Scottish local elections, 1999

6 May 1999 (1999-05-06)

All 1,222 seats to Scottish councils

	First party	Second party

Leader	Donald Dewar	Alex Salmond
Party	Labour	SNP
Last election		444,918
Seats won	550	204
Seat change	63	23
Popular vote	829,921	655,299
Percentage	36.6	28.7
Swing

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	David McLetchie	Jim Wallace
Party	Conservative	Liberal Democrats
Last election	82	121
Seats won	108	156
Seat change	26	35
Popular vote	308,170	289,236
Percentage	13.5.	12.7
Swing

Colours denote the winning party with outright control

Colours denote the party with the most seats

Colours denote party of the elected councillor for each ward

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:
Fifelost 12 seats.
Glasgow lost 4 seats.

Results

Summary of the 1999 Scottish council election results^[3]


Parties		Votes	Votes %	Wards	Wards %	Net Gain/Loss
	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		Control before election (if different)		Details
Aberdeen City	Labour		Labour	Details
Aberdeenshire	No overall control		No overall control
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
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
Stirling	Labour	NOC	No overall control (Lab minority)
West Dunbartonshire	Labour		Labour
West Lothian	Labour		Labour

Notes and references

↑ http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/1999/01/9e4343f1-64d7-48fa-9458-a44f88521669
↑ http://www.scottishpolitics.org/local/councilcomp99.html
↑ Denver, David; Bochel, Hugh (Winter 2000), "The Forgotten Elections: The Scottish Council Elections of 1999", Scottish Affairs (PDF), 30

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Scottish local elections, 1999

Boundary changes

Results

Councils

See also

Notes and references