Tain and Easter Ross is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. Between the Cromarty Firth and the Dornoch Firth and east of the Cromarty Firth ward, it includes the town of Tain and the Seaboard Villages. It elects three Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Alasdair Rhind (Ind.) | Alan Torrance (Ind.) | Richard Durham (Liberal Democrats) | |||||
| 2011 by- | Fiona Robertson (Ind.) | |||||||
| 2012 | Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrats) | |||||||
| 2017 | Derek Louden (SNP) | |||||||
| Sep 2017 | Alasdair Rhind (Ind.) | |||||||
| 2022 | Sarah Rawlings (Liberal Democrats) | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Independent | Maureen Ross | 41.49% | 1,022 | 1,025 | 1,033 | 1,058 | 1,131 | 1,312 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Charles Stephen | 24.48% | 603 | 605 | 618 | 644 | 705 | 801 | |
| SNP | Gordon Allison | 18.84% | 464 | 467 | 491 | 506 | 514 | ||
| Conservative | Veronica Morrison | 8.40% | 207 | 210 | 210 | 216 | |||
| Labour | Michael Perera | 3.57% | 88 | 90 | 96 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Andrew Barnett | 2.27% | 56 | 58 | |||||
| Libertarian | Harry Christian | 0.93% | 23 | ||||||
| Electorate: 7,226 Valid: 2,463 Spoilt: 25 Quota: 1,232 Turnout: 24.4% | |||||||||
2022 Highland Council election [3]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| SNP | Derek Louden (incumbent) | 30.61% | 1,051 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Sarah Rawlings | 21.52% | 739 | 780.7 | 922.0 | |
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind (incumbent) | 21.14% | 726 | 776.2 | 876.3 | |
| Independent | Fiona Robertson (incumbent) | 16.13% | 554 | 604.8 | 668.5 | |
| Conservative | Veronica Morrison | 10.60% | 364 | 368.6 | ||
| Electorate: 7,234 Valid: 3,434 Spoilt: 37 Quota: 859 Turnout: 48% | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind | 48.8% | 1,266 | 1,267 | 1,290 | |
| SNP | Stan Peace | 23.6% | 612 | 616 | 634 | |
| Liberal Democrats | William Sinclair | 14.3% | 372 | 376 | 387 | |
| Conservative | Eva Short | 9.0% | 233 | 236 | 243 | |
| Independent | Gerald Holdsworth | 2.6% | 68 | 69 | ||
| Libertarian | Harry Christian | 0.5% | 13 | |||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 2,564 Spoilt: 29 Quota: 1,283 Turnout: 2,593 (36.1%) | ||||||
2017 Highland Council election [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Independent | Fiona Robertson (incumbent) | 20.32% | 708 | 751 | 903 | ||||
| SNP | Derek Louden | 23.85% | 831 | 847 | 870 | 874 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Jamie Stone (incumbent) † | 19.49% | 679 | 696 | 851 | 860 | 861 | 1,342 | |
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind (incumbent) | 16.33% | 569 | 587 | 722 | 736 | 736 | ||
| Conservative | Ron Ferguson | 16.02% | 558 | 583 | |||||
| Independent | Sandra Skinner | 3.99% | 139 | ||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 3,484 Spoilt: 64 Quota: 872 Turnout: 49.9% | |||||||||
2012 Highland Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind (incumbent) | 32.67% | 1,008 | |||||||
| Independent | Fiona Robertson (incumbent) | 24.44% | 754 | 861.9 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Jamie Stone | 16.47% | 508 | 560.7 | 591.2 | 598.9 | 611.6 | 639.2 | 774.9 | |
| SNP | Charlie Falconer | 13.61% | 420 | 432.2 | 441.8 | 446.8 | 450.9 | 468.8 | 514.8 | |
| Independent | Richard Durham (incumbent) | 8.14% | 250 | 284.9 | 312.6 | 315.9 | 333.2 | 347.2 | ||
| Labour | Ron Stevenson | 2.53% | 78 | 81 | 82.8 | 86.2 | 89.6 | |||
| Conservative | David Rutherford | 1.43% | 44 | 48.7 | 52.3 | 54.1 | ||||
| TUSC | Sean Robertson | 0.74% | 23 | 24.9 | 27.2 | |||||
| Electorate: 7,051 Valid: 3,085 Spoilt: 21 Quota: 772 Turnout: 3,106 (44.05%) | ||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||||
| SNP | Derek William Louden | 33.2 | 837 | 860 | 928 | 1,037 | 1,037 | ||
| Independent | Fiona Robertson | 32.2 | 811 | 840 | 933 | 1,204 | 1,204 | ||
| Independent | Ruairidh MacKenzie | 18.54 | 467 | 481 | 547 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Antony Gardner | 12.19 | 307 | 318 | |||||
| Independent | Michael Herd | 3.9 | 97 | ||||||
| Independent gain from SNP | Swing | ||||||||
| Electorate: 6,962 Valid: 2,519 Spoilt: 17 Quota: 1,260 Turnout: 2,536 | |||||||||
2007 Highland Council election
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind | 1,406 | 36.2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Richard Durham | 627 | 16.2 | 2 | 8 | |
| SNP | Jim McCreath | 465 | 12.0 | |||
| Independent | Alan Torrance | 436 | 11.2 | 3 | 10 | |
| Independent | Murray MacLeod | 294 | 7.6 | |||
| Independent | Michael Herd | 204 | 5.3 | |||
| Labour | Sunny Moodie | 148 | 3.8 | |||
| Conservative | David Rutherford | 124 | 3.2 | |||
| Independent | John Boocock | 116 | 3.0 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Donnie Fraser | 59 | 1.5 | |||
Highland is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in the United Kingdom. It was the 7th most populous council area in Scotland at the 2011 census. It shares borders with the council areas of Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, Moray and Perth and Kinross. Their councils, and those of Angus and Stirling, also have areas of the Scottish Highlands within their administrative boundaries.
Sutherland is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. Its county town is Dornoch. Sutherland borders Caithness and Moray Firth to the east, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire to the south and the Atlantic to the north and west. Like its southern neighbour Ross-shire, Sutherland has some of the most dramatic scenery in Europe, especially on its western fringe where the mountains meet the sea. These include high sea cliffs, and very old mountains composed of Precambrian and Cambrian rocks.
Tain is a royal burgh and parish in the County of Ross, in the Highlands of Scotland.
Ross and Cromarty, also referred to as Ross-shire and Cromartyshire, is a variously defined area in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. There is a registration county and a lieutenancy area in current use, the latter of which is 8,019 square kilometres in extent. Historically there has also been a constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, a local government county, a district of the Highland local government region and a management area of the Highland Council. The local government county is now divided between two local government areas: the Highland area and Na h-Eileanan Siar. Ross and Cromarty border Sutherland to the north and Inverness-shire to the south.
Caithness is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). It is the most northerly constituency on the British mainland. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.
James Hume Walter Miéville Stone is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, representing the constituency of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, since 2017 the northernmost mainland British constituency and one of the largest by area.
Ross, Skye and Lochaber is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
The politics of the Highland council area in Scotland are evident in the deliberations and decisions of the Highland Council, in elections to the council, and in elections to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) and the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). In the European Parliament the area was within the Scotland constituency, which covers all of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
Barbaraville is a small settlement on the north shore of Nigg Bay in the Cromarty Firth in the Highland council area of Scotland. Housing dates from 1820 on when local people were allowed to build on packets of land from local estates at Balnagown, Tarbet and Polnicol. Comprising approximately 170 households, there has been recent expansion with the creation of a retirement village at Highland Park which has added some 50 households to the community all of which are occupied by people over the age of 55.
Elections to the Highland Council were held on 3 May 2007; the same day as elections to the Scottish Parliament and to the 31 other councils in Scotland. Previous elections to the council had been conducted using the single member plurality system. Changes implemented by the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 meant that future local government elections were to be conducted using the Single Transferable Vote, beginning with those in 2007. The 80 Highland Councillors were now to be elected from 22 wards, returning either three or four members.
The Highland Council, the political body covering the Highland local authority created in 1995, comprises 21 wards, each electing three or four councillors by the single transferable vote system, which creates a form of proportional representation. The total number of councillors is 74, and the main meeting place and main offices are at the Highland Council Headquarters in Glenurquhart Road, Inverness.
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering the northern part of the Highland council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to eight constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
The 2017 Highland Council election was held on 4 May 2017 to elect members of the Highland Council. The election used the 21 wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004; each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system. A total of 74 councillors were elected, six less than in 2012.
Cromarty Firth is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It consists of North of the Cromarty Firth, west of the Tain and Easter Ross ward
North, West and Central Sutherland is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It includes the towns and villages of Altnaharra, Ardgay, Bettyhill, Bonar Bridge, Durness, Lairg, Lochinver and Tongue. With Lairg and Bonar being the most populated settlements in the area. It elects three Councillors.
Black Isle is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It includes the towns of Cromarty and Fortrose. It elects four Councillors.
Dingwall and Seaforth is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It includes the towns of Dingwall, Conon Bridge, and Muir of Ord. It elects four Councillors.
Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It includes the towns and villages of Gairloch, Lochalsh, Strathpeffer and Ullapool. It elects four Councillors.
Elections to The Highland Council were held on 5 May 2022, the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election used the 21 wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 74 councillors being elected. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.
