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.
Glasgow City Council is the local government authority for Glasgow City council area,Scotland. In its modern form it was created in 1996. Glasgow was formerly governed by a corporation,also known as the town council,from the granting of its first burgh charter in the 1170s until 1975. From 1975 until 1996 the city was governed by City of Glasgow District Council,a lower-tier authority within the Strathclyde region.
Local government in Scotland comprises thirty-two local authorities,commonly referred to as 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.
Edinburgh West is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,first contested at the 1885 general election.
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.
Charles John Pearson,Lord Pearson was a Scottish politician and judge who rose to be a Senator of the College of Justice.
Corstorphine is an area of the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh. Formerly a separate village and parish to the west of Edinburgh,it is now a suburb of the city,having been formally incorporated into it in 1920.
Myer Galpern,Baron Galpern,DL was a Scottish Labour Party politician.
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 covering the City of Edinburgh council area. Almost half of the council area is the built-up area of Edinburgh,capital of Scotland. With a population of 514,990 in 2022,it is the second most populous local authority area in Scotland.
George Auldjo Jamieson FRSE was a Scottish businessman,chartered accountant and local councillor.
Sir Donald Ross Liddle LLD was a 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.
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.
Elections to the City of Edinburgh Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. As with other Scottish council elections,it was held using single transferable vote (STV) –a form of proportional representation –in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference.
