2022 East Lothian Council election

The 2022 East Lothian Council election took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election used the 5 wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 18 councillors being elected. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.

Scottish Labour retained control of the council, whilst the Scottish Greens won their first ever seat in East Lothian.

Ward summary
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!rowspan=2|Total Cllrs

!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | SNP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Lab !colspan=2 bgcolor=""| Conservative !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Green !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Lib Dem !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others
 * - class="unsortable" align="center"
 * align="left"|Musselburgh
 * bgcolor="" |34.33
 * bgcolor="" |1
 * 31.04
 * 2
 * 14.73
 * 0
 * 13.47
 * 1
 * 4.24
 * 0
 * 2.21
 * 0
 * 4
 * align="left"|Preston, Seton and Gosford
 * 29.78
 * 1
 * bgcolor="" |39.67
 * bgcolor="" |2
 * 20.46
 * 1
 * 5.78
 * 0
 * 3.29
 * 0
 * 1.02
 * 0
 * 4
 * align="left"|Tranent/Wallyford/Macmerry
 * 32.97
 * 2
 * bgcolor="" |45.57
 * bgcolor="" |2
 * 13.44
 * 0
 * 4.09
 * 0
 * 2.12
 * 0
 * 1.80
 * 0
 * 4
 * align="left"|North Berwick Coastal
 * 19.86
 * 1
 * 21.12
 * 1
 * bgcolor="" |38.97
 * bgcolor="" |1
 * 13.16
 * 0
 * 6.21
 * 0
 * 0.69
 * 0
 * 3
 * align="left"|Haddington and Lammermuir
 * 26.19
 * 1
 * bgcolor="" |36.44
 * bgcolor="" |2
 * 21.89
 * 1
 * 7.37
 * 0
 * 5.52
 * 0
 * 2.59
 * 0
 * 4
 * align="left"|Dunbar and East Linton
 * bgcolor="" |26.78
 * bgcolor="" |1
 * 25.25
 * 1
 * 21.45
 * 1
 * 15.13
 * 0
 * 10.13
 * 0
 * 1.26
 * 0
 * 3
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 * 10.13
 * 0
 * 1.26
 * 0
 * 3
 * }