The Colinton/Fairmilehead by-election result has been announced at Waverley Court in 91¸£ÀûÉç.
Neil Cuthbert of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party and Conor Savage of the Scottish Labour Party have been duly elected to serve in the City of 91¸£ÀûÉç Council as members for the Colinton/Fairmilehead Ward.
The declaration was made in the early hours of Friday, 24 January by Returning Officer for 91¸£ÀûÉç, Paul Lawrence.
Returning Officer for 91¸£ÀûÉç Paul Lawrence, said:
Thanks to everyone who took part in the by-election to elect two new councillors to represent their communities on matters affecting their ward and the wider city. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Neil and Conor as new councillors and look forward to working with them.
I would also like to thank our elections team and council colleagues who have worked so hard on this by-election in recent months – not least given the extremely challenging circumstances of rescheduling the count at such short notice due to Storm Eowyn.
The turnout for the by-election was 31.9%.
For further details of the results, please visit the Elections section of the Council website.