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Within the politics of Scotland, the 1995 elections to North Ayrshire Council were held on 6 April 1995 and were the first for the newly formed Unitary authority for North Ayrshire Council, which was created under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994.
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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| Labour | 27 | 90 | 57.3 | 26,379 | |||||
| SNP | 1 | 3.3 | 25.1 | 11,565 | |||||
| Conservative | 1 | 3.3 | 12.0 | 5,508 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | 0 | 2.6 | 1,207 | |||||
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | 584 | |||||
| Other parties | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | 798 | |||||
Labour performed very well[ clarification needed ] and continued control of its majority.
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All wards returned Labour councillors except for Wards 27 (Largs South) and Ward 28 (Largs Central & Cumbrae), which returned a Conservative and SNP councillor respectively. [1]
Ward 14 (Stevenston North) didn't hold an election due to the death of a candidate. The by-election was held at a later date, with a Labour Councillor being returned. The results from that ward are excluded from the breakdown above. [1]
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