2017 Aberdeen City Council election


The 2017 Aberdeen City Council election took place on 4 May 2017 to elect members of Aberdeen City Council. The election used the 13 wards created as a result of the Local Governance Act 2004, with each ward electing three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation, with a total of 45 Councillors elected, an increase in 2 members from 2012.
On 11 May, the Scottish Liberal Democrats ruled out entering into a formal coalition and instead would "consider every issue before the council on its merits on a case-by-case basis."
On 17 May, an agreement was reached to form a coalition between the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, the Scottish Labour Party, and three Independent councillors. The Tories had 11 seats, Labour contributed 9 and there were 3 independent members. This was after councillor Jennifer Stewart resigned from the Liberal Democrat group to sit as an Independent and give the coalition an overall majority.
The coalition agreed by Aberdeen's Labour councillors was without the party executive's approval and so the councillors were told to withdraw from the deal by 5pm on 17 May or face suspension. The deadline passed without any change to the coalition and as such, all 9 Labour councillors were suspended from the party.
In August, the co-leadership was ratified by a meeting of the full council, appointing Douglas Lumsden & Jenny Laing as co-leaders.

Election results

Ward results

Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone

+ = Sitting Councillor for Midstocket/Rosemount Ward.

Changes between 2017 and 2022

‡ Changes of affiliation

On 17 May 2017, Cllr Jennifer Stewart resigned from the Liberal Democrat group and now sits as an Independent.
On the same day, all 9 Labour councillors were suspended from the party and now sit as "Aberdeen Labour". The issue was to be resolved after the Councils budget in February 2018 by the Labour Party's Scottish Executive Committee.