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Cumnock and New Cumnock
East Ayrshire
Boundary of Cumnock and New Cumnock in East Ayrshire from 2007–2017.
Population	13,210 (2021)
Electorate	11,044 (2022)
Major settlements	Cumnock New Cumnock
Scottish Parliament constituency	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley
Scottish Parliament region	South Scotland
UK Parliament constituency	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock Kilmarnock and Loudon
Current ward
Created	2007 (2007)
Number of councillors	4
Councillor	Billy Crawford (Labour)
Councillor	Jim McMahon (SNP)
Councillor	June Kyle (Labour)
Councillor	Neill Watts (Conservative)
Created from	Auchinleck Cumnock East Cumnock West Dalmellington Drongan, Stair and Rankinston New Cumnock Mauchline Ochiltree, Skares, Netherthird and Craigens

Cumnock and New Cumnock is one of the nine electoral wards of East Ayrshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 13,210 people.

The area is a Labour stronghold with the party holding three of the four seats between in 2007 and 2017. Support for the party fell in 2017 with only one councillor elected but it recovered in 2022 and the party currently holds half the seats.

Boundaries

The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections. As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so Cumnock and New Cumnock was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained all of the former Cumnock East, Cumnock West, New Cumnock wards as well as part of the former Ochiltree, Skares, Netherthird and Craigen, Drongan, Stair and Rankinston, Auchinleck, Dalmellington and Mauchline wards. Cumnock and New Cumnock lies in the southeast of the council area next to its border with Dumfries and Galloway and takes in the towns of Cumnock, New Cumnock and Ochiltree. Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, the ward's boundaries were not changed.

Councillors

Election results

2022 election

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2017 election

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2012 election

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References

1. "Cumnock and New Cumnock". Scottish Government. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
2. "Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; East Ayrshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
3. "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; East Ayrshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
4. "Declaration of Results Report Ward 8 Cumnock and New Cumnock" (PDF). East Ayrshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
5. "Detailed Results Ward 8 Cumnock and New Cumnock" (PDF). East Ayrshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
6. "Detailed Results Report Ward 8 - Cumnock and New Cumnock" (PDF). East Ayrshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
7. "Declaration of Results Report Ward 8 Cumnock and New Cumnock" (PDF). East Ayrshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
8. "Detailed Results Ward 8 Cumnock and New Cumnock" (PDF). East Ayrshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
9. Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2007 - East Ayrshire". Retrieved 3 November 2022.

• Wards of East Ayrshire
• Cumnock
• New Cumnock