Cromarty Firth is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It consists of North of the Cromarty Firth, west of the Tain and Easter Ross ward
Includes the towns of Alness, Evanton and Invergordon. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Carolyn Wilson (Ind.) | Mike Minlayson (Ind.) | Maxine Morley-Smith (SNP/ Highland Matters) | Martin Rattay (Liberal Democrats) | ||||
| 2012 | ||||||||
| 2017 | Pauline Munro (SNP/ Highland Matters) | |||||||
| 2022 | Molly Nolan (Liberal Democrats) | Tamala Collier (SNP) | ||||||
2022 Highland Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| SNP | Tamala Collier | 29.12% | 1,127 | |||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Molly Nolan | 27.88% | 1,079 | |||||||||
| Independent | Pauline Munro (incumbent) | 17.55% | 679 | 749.3 | 804.5 | |||||||
| Independent | Maxine Morley-Smith (incumbent) | 7.31% | 283 | 323.0 | 355.9 | 370.8 | 383.2 | 446.6 | 498.9 | 575.6 | 705.0 | |
| Conservative | Andrew Phillip Baxter [FWA] | 6.74% | 261 | 266.0 | 315.0 | 315.8 | 322.1 | 346.3 | 350.4 | 397.4 | ||
| Labour | Kirsty Stewart | 4.19% | 162 | 194.2 | 238.1 | 239.5 | 249.3 | 267.9 | 343.6 | |||
| Independent | Kate Stevenson | 3.15% | 122 | 135.7 | 174.3 | 178.9 | 192.0 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Daniel Reat | 2.89% | 112 | 223.5 | 243.2 | 244.4 | 247.3 | 260.7 | ||||
| Independent | Eric Fraser | 1.16% | 45 | 54.7 | 64.0 | 65.7 | ||||||
| Electorate: 9,918 Valid: 3,870 Spoilt: 58 Quota: 775 Turnout: 39.6% | ||||||||||||
2017 Highland Council election [3]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Independent | Carolyn Wilson (incumbent) | 27.01% | 1,108 | ||||||||
| SNP | Pauline Munro | 19.53% | 801 | 828 | |||||||
| Independent | Mike Finlayson (incumbent) | 9.87% | 405 | 483 | 483 | 532 | 567 | 639 | 773 | 1,047 | |
| SNP | Maxine Smith (incumbent) | 14.12% | 579 | 599 | 604 | 615 | 624 | 660 | 674 | 741 | |
| Independent | Martin Rattray (incumbent) | 7.85% | 322 | 378 | 378 | 399 | 422 | 498 | 591 | ||
| Conservative | Ian Smith | 8.43% | 346 | 368 | 368 | 373 | 390 | 468 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Mary MacDonald | 6.78 | 278 | 303 | 303 | 320 | 360 | ||||
| Labour | Bill Curran | 3.78% | 155 | 162 | 162 | 170 | |||||
| Independent | Sheila Fletcher | 2.63% | 108 | 122 | 122 | ||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 4,102 Spoilt: 65 Quota: 821 Turnout: 43.4% | |||||||||||
2012 Highland Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Independent | Carolyn Wilson (incumbent) | 23.60% | 768 | |||||||
| SNP | Maxine Smith (incumbent) | 17.95% | 584 | 604.7 | 606.9 | 660.8 | ||||
| SNP | Sheila Fletcher | 14.26% | 464 | 469.5 | 470.6 | 489.2 | 494.9 | 547.95 | ||
| Independent | Mike Finlayson (incumbent) | 11.95% | 389 | 429.4 | 452.3 | 519 | 519.8 | 621.3 | 777.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Martin Rattray (incumbent)††† | 11.09% | 361 | 378.7 | 394.6 | 481.4 | 483.4 | 547.96 | 630.9 | |
| Labour | John McInnes | 9.96% | 324 | 332.2 | 336.5 | 367.4 | 367.9 | |||
| Independent | Tina Deborah McCaffery | 9.19% | 299 | 307.1 | 313.2 | |||||
| Conservative | Jane Rous | 1.99% | 65 | 68.5 | ||||||
| Electorate: 9,456 Valid: 3,254 Spoilt: 65 Quota: 651 Turnout: 3,319 (35.1%) | ||||||||||
2007 Highland Council election
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Carolyn Wilson | 1,348 | 29.7 | 1 | 1 | |
| SNP | Maxine Smith | 1,021 | 22.5 | 2 | 1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Martin Rattray | 647 | 14.3 | 3 | 7 | |
| Independent | Mike Finlayson | 438 | 9.7 | 4 | 9 | |
| Labour | John MacInnes | 438 | 9.7 | |||
| Independent | John Connell | 307 | 6.8 | |||
| Conservative | Hamish Keir | 141 | 3.1 | |||
| Independent | Mary MacDonald | 104 | 2.3 | |||
| Solidarity | Findlay Walker | 88 | 1.9 | |||
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 shares borders with the council areas of Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, Moray and Perth and Kinross. Their councils, and those of Angus and Stirling, also have areas of the Scottish Highlands within their administrative boundaries.
Cromarty is a town, civil parish and former royal burgh in Ross and Cromarty, in the Highland area of Scotland. Situated at the tip of the Black Isle on the southern shore of the mouth of Cromarty Firth, it is 5 miles (8 km) seaward from Invergordon on the opposite coast. In the 2001 census, it had a population of 719.
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