LABOUR and the SNP both celebrated strong results in the Tranent, Wallyford and Macmerry ward, winning two councillors each at the expense of the Conservatives.
The Labour pair of Fiona Dugdale and Colin McGinn both retained their seats, as did the SNP’s Kenny McLeod, while party colleague Lee-Anne Menzies unseated the Conservatives’ Gordon Mackett despite finishing behind him on first-preference votes.
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Marnie Stirling, the Greens’ first ever candidate in the ward, finished best of the smaller parties, well ahead of the Liberal Democrats’ Elisabeth Wilson, with Jimmy Haddow of the Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition just finishing ahead of the ALBA Party’s candidate Hazel Hamilton.
The breakdown of first-preference votes for the Tranent, Wallyford and Macmerry ward was as follows:
Fiona Dugdale (Labour): 1,437
Kenny McLeod (SNP): 1,307
Colin McGinn (Labour): 1,290
Gordon Mackett (Conservative): 804
Lee-Anne Menzies (SNP): 666
Marnie Stirling (Greens): 245
Elisabeth Wilson (Lib Dem): 127
Jimmy Haddow (STUSC): 57
Hazel Hamilton (ALBA): 51
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