Falkirk Council elections: Lower Braes result

There will be two new faces and one familiar one as the three main political parties each retained one councillor to represent Lower Braes on Falkirk Council.

By Jill Buchanan

Published 6th May 2022, 17:58 BST

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Anne Hannah took the biggest share of the First Preference votes – 1393 – to become the Labour member.

New face for the SNP is Gordon Forrest who polled 1205 votes.

However, Adanna McCue who had been an SNP councillor failed to be re-elected with 825 votes.

Elected councillors for Lower Braes, Gordon Forrest, Anne Hannah and James Kerr.

James Kerr will once again be the Conservative councillor for Lower Braes after polling 1204 votes.

Other votes were:

Doug Sheehan (Green) 298

Ashley Ward (Lib Dems) 167

Scott Fallon (Alba) 67

There were 5238 votes case which gives a turnout of 43.6 per cent.

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