Badenoch and Strathspey is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It encompasses the towns and villages of Aviemore, Boat of Garten, Carrbridge, Cromdale, Dulnain Bridge, Grantown-on-Spey, Kingussie, Newtonmore and Nethy Bridge. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | David Fallows (SNP) | Stuart Black (Liberal Democrats) | Gregor Rimell (Ind./Liberal Democrats) | Jaci Douglas (Ind.) | ||||
| 2012 | Bill Lobban (SNP/ Ind.) | |||||||
| 2017 | Muriel Cockburn (SNP) | John Bruce (Conservative) | Pippa Hadley (Greens) | |||||
| 2022 | Russell Jones (Ind.) | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Independent | Russell Jones | 23.1 | 1,280 | ||||||||
| SNP | Muriel Cockburn (incumbent) | 16.0 | 886 | 900 | 914 | 1,210 | |||||
| Conservative | John Bruce (incumbent) | 15.6 | 861 | 878 | 899 | 906 | 907 | 1,043 | 1,051 | 1,217 | |
| Independent | Bill Lobban (incumbent) | 15.2 | 842 | 895 | 946 | 962 | 978 | 1,133 | |||
| Scottish Green | Pippa Hadley (incumbent) | 10.3 | 568 | 593 | 624 | 655 | 702 | 850 | 858 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Declan Gallacher | 8.8 | 489 | 503 | 575 | 596 | 605 | ||||
| SNP | Dave Fallows | 6.7 | 371 | 381 | 397 | ||||||
| Labour | Charlie Whelan | 4.2 | 232 | 241 | |||||||
| Electorate: 10,899 Valid: 5,529 Spoilt: 92 Quota: 1,106 Turnout: 51.6% | |||||||||||
2017 Highland Council election [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Conservative | John Bruce | 23.58% | 1,266 | ||||||||
| Independent | Bill Lobban (incumbent) | 22.15% | 1,189 | ||||||||
| SNP | Muriel Cockburn | 18.48% | 992 | 993.8 | 1,005.9 | 1,014.8 | 1,040.5 | 1,089.9 | |||
| Scottish Green | Pippa Hadley | 14.04% | 754 | 763.7 | 784.1 | 808.3 | 820.6 | 905.7 | 915.4 | 1,230.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Gregor Rimell (incumbent) | 9.61% | 516 | 571.4 | 601.5 | 663.9 | 689.6 | 793.7 | 795.4 | ||
| Independent | Stewart Dick | 6.26% | 336 | 362.8 | 371.7 | 401.1 | 455.7 | ||||
| UKIP | Les Durance | 3.15% | 169 | 198.6 | 202.7 | 210.9 | |||||
| Independent | Donald MacDonald | 2.74% | 147 | 167.8 | 185.3 | ||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 5,369 Spoilt: 43 Quota: 1,074 Turnout: 5,412 (51%) | |||||||||||
2012 Highland Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Independent | Jaci Douglas (incumbent) | 24.68% | 1,082 | ||||||
| SNP | Bill Lobban | 17.99% | 789 | 813.3 | 818.9 | 840.1 | 844.8 | 970.6 | |
| SNP | David Fallows (incumbent)††††††††††† | 16.49% | 723 | 750.3 | 764.5 | 796.6 | 805.8 | 912.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Gregor Rimell (incumbent) | 14.73% | 646 | 707.3 | 720.3 | 927.9 | |||
| Labour | Kieran Turner | 12.91% | 566 | 596.5 | 610.7 | 640.6 | 653.6 | ||
| Conservative | Les Durance | 10.22% | 448 | 466.5 | 518.1 | ||||
| UKIP | Ross Durance | 2.99% | 131 | 141.4 | |||||
| Electorate: 10,348 Valid: 4,385 Spoilt: 49 Quota: 878 Turnout: 4,434 (42.85%) | |||||||||
2007 Highland Council election
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Stuart Black | 1,720 | 31.2 | 1 | 1 | |
| SNP | David Fallows | 1,347 | 24.4 | 2 | 1 | |
| Independent | Gregor Rimell | 736 | 13.3 | 3 | 5 | |
| Conservative | Les Durance | 532 | 9.6 | |||
| Independent | Jaci Douglas | 484 | 8.8 | 4 | 7 | |
| Scottish Senior Citizens | Donald Scobbie | 350 | 6.4 | |||
| Independent | Angela Cox | 347 | 6.3 | |||
Highland is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in the United Kingdom. It was the 7th most populous council area in Scotland at the 2011 census. It has land borders with the council areas of Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, Moray and Perth and Kinross. The wider upland area of the Scottish Highlands after which the council area is named extends beyond the Highland council area into all the neighbouring council areas plus Angus and Stirling.
Badenoch and Strathspey was a local government district, created in 1975 as one of eight districts within the Highland region in Scotland. The district was abolished in 1996 when Highland was made a single-tier council area. Since then, the Highland Council has had a Badenoch and Strathspey area committee covering the area.
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Generally, descriptions above are inferred from the maps.
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