Inverclyde Central is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the Inverclyde Council. It elects three Councillors.
The ward includes eastern parts of the town of Greenock, with neighbourhoods such as Bridgend, Cartsdyke, Ladyburn, Overton and Strone, plus parts of the town centre (south of the Inverclyde Line railway tracks, east of Bank Street, south of Wellington Street and east of Broomhill Street).[2] In 2019, the ward had a population of 11,926.[3]
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Jim McEleny (SNP) |
Michael McCormick (Labour) |
Colin Jackson (Labour) | |||||
| 2022 | Pam Armstrong (SNP) | |||||||
2022 Inverclyde Council election[4][circular reference]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Pam Armstrong | 968 | ||||||
| Labour | Michael McCormick (incumbent) | 753 | ||||||
| Labour | Colin Jackson (incumbent) | 599 | 617.26 | 651.09 | 675.42 | 782.88 | ||
| SNP | Agnes McAuley | 231 | 450.44 | 452.03 | 509.05 | 516.11 | ||
| Conservative | Ian Bryson | 169 | 170.07 | 171.09 | 176.36 | |||
| Alba | Jim McEleny (incumbent) | 108 | 115.79 | 117.82 | ||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 2,828 Spoilt: 108 Quota: 708 Turnout: 2,936 | ||||||||
2017 Inverclyde Council election[5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Jim McEleny | 32.5 | 973 | |||||
| Labour | Michael McCormick * | 32.4 | 970 | |||||
| Labour | Colin Jackson | 14.53 | 435 | 443.52 | 600.95 | 622.37 | 751.33 | |
| Conservative | Ian Bryson | 9.22 | 276 | 276.92 | 280.57 | 302.93 | ||
| SNP | Jayne Peberdy | 8.52 | 255 | 452.29 | 464.59 | 477.97 | 489.66 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Kenny Shepherd * | 2.84 | 85 | 87.3 | 94.36 | |||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 2,994 Spoilt: 128 Quota: 749 Turnout: 3,122 (41.1%) | ||||||||
