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The council has been under no overall control since 2007, with a Labour leader since 2012.. The first election to West Lothian District Council was held in 1974, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until the new system came into force on 16 May 1975.
The West Lothian council area is represented by two constituencies in the Scottish Parliament, these are Almond Valley and Linlithgow.. The Linlithgow constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency.
However, the council also owned Lindsay House on South Bridge Street, Bathgate, which had been built as the Burgh Chambers for the old Bathgate Town Council in 1966, [2] and West Lothian House on Almondvale Boulevard in Livingston, which had been built as the headquarters of the Livingston Development Corporation in 1981. [3]
West Lothian has a diverse economy and as of 2020 had approximately 4,500 businesses providing almost 72,000 jobs in the area. [47] In 2014, West Lothian Council reported that the five largest employment sectors in the council area were healthcare, construction, retail, manufacturing, and business administration and support services. [48]
West Lothian Council election, 2007: Bathgate Party Candidate FPv% % Seat Count Labour: John McGinty: 1,521 22.2 2 5 SNP: William Boyle: 1,494 21.8 1 5 Labour: Harry Cartmill 1,366 20.0 SNP: James Walker: 1,308 19.1 3 5 Conservative: Donald MacDonald 425 6.2 Action to Save St John's Hospital Gary Montgomery 371 5.4 Liberal Democrats: Charles ...
The constituency covers the eastern portion of the West Lothian council area, and is dominated by Livingston. It is bordered by the constituencies of Edinburgh West, Edinburgh South West, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, Lanark and Hamilton East, Airdrie and Shotts, and Linlithgow and East Falkirk.
[6] [7] The district council retained the county buildings in Linlithgow as additional office space. [8] In November 2009, the new unitary authority, West Lothian Council, centralised its services at the new West Lothian Civic Centre in Livingston and much of the space in the county buildings in Linlithgow fell vacant. [9]
The 2022 West Lothian Council election was held on 5 May 2022, on the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. The election used the nine wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 , with 33 Councillors elected.