1999 Scottish local elections

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1999 Scottish local elections
Flag of Scotland.svg
  1995 6 May 1999 (1999-05-06) 2003  

All 1,222 seats to Scottish councils
 First partySecond party
  Donald Dewar.jpg Alex Salmond, First Minister of Scotland (cropped).jpg
Leader Donald Dewar Alex Salmond
Party Labour SNP
Seats won 550204
Seat changeDecrease2.svg63Increase2.svg23
Popular vote829,921655,299
Percentage 36.6%28.7%
SwingDecrease2.svg7.0%Increase2.svg2.6%

 Third partyFourth party
  DavidMcLetchieMSP20110509.JPG Jim Wallace.jpg
Leader David McLetchie Jim Wallace
Party Conservative Liberal Democrats
Seats won108156
Seat changeIncrease2.svg26Increase2.svg35
Popular vote308,170289,236
Percentage13.5%12.7%
SwingIncrease2.svg2.0%Increase2.svg2.9%

Scottish council areas 1999.svg
Colours denote the winning party with outright control

Local elections were held in Scotland on 6 May 1999, the same day as First Scottish Parliament elections. It was the second election for all 32 Scottish councils and the first after a major review into all wards.

Contents

Boundary changes

A Major review of all boundaries took place before the 1999 elections as part of the third comprehensive review by the independent Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland [1] which resulted in an overall reduction of wards to 1222 instead of 1245 and many wards were restructured. [2]

NOT a full list:

Results

Summary of the 1999 Scottish council election results [3]
PartiesVotesVotes %WardsWards %Net
Gain/Loss
Labour 829,92136.655045.0
SNP 655,29928.720416.7
Liberal Democrats 289,23612.715612.8
Conservative 308,17013.51088.8
Independent 172,2977.519116.0
Other30,3421.090.7
Total2,285,345n/a1222n/an/a

Councils

Council 1995 result Control before election
(if different)
1999 resultDetails
Aberdeen City Labour Labour Details
Aberdeenshire No overall control No overall control Details
Angus SNP SNP
Argyll and Bute Independent Independent
Clackmannanshire Labour No overall control
Dumfries and Galloway Labour Labour
Dundee City Labour No overall control
East Ayrshire Labour Labour Details
East Dunbartonshire Labour NOC No overall control
East Lothian Labour Labour
East Renfrewshire No overall control No overall control
City of Edinburgh Labour Labour
Falkirk Labour No overall control
Fife Labour Labour Details
Glasgow City Labour Labour
Highland Independent Independent Details
Inverclyde Labour Labour Details
Midlothian Labour Labour
Moray SNP No overall control
Na h-Eileanan Siar Independent Independent
North Ayrshire Labour Labour
North Lanarkshire Labour Labour Details
Orkney Independent Independent
Perth and Kinross SNP NOC No overall control
Renfrewshire No overall control NOC Labour
Scottish Borders No overall control No overall control
Shetland Independent Independent
South Ayrshire Labour Labour
South Lanarkshire Labour Labour Details
Stirling Labour NOC No overall control (Lab minority)
West Dunbartonshire Labour Labour
West Lothian Labour Labour

See also

Notes and references

  1. "Council ward boundary changes". scotland.gov.uk. 21 January 1999. Archived from the original on 27 April 2012.
  2. "Unitary Council Political Compositions". scottishpolitics.org. Archived from the original on 11 December 2004.
  3. Denver, David; Bochel, Hugh (Winter 2000), "The Forgotten Elections: The Scottish Council Elections of 1999", Scottish Affairs (PDF), vol. 30, archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2011, retrieved 14 July 2011

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