Kirkintilloch East and North and Twechar is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the

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. It elects three Councillors. The current entity was technically created in 2017 following a boundary review, but has largely the same boundaries as the 2007 ''Kirkintilloch East and Twechar'' ward, which as its name suggests encompassed the eastern parts of Kirkintilloch (neighbourhoods between the

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and the Luggie Water, including Harestanes, Hillhead, Merkland and Waterside) and the separate village of

Twechar Twechar is a small former mining village historically in Dunbartonshire and administered by the council area of East Dunbartonshire, Scotland close to the boundary with North Lanarkshire. It lies between the larger towns of Cumbernauld, Kilsyth ...

further east, up to the boundary with Kilsyth and

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. The 2017 amendments involved the addition of the Kirkintilloch neighbourhoods north of the canal / along the

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from the defunct ''Campsie & Kirkintilloch North'' ward with the name also altered to reflect this, although the number of representatives did not change. In 2020, the ward population was 18,251.Electoral Ward Kirkintilloch East and North and Twechar
Scottish Government Statistics. Retrieved 17 April 2022

Councillors

Election results

2022 election

2022 East Dunbartonshire Council election The East Dunbartonshire Council election of 2022 was held on 5 May 2022, the same day as the 31 other 2022 Scottish local elections, Scottish local government elections. Each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable ...

2017 election

2017 East Dunbartonshire Council election Elections to East Dunbartonshire Council were held on Thursday 4 May, the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. The election used seven wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, a reduction of one from 2012 ...

2012 election

2012 East Dunbartonshire Council election Elections to East Dunbartonshire Council were held on 3 May 2012, the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. The election used the eight wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 24 Councillors being el ...

2007 election

2007 East Dunbartonshire Council election Elections to East Dunbartonshire Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. This election was the first to use eight new multi-member wards crea ...

References

{{Wards of East Dunbartonshire Wards of East Dunbartonshire Kirkintilloch