Aberdeen City: Midstocket/Rosemount ward

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Before anyone asks for your vote: what the official record says about the ground around this area — housing sites, schools, protected areas, air quality — and who represents you now.

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Boundary: ONS Open Geography Portal (Open Government Licence). Map tiles: OpenStreetMap.

Who represents you now

Councillors for Midstocket/Rosemount, as recorded after the May 2026 elections:

Jennifer Bonsell, Labour Party
Bill Cormie, Scottish National Party (SNP)
Emma Farquhar, Conservative and Unionist
Lynn Thomson, Labour Party

This by-election fills a seat that has fallen vacant since then, so one of those listed may no longer hold it.

Across the whole of Aberdeen City council (45 seats in 2026): Conservative 6, Labour 11, Liberal Democrat 3, Reform UK 1, SNP 19, Other 5. Run by: a coalition or arrangement of SNP and Liberal Democrats.

Councillors and council make-up from Open Council Data (public domain). The council's own website lists current councillors and how to contact them.

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Aberdeen City: Midstocket/Rosemount ward in numbers

Official open data about the area. It describes the place, not you, and it favours no candidate.

People claiming unemployment-related benefits

380 people in Midstocket/Rosemount ward, 3.6% of residents aged 16–64, against 3.2% across Scotland (August 2026).

Claimant count, Office for National Statistics via Nomis (Open Government Licence). It counts people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while required to seek work; it is not the same as the unemployment rate.

Recorded crime nearby, July 2026

0 street-level crimes recorded within about a mile of the area's centre.

Source: data.police.uk (Open Government Licence). Centroid of the ONS 2024 boundary. Statistics near this point describe the area, not any household. Recorded crime reflects reporting and policing as well as offending; see the ONS guidance in further reading.

Past elections in this ward

Every recorded council election here since 2006, most recent first. Elected candidates in bold. Past results describe the past; each election is a new contest.

2022 — Scottish National Party (SNP), Conservative and Unionist Party, Labour Party elected · turnout 43%

Bill Cormie	Scottish National Party (SNP)	1,264
Emma Farquhar	Conservative and Unionist Party	1,150
Jennifer Bonsell	Labour Party	1,007
William MacKenzie	Scottish National Party (SNP)	507
Alex Jarvis	Green Party	435
William Sell	Liberal Democrats	326

2017 — Conservative and Unionist Party, Scottish National Party (SNP), Labour Party elected

Tom Mason	Conservative and Unionist Party	1,318
Bill Cormie	Scottish National Party (SNP)	1,195
Jenny Laing	Labour Party	935
Derek Edward Davidson	Scottish National Party (SNP)	398
Dustin Macdonald	Independent Berwick Hills Resident	311
Alex Jarvis	Green Party	256
William Sell	Liberal Democrats	245
Bill Robb	Independent Berwick Hills Resident	97

2012 — Labour Party, Scottish National Party (SNP), Conservative and Unionist Party elected

Jenny Laing	Labour Party	1,247
Bill Cormie	Scottish National Party (SNP)	1,233
Fraser Forsyth	Conservative and Unionist Party	531
Iolanda Serci	Scottish National Party (SNP)	264
William Sell	Liberal Democrats	245
John McCallum	Green Party	245
Patrick McGuire	Independent	82

2007 — Conservative and Unionist Party, Scottish National Party (SNP), Labour Party elected

John Porter	Conservative and Unionist Party	1,503
Bill Cormie	Scottish National Party (SNP)	1,431
Jenny Laing	Labour Party	1,144
Steve Delaney	Liberal Democrats	671
Jim Donaldson	Liberal Democrats	529
Christine Chandler	Scottish Socialist Party	153

Source: DCLEAPIL v1.0 British local election results 2006–2024, by Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's Local Elections Archive Project and Democracy Club (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0). Where a ward's boundaries changed, earlier results were for a somewhat different area.

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