
	Labour	Ricky Henderson (incumbent)	28.85%	2,293
	Conservative	Dominic Heslop	15.09%	1,199	1,224	1,249	1,335	1,397	1,502	2,446
	Conservative	Shelia Low	12.61%	1,002	1,017	1,040	1,099	1,154	1,240
	Scottish Green	Phyl Meyer	4.05%	322	400	468	607	840
	Independent	Mike 'Professor Pongoo' Ferrigan	5.59%	444	491	531	590
	Liberal Democrats	Stuart Bridges	4.66%	370	414	462
Electorate: 18,002   Valid: 7,947   Spoilt: 51   Quota: 1,987   Turnout: 7,998 (44.4%)

2007 election

2007 City of Edinburgh Council election

2007 Council election: Pentland Hills

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Conservative	Alastair S. Paisley	22.9	2,523	2,532	2,536	2,565	2,718	4,401
	SNP	Ronald Cairns	20.3	2,238	2,247	2,274	2,374	2,661	2,789
	Labour	Ricky Henderson	19.5	2,148	2,161	2,181	2,263	2,663	2,798
	Conservative	Andy MacIver	18.8	2,074	2,081	2,084	2,113	2,285
	Liberal Democrats	Iain J. Coleman	11.4	1,255	1,281	1,299	1,471
	Scottish Green	Shonagh McEwan	4.3	479	488	518
	Scottish Socialist	Alister H. Black	1.1	116	117
	Liberal	Irvine McMinn	0.9	94
Electorate: 17,390   Valid: 10,927   Spoilt: 104   Quota: 2,732   Turnout: 62.83%

External links

• Listed Buildings in Pentland Hills Ward, City of Edinburgh at British Listed Buildings