Irvine West is one of the nine
wards
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used to elect members of the
North Ayrshire Council
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. Created in 1980, Irvine West was originally a single-member
first-past-the-post
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ward before it was expanded in 2007 to become a multi-member ward which elects four councillors using the
single transferable vote
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electoral system and covers an area with a population of 14,972 people.
Boundaries
Irvine West was created by the Initial Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements in 1979 as one of the 30 wards of
Cunninghame District Council. The original boundaries took in the western part of
Irvine Irvine may refer to:
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*Irvine Glacier
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*Irvine Island
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on the
Firth of Clyde
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coast up to the
River Garnock
The River Garnock ( gd, Gairneag / Abhainn Ghairneig), the smallest of Ayrshire's six principal rivers, has its source on the southerly side of the Hill of Stake in the heart of the Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park. About a mile and a half south of t ...
and included the abandoned Snodgrass Village and
Bogside Racecourse
Bogside Racecourse was a horse racing track situated in Irvine, Scotland, on the banks of the River Irvine. Its first meeting was held on 7 June 1808, and its last on 10 April 1965, although there is evidence of an event known as the Irvine M ...
. There were minor changes to the boundaries following the Second Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements in 1994 which saw the ward's southern boundary extended south to the council's border with
Kyle and Carrick District Council to include the Dundonald Links golf course. After the implementation of the
Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994
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It abolished the two-tie ...
, the boundaries proposed by the second review became the Formation Electoral Arrangements for the newly created
North Ayrshire Council
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– a unitary authority for the area previously under Cunninghame District Council. Further minor alterations saw the ward's northeastern boundary moved east following the Third Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements in 1998 to run along Kilwinning Road.
As a result of the
Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004
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The Commissi ...
, council elections would be run under the
single transferable vote
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and new multi-member wards would be introduced. As a result, Irvine West was combined with other wards covering Irvine. The former
Irvine North,
Irvine Townhead and
Irvine Vineburgh and Woodlands South were completely subsumed and a small area from both of the former
Irvine Landward and
Woodlands North and Girdle Toll wards were added. The new boundaries would cover everything west of the
A78 plus the south-eastern industrial area around
Drybridge
Drybridge is a small village in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Drybridge is thus named because of the "dry bridge" over the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, opened in 1812. The nearby "wet bridge" is the Laigh Milton Viaduct, the oldest surviving railway ...
and Shewalton. The Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements saw the ward's area reduced as a new
Irvine South ward was created. As a result, territory west of the
River Irvine
The River Irvine ( gd, Irbhinn) is a river that flows through southwest Scotland. Its watershed is on the Lanarkshire border of Ayrshire at an altitude of above sea-level, near Loudoun Hill, Drumclog Moss, Drumclog, and SW by W of Strathaven. I ...
including the abandoned Bogside Racecourse, the
Fullarton
Fullarton is a small area in Irvine, North Ayrshire. It is situated close to Irvine Bay and is next to several industrial estates, large supermarkets and retail stores and the town centre itself. Stagecoach Western buses operate the local bus s ...
area of Irvine, and everything south of the
A71 was transferred to Irvine South. Despite the changes, which saw the ward's area halved, Irvine West retained four councillors. The ward's boundaries were unchanged following the 2019 Reviews of Electoral Arrangements.
Councillors
Election results
2022 election
2017 election
2016 by-election
2012 election
2007 election
Notes
References
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Wards of North Ayrshire
Irvine, North Ayrshire