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The Highland Council Headquarters, formerly County Buildings, is a municipal structure in Glenurquhart Road, Inverness, Highland, Scotland. The oldest part of the complex, which currently serves as the headquarters of The Highland Council , is a Category C listed building .
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 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 former Highland region became one of the new council areas, run by the Highland Council. [7] The Highland Council has run various area committees since its creation. These were initially based on the abolished districts, but have been reviewed a number of times since. [8]
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the Highland council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election.
The county council initially operated from the courthouse in Ferry Road, but moved to the Old Academy Buildings in Tulloch Street in the 1930s. [5] However, in the early 1960s, the council leaders decided that they needed purpose-built accommodation: the site they selected in the High Street had been an old military depot.
The Highland Council election, 2007: Tain and Easter Ross Party Candidate FPv% % 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 ...
The Highland Council election, 2007: Inverness South Party Candidate FPv% % Seat Count SNP: Roy Pedersen: 1,058 27.0 1 1 Liberal Democrats: Thomas Prag: 902 23.0 2 1 Labour: John Holden: 671 17.1 4 4 Independent: Jim Crawford: 524 13.4 3 4 Conservative: Donald MacDonald 413 10.5 Independent: Barrie Haycock 353 9.0