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The Highland Council election, 2007: Fort William and Ardnamurchan [9] Party Candidate FPv% % Seat Count Liberal Democrats: Michael Foxley: 1,059 20.4 1 1 Independent: Donald Cameron: 939 18.1 2 7 SNP: Bren Gormley: 778 15.0 3 10 Labour: Brian Murphy: 501 9.7 4 10 Conservative: Andrew Baxter 372 7.2 Independent: Thomas MacLennan 322 6.2 ...
The council is based at the Highland Council Headquarters on Glenurquhart Road, in Inverness. [15] The oldest part of the building was originally a school, which was completed in 1876. [16] The complex was bought by the old Inverness-shire County Council in the 1930s and was significantly extended in the 1960s. [17]
The most recent election of the council was on 5 May 2022, and resulted in a coalition administration formed by the SNP and the Independent group. [4] The Coalition had 39 councillors, and the opposition was divided between 15 Lib Dem, 10 Conservatives, 2 Labour and 4 Green councillors plus 4 independent members who were not part of the ruling group.
The council's website only sometimes refers to the area as being Highland, and other times as being the Highland Council Area or the Highlands. [3] [4] Road signs on the boundary of the council area say "Welcome to the Highlands" rather than "Welcome to Highland". Road sign on the A9 where it enters the Highland council area south of Kingussie
The constituencies were created in 1999 with the names and boundaries of Westminster constituencies, as existing at that time. [2] They covered all of four council areas, [3] the Highland council area, Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles council area), the Orkney Isles council area and the Shetland Isles council area, and most of two others, the Argyll and Bute council area and the Moray council ...
The Highland Council election, 2007: Inverness Central Party Candidate FPv% % Seat Count SNP: Donnie Kerr: 1,019 21.9 1 1 Independent: Peter Corbett: 776 16.6 4 9 Liberal Democrats: Janet Campbell: 729 15.6 2 6 Labour: Bet McAllister: 720 15.4 3 6 Independent: William Smith 575 12.3 Conservative: David Bonsor 268 5.8 Independent: Ivor Bisset ...
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The Highland council area — a Scottish council area in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland region. Scotland portal Highland refers here to the local government area of Scotland which was fully established as a two-tier region of eight districts in 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 .