1999 Scottish local elections
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Colours denote the winning party with outright control |
The Scottish local elections, 1999 were held on 6 May 1999, the same day as First Scottish Parliament elections. It was the second election for all 32 Scottish councils and the first after a major review into all wards.
Boundary changes[]
A Major review of all boundaries took place before the 1999 elections as part of the third comprehensive review by the independent Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland [1] which resulted in an overall reduction of wards to 1222 instead of 1245 and many wards were restructured.[2]
NOT a full list:
- Aberdeen Lost 7 seats
- Aberdeenshire Gained :
- Argyll & Bute Gained
- Dumfries & Galloway Lost
- Falkirk Lost 4 seats:
- Fife lost 12 seats.
- Glasgow lost 4 seats.
Results[]
Parties | Votes | Votes % | Wards | Wards % | Net Gain/Loss | |
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Labour | 829,921 | 36.6 | 550 | 45.0 | ||
SNP | 655,299 | 28.7 | 204 | 16.7 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 289,236 | 12.7 | 156 | 12.8 | ||
Conservative | 308,170 | 13.5 | 108 | 8.8 | ||
Independent | 172,297 | 7.5 | 191 | 16.0 | ||
Other | 30,342 | 1.0 | 9 | 0.7 | ||
Total | 2,285,345 | n/a | 1222 | n/a | n/a |
- Voter turnout: 59.1%
Councils[]
Council | 1995 result | Control before election (if different) |
1999 result | Details | ||
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Aberdeen City | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Aberdeenshire | No overall control | No overall control | Details | |||
Angus | SNP | SNP | ||||
Argyll and Bute | Independent | Independent | ||||
Clackmannanshire | Labour | No overall control | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Labour | Labour | ||||
Dundee City | Labour | No overall control | ||||
East Ayrshire | Labour | Labour | ||||
East Dunbartonshire | Labour | NOC | No overall control | |||
East Lothian | Labour | Labour | ||||
East Renfrewshire | No overall control | No overall control | ||||
City of Edinburgh | Labour | Labour | ||||
Falkirk | Labour | No overall control | ||||
Fife | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Glasgow City | Labour | Labour | ||||
Highland | Independent | Independent | Details | |||
Inverclyde | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Midlothian | Labour | Labour | ||||
Moray | SNP | No overall control | ||||
Na h-Eileanan Siar | Independent | Independent | ||||
North Ayrshire | Labour | Labour | ||||
North Lanarkshire | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Orkney | Independent | Independent | ||||
Perth and Kinross | SNP | NOC | No overall control | |||
Renfrewshire | No overall control | NOC | Labour | |||
Scottish Borders | No overall control | No overall control | ||||
Shetland | Independent | Independent | ||||
South Ayrshire | Labour | Labour | ||||
South Lanarkshire | Labour | Labour | Details | |||
Stirling | Labour | NOC | No overall control (Lab minority) | |||
West Dunbartonshire | Labour | Labour | ||||
West Lothian | Labour | Labour |
See also[]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111003123646/http://www.scottishaffairs.org/backiss/pdfs/sa30/SA30_Denver_and_Bochel.pdf Detail report into the elections
- http://www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk/reports/eareports3rd.asp Review of the Third Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements which took place between 1996 and 1998.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120419140103/http://www.research.plymouth.ac.uk/elections/elections/1999data.htm More details about 1999 elections.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote_99/locals_99/html/index.stm
Notes and references[]
- ^ "Council ward boundary changes". scotland.gov.uk. 21 January 1999. Archived from the original on 2012-04-27.
- ^ "Unitary Council Political Compositions". scottishpolitics.org. Archived from the original on 2004-12-11.
- ^ Denver, David; Bochel, Hugh (Winter 2000), "The Forgotten Elections: The Scottish Council Elections of 1999", Scottish Affairs (PDF), vol. 30, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-03, retrieved 2011-07-14
Categories:
- 1999 Scottish local elections
- Council elections in Scotland
- 1999 in Scotland
- May 1999 events in the United Kingdom