2022 Scottish local elections

The 2022 Scottish local elections are due to take place on 5 May 2022, as part of the 2022 United Kingdom local elections. All 1,219 seats across all 32 Scottish local authorities will be up for election.

2022 Scottish local elections
5 May 2022 (2022-05-05)
All 1,219 seats[1] to 32 Scottish councils
 
Leader Nicola Sturgeon Douglas Ross Anas Sarwar
Party SNP Conservative Labour
Last election 431 seats, 32.30% 276 seats, 25.30% 262 seats, 20.16%
 
Leader None Alex Cole-Hamilton Lorna Slater and
Patrick Harvie
(co-leaders)
Party Independent Liberal Democrats Green
Last election 168 seats, 10.4% 67 seats, 6.82% 19 seats, 4.1%

In the previous elections in 2017, the Scottish National Party (SNP) maintained its position as largest party in local government, while the Scottish Conservatives displaced Scottish Labour as the second-largest party. Independent candidates, the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Greens also won councillors across Scotland.

Background

The last election was in 2017, which was held five years after the 2012 election, instead of four was changed in order to avoid clashing with the 2016 Scottish Parliament election.

Boundaries Scotland have conducted a review of electoral arrangements for six councils under the terms of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018.[2] The Scottish Parliament's Local Government Committee accepted the new boundaries in Na h-Eileanan an Iar, North Ayrshire, Orkney and Shetland, but recommended against approval of the changes in Argyll and Bute and Highland.[3]

Eligibility to vote

All registered electors (British citizens and all other foreign nationals with leave to remain, including refugees[4]) who are aged 16 or over on polling day are entitled to vote in the local elections. A person who has two homes (such as a university student who has a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) can register to vote at both addresses as long as they are not in the same electoral area, and can vote in the local elections for the two different local councils.[5]

Individuals must be registered to vote by midnight twelve working days before polling day.

Councils

2017 results

The table shows the number of councillors won by each party in the 2017 Scottish local elections. Parties with coloured cells are part of governing coalitions or are the council administration. The party of the council leader is bold and marked with an asterisk (*).

Council SNP Con Lab Ind Lib Dem Green Others
Aberdeen 19 11 9* 2 4 – –
Aberdeenshire 21 23* 1 10 14 1 –
Angus 9 8 – 9* 2 1 –
Argyll and Bute 11 9 – 10 6* 1 –
Clackmannanshire 8* 5 5 – – – –
Dumfries and Galloway 11 16 11* 4 1 – –
Dundee 14* 3 9 1 2 – –
East Ayrshire 14* 6 9 2 – – 1[lower-alpha 1]
East Dunbartonshire 7 6 2 1 6* – –
East Lothian 6 7 9* – – – –
East Renfrewshire 5* 7 4 2 – – –
Edinburgh 19* 18 12 – 6 8 –
Falkirk 12* 7 9 2 – – –
Fife 29* 15 24* – 7 – –
Glasgow 39* 8 31 – – 7 –
Highland 22 10 3 28* 10 1 –
Inverclyde 7 2 8* 4 1 – –
Midlothian 6 5 7* – – – –
Moray 9* 8 1 8 – – –
Na h-Eileanan Siar 7 1 – 23* – – –
North Ayrshire 11 7 11* 4 – – –
North Lanarkshire 33 10 32* 2 – – –
Orkney – – – 18* – 1 2[lower-alpha 2]
Perth and Kinross 15 17* 1 3 4 – –
Renfrewshire 10* 8 13 2 1 – –
Scottish Borders 9 15* – 8 2 – –
Shetland 1 – – 21* – – –
South Ayrshire 9* 12 5 2 – – –
South Lanarkshire 27* 14 22 – 1 – –
Stirling 9* 9 4 – – 1 –
West Dumbartonshire 10* 2 8 1 – – 1[lower-alpha 3]
West Lothian 13 7 12* 1 – – –

Opinion polling
Date(s)
conducted		 Polling organisation/client Sample size SNP Con Lab Lib Dem Green Alba Others
20–26 Oct 2021Panelbase/Scot Goes Pop1,00145%22%21%6%4%2%<1%
4 May 20172017 Scottish local elections1,889,65832.30%25.30%20.16%6.82%4.1%-10.4%

See also

References and note
  1. The Rubbish Party
  2. Orkney Manifesto Group
  3. West Dunbartonshire Community Party
  1. http://www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk/reviews/5th_electoral/01_resources/News_release_260516.pdf
  2. "2019 Reviews of Electoral Arrangements | Scottish Boundary Commission". boundaries.scot. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  3. "Electoral Arrangements Regulations" (PDF). Scottish Parliament. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  4. "Right to vote extended". www.gov.scot. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  5. Electoral Commission. "I have two homes. Can I register at both addresses?". electoralcommission.org.uk. The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
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