East Ayrshire Aest Ayrshire Siorrachd Inbhir Àir an Ear
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Location
Geography
Area	Ranked 14th
- Total	1,262 km2 (487 sq mi)
- % Water	?
Admin HQ	Kilmarnock
ISO 3166-2	GB-EAY
ONS code	00QK
Demographics
Population	Ranked 16th
- Total (2008)	119,900
- Density	95 /km2 (246 /sq mi)
Politics
East Ayrshire Council http://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/
Control	Scottish National Party (minority control)
MPs	Des Browne Sandra Osborne
MSPs	Willie Coffey Cathy Jamieson

East Ayrshire (Scots: Cooncil o Aest Ayrshire, Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir an Ear) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders onto North Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire, South Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway. With South Ayrshire and the mainland areas of North Ayrshire, it formed the former county of Ayrshire.

The area was formed in 1996, from the former Kilmarnock and Loudoun and Cumnock and Doon Valley districts. Kilmarnock is the largest town in East Ayrshire.

Contents 1 Main towns 1.1 HQ 1.2 Twin towns (Kilmarnock) 2 Towns and villages 2.1 Places of interest 3 Education 3.1 Secondary education 4 Councillors 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Main towns

Kilmarnock is the largest town; other small main towns are New Cumnock and Cumnock.

[edit] HQ

The HQ for East Ayrshire Council is located on London Road Kilmarnock

[edit] Twin towns (Kilmarnock)

• Alès, France.
• Herstal, Belgium.
• Kulmbach, Germany.
• Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain.
• Sukhumi, Georgia.

[edit] Towns and villages

Afton Bridgend Auchinleck Catrine Chapeltoun Corsehill Craigmalloch Cumnock Dalmellington Dalrymple Darvel Drongan Dunlop

Galston Gatehead Glenbuck Greenholm Hurlford Kilmarnock Kilmaurs Knockentiber Lugton Mauchline Muirkirk Netherthird

New Cumnock Newmilns Ochiltree Patna Polnessan Priestland Riccarton Sorn Stair Stewarton Trabboch

[edit] Places of interest

• Loch Doon
• Scottish Industrial Railway Centre
• Sorn Castle
• Stair House
• Dean Castle

[edit] Education

[edit] Secondary education

Auchinleck Academy
Kilmarnock Academy
Grange Academy
Loudoun Academy
Cumnock Academy
James Hamilton Academy
Doon Academy
St Joseph's RC Academy
Stewarton Academy

[edit] Councillors

Party		Members
		2007	2009
•	SNP	14	14
	Labour	14	15
•	Conservative	3	3
•	Independent	1	0

• Denotes party which forms or supports the administration.

Ward	Councillors	Party
Annick	Rose Ann Cunnighame		Conservative
	John MacKay		SNP
	John McGhee		Labour
Kilmarnock North	Helen Coffey		SNP
	Willie Coffey		SNP
	Maureen McKay		Labour
Kilmarnock West & Crosshouse	Tom Cook		Conservative
	Robert Keohone		Labour
	Iain Linton		SNP
	Douglas Reid		SNP
Kilmarnock East & Hurlford	Jim Buchannan		SNP
	John Campbell		SNP
	Gordon Cree		Labour
	Drew McIntyre		Labour
Kilmarnock South	John Krapp		Labour
	Hugh Ross		SNP
	Jim Todd		SNP
Irvine Valley	Allan Brown		SNP
	Stuart Finlayson		Labour
	Bobby McDill		SNP
	Stephanie Young		Conservative
Ballochmyle	Jimmy Kelly		Labour
	Neil McGhee		Labour
	Jim Roberts		SNP
	David Shaw		Labour
Cumnock and New Cumnock	William Crawford		Labour
	William Menzies		Labour
	Kathy Morrice		SNP
	Eric Ross		Labour
Doon Valley	Elaine Dinwoodie		Labour
	Drew Filson		SNP
	Moira Pirie		Labour

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[edit] References

[edit] External links

• East Ayrshire Council
• East Ayrshire at the Open Directory Project
• East Ayrshire Forums - Tenants Portal (not associated with East Ayrshire Council)

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