North Ayrshire is one of 32 council areas in Scotland. The council area borders Inverclyde to the north,Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire to the northeast,and East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire to the east and south respectively. The local authority is North Ayrshire Council,formed in 1996 with the same boundaries as the district of Cunninghame which existed from 1975 to 1996.
Cunninghame is a former comital district of Scotland and also a district of the Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996.
Saltcoats is a town on the west coast of North Ayrshire,Scotland. The name is derived from the town's earliest industry when salt was harvested from the sea water of the Firth of Clyde,carried out in small cottages along the shore. It is part of the 'Three Towns' conurbation along with Ardrossan and Stevenston and is the third largest town in North Ayrshire.
Campbell Martin is a Scottish journalist and former politician.
Ardrossan is a town on the North Ayrshire coast in southwestern Scotland. The town has a population of 10,670 and forms part of a conurbation with Saltcoats and Stevenston known as the 'Three Towns'. Ardrossan is located on the east shore of the Firth of Clyde.
Allan Wilson is a former Scottish Labour Party politician. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Cunninghame North constituency,a seat which he held from the inaugural Scottish Parliament general election in 1999 until his defeat at the 2007 election.
North Ayrshire and Arran is a constituency of the British House of Commons,located in the south-west of Scotland within the North Ayrshire council area. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) at least once every five years using the first-past-the-post voting system of voting.
Bute and Northern Ayrshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Irene Hamilton-Oldfather is a Scottish Labour Party politician. She was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Cunninghame South constituency from 1999 until 2011,when she was defeated by the SNP's Margaret Burgess.
Catherine Mario Ullrich was a Scottish politician who was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West of Scotland region from 1999 to 2003. A prominent member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),she was an early supporter of the political career of Nicola Sturgeon,who later became First Minister of Scotland.
Cunninghame North is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of North Ayrshire. 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.
Cunninghame South is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of North Ayrshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election,and is one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region. The regions elects seven additional members,in addition to the ten constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
William Kidd is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician,and Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow Anniesland constituency since 2011,having previously represented the Glasgow region from 2007 to 2011.
Margaret Jean Burgess is a former Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. She was the Minister for Housing and Welfare from 2012 to 2016,and the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Cunninghame South constituency from 2011 to 2016.
The 2012 North Ayrshire Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of North Ayrshire Council. The election used the eight wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004,with each ward electing three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system form of proportional representation,with 30 Councillors being elected.
Patricia Gibson is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as SNP Attorney General Spokesperson since September 2023. She served as the SNP Shadow Secretary of State for Housing,Communities and Local Government since 2021 to 2022. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Ayrshire and Arran 2015–2024.
There was a Scottish National Party leadership election to choose the new Depute leader of the Scottish National Party at the SNP's conference on 14–15 October 2016. The SNP's Westminster Group Leader Angus Robertson MP won the election.
Anum Qaisar,previously Anum Qaisar-Javed is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Airdrie and Shotts from 2021 to 2024,when she lost the seat to Kenneth Stevenson of the Labour Party. She was also the SNP Spokesperson for Levelling Up from 2023 to 2024.
Elections to North Ayrshire 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.
Irene Campbell is a Scottish Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for North Ayrshire and Arran since 2024.
