The politics of Edinburgh are expressed in the deliberations and decisions of the City of Edinburgh Council,in elections to the council,the Scottish Parliament and the UK Parliament.
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.
John Andrew Barrett is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh West.
Lesley Hinds is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh,Scotland from 2003 to 2007.
Provost is a title held by the civic heads of local governments in Scotland. It is similar in use to the title of mayor in other parts of the English-speaking world.
Edinburgh West was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) from 1999 until 2011. It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It was also one of nine constituencies in the Lothians electoral region,which elected seven additional members,in addition to nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Rt Hon John Inglis,Lord Glencorse FRSE DCL LLD was a Scottish politician and judge. He was Lord President of the Court of Session (1867–1891).
Corstorphine is a village and parish to the west of Edinburgh,now considered a suburb of that city and formally incorporated into it in 1920.
Duncan Inglis Cameron OBE was a university administrator and Secretary of Heriot-Watt University,Edinburgh.
John Ross Letford MBE is a Scottish politician who served as the Lord Provost of Dundee,as well as a councillor in his local ward of Lochee,until May 2012. His eleven years as Lord Provost made him the longest serving civic head in the United Kingdom since the nineteenth century. He currently resides in the Charleston area of the city.
Sir James David Marwick FRSE was a Scottish lawyer,historian and town clerk. He served as Town Clerk of Glasgow for thirty-one years,during which time the entire city was transformed. Its powers and amenities were improved by by-laws and Acts of Parliament,and Marwick directed the city of Glasgow's development for much of the second half of the 19th century.
George Darlington Wilson Grubb was a Scottish politician who served as the Lord Provost and ex officio Lord-Lieutenant of Edinburgh from May 2007 until May 2012. He was also a Liberal Democrat councillor of the City of Edinburgh Council for Almond ward. In 2012 he stood down as a councillor,at the end of his five-year term as Lord Provost.
Robert Rickaby Winter is a Scottish former politician who was Lord Provost of Glasgow from 2007 until 2012.
The City of Edinburgh Council is the local government authority for the City of Edinburgh. It was created in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994,with the boundaries of the post-1975 City of Edinburgh District Council of the Lothian region.
George Auldjo Jamieson FRSE was a Scottish businessman,chartered accountant and local councillor.
Sir Donald Liddle LLD (1906–1989) was a 20th century Scottish corporate director who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1969 to 1972. He was the last Protestant Lord Provost of Glasgow in the 20th century.
Drum Brae/Gyle is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council. Established in 2007 along with the other wards,it currently elects three Councillors.
Corstorphine/Murrayfield is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council. Established in 2007 along with the other wards,it currently elects three Councillors.
The 2022 Dundee City Council election took place on 5 May 2022,the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. 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.
