City of Edinburgh Council election, 2017

Main article: Scottish local elections, 2017

5 May 2017 (2017-05-05)

All 58 seats to City of Edinburgh Council 30 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader		Sandy Howat	Cameron Rose
Party	Labour	SNP	Conservative
Leader's seat		Meadows/Morningside	Southside/Newington
Last election	20 seats, 28.13%	12 seats, 26.87%	11 seats, 19.75%
Seats before	21	11	11

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Steve Burgess	Paul Edie
Party	Scottish Green	Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat	Southside/Newington	Corstorphine/Murrayfield
Last election	6 seats, 11.44%	3 seats, 5.17%
Seats before	5	2

Leader of the Council before election

Andrew Burns
Labour

Leader of the Council after election

TBD

The next Elections to the City of Edinburgh Council will be held on Thursday 5 May 2017, on the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. It will be the third successive Local Council election to run under the STV Electoral System.

Following the 2012 election a Labour-SNP coalition administration was formed.

2012 Results

City of Edinburgh Local Election Result 2012
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	20	6	1	5	34.48	28.13	39,286	5.45
	SNP	18	6	0	6	31.03	26.87	37,537	6.55
	Conservative	11	1	1	0	18.97	19.75	27,588	2.33
	Scottish Green	6	3	0	3	10.34	11.44	15,978	3.21
	Liberal Democrats	3	0	14	14	5.17	9.34	13,040	12.65
	Independent	0	-	-	-	-		2,565
	UKIP	0	-	-	-	-		480
	TUSC	0	-	-	-	-		463
	Liberal	0	-	-	-	-		368
	Scottish Socialist	0	-	-	-	-		228
	Pirate	0	-	-	-	-		195

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.

Retiring Councillors

Council Ward	Departing Councillor
Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart	Andrew Burns^[1]	Scottish Labour Party
Inverleith	Lesley Hinds^[2]	Scottish Labour Party
Sighthill/Gorgie	Eric Milligan	Scottish Labour Party
Corstorphine/Murrayfield	Jeremy Balfour	Scottish Conservative Party
Meadows/Morningside	Mark McInnes^[3]	Scottish Conservative Party
Corstorphine/Murrayfield	Paul Edie^[4]	Scottish Liberal Democrats

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Elections in Edinburgh

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Lothian Regional Council	1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994

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Referendums	2005

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