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Elections to North Ayrshire Council took place on 4 May 2017 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections.
The election used the ten wards created as a result of the Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements, with each ward electing three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation, with 33 Councillors being elected.
After the election, the Labour Party took control of the authority as a minority administration with outgoing council Leader Joe Cullinane being reappointed.[1][2]
Election result
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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| SNP | 11 | 2 | 3 |  1
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33.3 | 35.2 | 16,644 | 0.4
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| Labour | 11 | 2 | 2 | 
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33.3 | 26.1 | 12,320 | 5.3
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| Conservative | 7 | 6 | 0 |  6
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21.2 | 23.5 | 11,099 | 14.2
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| Independent | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2
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12.1 | 13.0 | 6,130 | 6.0
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| Scottish Green | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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0.0 | 0.9 | 439 | New | |
| No Referendum Maintain Union Pro-Brexit | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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0.0 | 0.5 | 238 | New | |
| Scottish Socialist | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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0.0 | 0.3 | 165 | 0.5
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| UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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0.0 | 0.2 | 106 | 0.3
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| Socialist Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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0.0 | 0.2 | 76 | 0.9
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| TUSC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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0.0 | 0.1 | 42 |
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| Total | 33 | 47,259 | |||||||
Source: [3]
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007. There were three more seats in this election than the previous and, as a result, this may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.
Ward results
Irvine West
Labour retained both their seats while the SNP retained one seat and lost one seat to the Conservatives.