Inverclyde Council is one of the 32 local authorities of Scotland, covering the Inverclyde council area. In its current form the council was created in 1996, replacing the previous Inverclyde District Council which existed from 1975 to 1996.
Greenock and Inverclyde is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering most of the council area of Inverclyde. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Lomond is one of the six wards used to elect members of the West Dunbartonshire Council. It elects three Councillors.
Leven is one of the six wards used to elect members of the West Dunbartonshire Council. It elects four Councillors.
Dumbarton is one of the six wards used to elect members of the West Dunbartonshire Council. It elects four Councillors.
Kilpatrick is one of the six wards used to elect members of the West Dunbartonshire Council. It elects three Councillors.
Clydebank Central is one of the six wards used to elect members of the West Dunbartonshire Council. It elects four Councillors.
Clydebank Waterfront is one of the six wards used to elect members of the West Dunbartonshire Council. It elects four Councillors.
Inverclyde East is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the Inverclyde Council. It elects three Councillors.
Inverclyde Central is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the Inverclyde Council. It elects three Councillors.
Inverclyde North is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the Inverclyde Council. It elects four Councillors.
Inverclyde West is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the Inverclyde Council. It elects three Councillors.
Inverclyde South West is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the Inverclyde Council. It elects three Councillors.
Inverclyde South is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the Inverclyde Council. It elects three Councillors.
Cumbernauld East is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. It currently elects four councillors.
Coatbridge South is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. Covering neighbourhoods in the south-east of Coatbridge, it currently elects four councillors. A boundary review in 2017 caused the addition of an area between Langloan Street, the A725 and the A89, with a small increase in the electorate and an additional seat from the original three. The ward had a population of 16,889 in 2019.
Bellshill is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, it originally returned three councillors, covering part of Bellshill, with the northern boundary at the A8 and the western boundary at the A725 bypass; much of Strathclyde Country Park was also assigned to this ward.
Busby, Clarkston and Eaglesham was one of six multi-member wards used to elect members of the East Renfrewshire Council between 2007 and 2017. It elected three Councillors.
Renfrewshire is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, formally established in 1996 to succeed the Renfrew district within the Strathclyde region, both of which were abolished; the headquarters are at Paisley.
Kirkintilloch East and North and Twechar is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the East Dunbartonshire Council. It elects three Councillors. The current entity was technically created in 2017 following a boundary review, but has largely the same boundaries as the 2007 Kirkintilloch East and Twechar ward, which as its name suggests encompassed the eastern parts of Kirkintilloch and the separate village of Twechar further east, up to the boundary with Kilsyth and Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire.
