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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 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 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 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
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.
Nairn and Cawdor - 4 seats ; Party Candidate FPv% Count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SNP: Paul Oldham: 27.2 1,401 Independent: Laurie Fraser () : 23.6 1,215 ...
The areas are similar to the districts which were abolished in 1996, when the Highland region became a unitary council area. There are plans to use new larger wards for the next general election, each electing three or four councillors by the single transferable vote system. The total number of councillors will remain the same.
The third set of Highland Council wards, [1] 22 in number, became effective for election purposes in 2007, for the fourth general election of the Highland Council.The new wards were created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, and are as defined in recommendations of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland.