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[edit] Councillors
The Highland Council represents 22 wards, of which each elects three or four councillors by the single transferable vote system of election, to produce a form of proportional representation in a council of 80 members.
[edit] Political representation
The most recent general election of the council was on 3 May 2007, and the first meeting of the new council, on 17 May, elected an independent member as convener of the council and a Scottish National Party member as vice-convener.[2]
Independents and parties now hold seats as follows:[3]
- 34 independent councillors
- 21 Liberal Democrat councillors
- 17 Scottish National Party councillors
- 7 Labour Party councillors
- 1 non-aligned independent councillor
One of the Liberal Democrat members joined that party after his election to the council, on 3 May, as an independent, and another member left that party to sit as an independent. Another independent later joined the SNP and, later still, an SNP councillor was expelled from that party group[4] and now sits as a non-aligned independent.
[edit] Members of the Scottish Parliament
For elections to the Scottish Parliament the Highland area is within the Highlands and Islands electoral area, which elects eight first past the post constituency Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) and seven additional member MSPs. Three of the region's constituencies, each electing one MSP, are within the Highland area: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber and Ross, Skye and Inverness West.
[edit] Members of Parliament
In the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom the Highland area is represented by Members of Parliament (MPs) elected from three constituencies: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross; Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey; and Ross, Skye and Lochaber. Each constituency elects one MP by the first past the post system of election.
[edit] Towns and villages in the Highland Council Area
- Alness, Altnaharra, Applecross, Aviemore, Avoch
- Back of Keppoch, Ballachulish, Bettyhill
- Cromarty
- Dalwhinnie, Dingwall, Dornoch, Durness
- Fearn,Fort Augustus, Fortrose, Fort William
- Gairloch
- Glencoe, Golspie
- Helmsdale
- Invergordon
- Inverness
- John o' Groats
- Kingussie, Kinlochbervie, Kinlochleven, Kyle of Lochalsh
- Mallaig
- Nairn, Newtonmore, North Ballachulish
- Plockton
- Portmahomack
- Rosemarkie
- South Ballachulish
- Tain, Thurso, Tobermory, Tongue, Torridon
- Ullapool
- Wick
[edit] Places of interest in the Highland Council Area
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- , ' Gàidhealtachd' in 'Sgìre Comhairle na Gàidhealtachd' is used to translate 'Highland'
In other contexts it is used to translate 'Scottish Highlands' and 'Gaeldom'
- , Top Two Elected At The Highland Council, Highland Council news release, 17 May 2007
- , Political representation, Highland Council website, accessed 3 March 2008
- , SNP group expels youngest councillor, The Press and Journal, 3 April 2008, accessed 10 April 2008
[edit] External links
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Coordinates: 57°30'N 5°00'W? / ?57.5, -5
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