Aberdeen City Council represents the Aberdeen City council area of Scotland.
Glasgow City Council is the local government authority for the City of Glasgow,Scotland. It was created in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994,largely with the boundaries of the post-1975 City of Glasgow district of the Strathclyde region.
Local government in Scotland comprises thirty-two local authorities,commonly referred to as Scottish councils. Each council provides public services,including education,social care,waste management,libraries and planning. Councils receive the majority of their funding from the Scottish Government,but operate independently and are accountable to their local electorates. Councils raise additional income via the Council Tax,a locally variable domestic property tax,and Business rates,a non-domestic property tax.
George Foulkes,Baron Foulkes of Cumnock PC is a Scottish politician and life peer who served as Minister of State for Scotland from 2001 to 2002. A member of the Scottish Labour Party and Co-operative Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Carrick,Cumnock and Doon Valley,formerly South Ayrshire,from 1979 to 2005. He was later a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP),as one of the additional members for the Lothians region,from 2007 to 2011.
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon is a Scottish politician serving as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) since 2014. She is the first woman to hold either position. She has been a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 1999,first as an additional member for the Glasgow electoral region,and as the member for Glasgow Southside from 2007.
Margaret Patricia Curran is a Scottish Labour Party politician. She served in the British House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow East from 2010 to 2015 and was Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland from 2011 until 2015. She was previously the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Baillieston from 1999 to 2011,and held a number of posts within the Scottish Executive,including Minister for Parliamentary Business,Minister for Social Justice and Minister for Communities.
Politics in the Dundee Citycouncil area are evident in the deliberations and decisions of Dundee City Council,in elections to the council,and in elections to the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) and the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster).
John Fingland Mason is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Shettleston since 2011.
Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014,currently serving as leader of the Alba Party since 26 March 2021. He was previously the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP),serving two terms,from 1990 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2014. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Banff and Buchan from 1987 to 2010,when he stood down to focus on his role as First Minister,and then for Gordon from 2015 to 2017. Salmond was the Depute Leader of the SNP from 1987 to 1990 and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2001 and 2007 to 2016.
Events from the year 2011 in Scotland.
James Dornan is an Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who is Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Cathcart.
Anne Margaret McTaggart is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician,and a Glasgow city councillor. She was previously a Scottish Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region from 2011 to 2016.
Anderston/City/Yorkhill is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. Created as Anderston/City in 2007,it returned four council members,using the single transferable vote system. The same criteria applied in 2012. For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election,the boundaries were changed,the ward slightly decreased in size and was renamed Anderston/City/Yorkhill,still returning four councillors.
The 2017 Scottish local elections were held on Thursday 4 May,in all 32 local authorities. The SNP retained its position as the largest party in terms of votes and councillors,despite suffering minor losses. The Conservatives made gains and displaced Labour as the second largest party,while the Liberal Democrats suffered a net loss of councillors despite increasing their share of the vote. Minor parties and independents polled well;and independent councillors retained majority control over the three island councils. For the first time since the local government reforms in 1995,all mainland councils fell under no overall control.
Kirsten Frances Oswald is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as the SNP Deputy Westminster Leader since 2020. First elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire in 2015,she was unseated at the 2017 snap election but subsequently re-elected at the 2019 election.
Patricia Gibson is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as the SNP Shadow Secretary of State for Housing,Communities and Local Government since 2021. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Ayrshire and Arran since winning the seat at the 2015 general election.
The Glasgow City Council election of 2017 was held on 4 May 2017,the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election was the first to use 23 new wards,created as a result of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland's 5th Review. Each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system,a form of proportional representation used since the 2007 election and according to the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004.
Susan Aitken is a Scottish politician who has served as Leader of Glasgow City Council since 2017. A member of the Scottish National Party,she has been the leader of the SNP group on the council since 2014 and a councillor for the Langside ward since 2012.
The 2022 election to the Glasgow City Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election used the 23 wards created following the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland's 5th Review,with 85 councillors being elected. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members,using the STV electoral system.
