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.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Richard Greene (Ind.) | Audrey Sinclair (Ind.) | Jean Urquhart (SNP) | Biz Campbell (Liberal Democrats /Ind.) | ||||
| 2012 | Ian Cockburn (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Derek McLeod (Conservative) | Kate Stephen (Liberal Democrats) | ||||||
| Dec 2018 | Alexander MacInnes (SNP) | |||||||
| 2022 | Patrick Logue (Conservative) | Liz Kraft (SNP) | Chris Birt (SNP) | |||||
2022 Highland Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Independent | Biz Campbell (incumbent) | 28.68% | 1,552 | |||||
| SNP | Liz Kraft | 22.81% | 1,234 | |||||
| SNP | Chris Birt | 18.26% | 988 | 1,092.6 | ||||
| Conservative | Patrick Logue | 17.32% | 937 | 1,029.2 | 1,032.1 | 1,032.4 | 1,479.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Margot Kerr | 12.94% | 700 | 882.5 | 956.6 | 960.8 | ||
| Electorate: 10,406 Valid: 5,411 Spoilt: 74 Quota: 1,083 Turnout: 52.7% | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Alexander MacInnes | 33.1% | 1,318 | 1,320 | 1,322 | 1,327 | 1,354 | 1,397 | 1,575 | 1,798 | |
| Conservative | Gavin Berkeneger | 26% | 1,037 | 1,038 | 1,043 | 1,061 | 1,071 | 1,147 | 1,186 | 1,374 | |
| Independent | Richard Greene | 15.6% | 622 | 624 | 627 | 677 | 699 | 785 | 905 | ||
| Green | Irene Francis Brandt | 9% | 359 | 359 | 359 | 364 | 411 | 483 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | George Scott | 8% | 320 | 320 | 322 | 346 | 379 | ||||
| Labour | Christopher Birt | 4.4% | 174 | 174 | 175 | 179 | |||||
| Independent | Jean Davis | 3.3% | 131 | 132 | 133 | ||||||
| UKIP | Les Durance | 0.4% | 16 | 18 | |||||||
| Libertarian | Harry Christian | 0.2% | 8 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 9,900 Valid: 3,985 Spoilt: 39 Quota: 1,993 Turnout: 4,024(40.65%) | |||||||||||
2017 Highland Council election [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Ian Cockburn (incumbent) | 15.28% | 859 | 887 | 1,355 | ||||||
| Conservative | Derek MacLeod | 18.44% | 1,036 | 1,055 | 1,061 | 1,064 | 1,206 | ||||
| Independent | Biz Campbell (incumbent) | 14.16% | 796 | 843 | 876 | 900 | 1,146 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Kate Stephen*†††††† | 13.38% | 752 | 841 | 864 | 883 | 993 | 1,026 | 1,035 | 1,560 | |
| Green | Topher Dawson | 11.18% | 628 | 674 | 721 | 839 | 928 | 935 | 939 | ||
| Independent | Richard Greene (incumbent) | 11.67% | 656 | 673 | 686 | 700 | |||||
| SNP | Alexander MacInnes | 10.82% | 608 | 610 | |||||||
| Labour | Christopher Birt | 5.07% | 285 | ||||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 5,620 Spoilt: 75 Quota: 1,125 Turnout: 57.8% | |||||||||||
2012 Highland Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Biz Campbell† (incumbent) | 27.59% | 1,162 | |||||||
| Independent | Richard Greene (incumbent) | 20.68% | 871 | |||||||
| Independent | Audrey Sinclair (incumbent) | 16.08% | 677 | 802.7 | 811.9 | 941.6 | ||||
| SNP | Ian Cockburn | 15.01% | 632 | 670.2 | 672.9 | 697.1 | 708.9 | 740.6 | 1,107.2 | |
| SNP | Paul Monaghan | 8.98% | 378 | 388.2 | 389.5 | 407.5 | 418.2 | 436.8 | ||
| Conservative | Alaine MacDonald | 6.1% | 257 | 284.7 | 286.3 | 303.2 | 315.4 | |||
| Independent | Richard Mitchell | 5.56% | 234 | 265 | 271.8 | |||||
| Electorate: 9,612 Valid: 4,211 Spoilt: 62 Quota: 843 Turnout: 4,273 (44.45%) | ||||||||||
2007 Highland Council election
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Jean Urquhart | 1,486 | 26.1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Biz Campbell | 1,242 | 21.8 | 2 | 1 | |
| Independent | Richard Greene | 792 | 13.9 | 3 | 7 | |
| Independent | Audrey Sinclair | 608 | 10.7 | 4 | 9 | |
| Conservative | John Scott | 451 | 7.9 | |||
| Labour | Christine Conniff | 354 | 6.2 | |||
| Independent | Marie Tait | 328 | 5.8 | |||
| Independent | Donald Macdonald | 232 | 4.1 | |||
| Independent | Alastair Armitstead | 199 | 3.5 | |||
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.
Ross and Cromarty, sometimes 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.
Skye and Lochalsh is one of eight former local government districts of the two-tier Highland region of Scotland. The main offices of the Skye and Lochalsh district council were in Portree, on the Isle of Skye.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Inverness West is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It includes Kinmylies and Scorguie areas of urban Inverness, and a more rural area, west of the River Ness. 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.
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