Aberdeen City Council is the local government authority for the city of Aberdeen,Scotland. It was created in 1996,under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994,though a sense of Aberdeen as a city,with its own city council,can be traced back to 1900,when the county of the city of Aberdeen was created.
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.
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.
South Lanarkshire Council is the unitary authority serving the South Lanarkshire council area in Scotland. The council has its headquarters in Hamilton,has 16,000 employees,and an annual budget of almost £1bn. The large and varied geographical territory takes in rural and upland areas,market towns such as Lanark,Strathaven and Carluke,the urban burghs of Rutherglen,Cambuslang,and East Kilbride which was Scotland's first new town. The area was formed in 1996 from the areas of Clydesdale,Hamilton and East Kilbride districts,and some outer areas of Glasgow district;all were previously within the Strathclyde region from 1975 but in historic Lanarkshire prior to that.
A bailie or baillie is a civic officer in the local government of Scotland. The position arose in the burghs,where bailies formerly held a post similar to that of an alderman or magistrate. Baillies appointed the high constables in Edinburgh,Leith and Perth. Modern bailies exist in Scottish local councils,with the position being a courtesy title and appointees often requested to provide support to the lord provost or provost - the ceremonial and civic head of the council - in their various engagements.
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.
Robert Rickaby Winter is a Scottish former politician who was Lord Provost of Glasgow from 2007 until 2012.
Mian Amer Mahmood,is a Pakistani businessman and politician who is the founder of the Punjab Group of Colleges. He was the Mayor of Lahore between 2001 and 2009.
Elections for the City of Glasgow District Council took place on 3 May 1977,alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. These were the second elections to the City of Glasgow District Council,and saw Labour losing their control of the council,losing nearly half of their councillors. Among the losing councillors was Dick Dynes,the Labour group leader. Dynes was replaced as leader by Jean McFadden.
The 1980 City of Glasgow District Council election took place on 1 May 1980,alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. This was the third election to the City of Glasgow District Council.
Eva Bolander is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. She sits as a councillor for the Anderston/City/Yorkhill ward,having first been elected in a by-election in 2015.
Dame Jean Barr MacDonald Roberts,DBE was a Scottish politician who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1960 to 1962,the first ever female Lord Provost. She was awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. She was a member of the Independent Labour Party.
John Campbell (1664–1739) was a Scottish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721 to 1734.
Frank Ross is a Scottish politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from April 2017 until May 2022. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),he has been a councillor for the Corstorphine/Murrayfield ward in the City of Edinburgh Council since 2012.
Elections to Glasgow City 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.
