00:00There is one councillor to be elected. The election was 13,528 and the number of ballot papers received
00:10was 3,365 giving a percentage turnout of 24.9%. There were 36 rejected ballot papers.
00:22The quota of votes for a candidate to be elected was 1,665.
00:30The number of first preference votes for each of the candidates was as follows.
00:51Conservative and Unionist, 488. Stuart Martin, Reform UK, 330.
01:02Sean McKay, Scottish Liberal Democrats, 119.
01:08Sharon McKean, Independent, 184. Tom Goughan, Scottish Greens, 1,000.
01:17Sorry, Labour Party, 151.
01:25After application of the election rules, I declare that the following is elected as
01:30councillor for Ward 7, Falkirk Centre. Clare Aitken, Scottish Labour Party,
01:36elected at the 7th stage.
02:07Matthew, my election agent.
02:11Robin, my campaign manager.
02:15Sam, who has helped me out immensely.
02:22They've been a fantastic support and I'd like to thank my daughters who really were my inspiration
02:27for this and I don't know if it's now Friday morning but I cannot wait to get started so
02:33thank you everybody who's put their faith in me.
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