Created in 2007, the ward elects four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 14,377 people.

The area is a Conservative stronghold with the party holding half the seats at every election.

The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections.

As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so Troon was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards.

[2] The ward's boundaries were unchanged following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections.