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[edit] Re Members of the National Assembly for Wales
[edit] Members by constituency and region
[edit] Constituency members
[edit] Additional members by region
[edit] Memebers by name
[edit] Boundary Commissioners for Scotland
The Boundary Commissioners for Scotland were appointed under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, which created county councils for the counties of Scotland. The Commissioners were empowered to:
- Form electoral divisions for elections to the county councils
- Simplify boundaries of counties and parishes
- Arbitrate between bodies affected by the legislation with respect to disputes arising from the legislation's implementation
[edit] Re Areas of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, capital of Scotland, is itself a council area with city status. Also, however, there are more historic senses of Edinburgh, as a city, and as a royal burgh, (as areas smaller than the existing city council area), and the city council area now includes various other former burghs, numerous other urban areas, and extensive rural areas.
[edit] Edinburgh areas
Edinburgh has history as a royal burgh and a county of city. The boundaries of the modern city council area date from 1975, when the county of city was merged into the City of Edinburgh district of the Lothian region. The district became a unitary council area in 1996.
[edit] Old Town
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[edit] New Town
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[edit] Former burghs
[edit] Canongate
[edit] Leith
The royal burgh of Leith was merged into Edinburgh, the county of city, in 1920, but retains a strong ongoing sense of separate identity. Consequently a parliamentary constituency is "Edinburgh North and Leith", not simply "Edinburgh North"
[edit] Portobello
Portobello was merged into Edinburgh, the county of city, in 1896.
[edit] Portsburgh
[edit] Queensferry
[edit] Full list of areas
[edit] Re Aberdeen
[edit] City Council
Aberdeen City Council, as currently constituted, was created in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, to represent the Aberdeen City council area, created at the same time.
[edit] Political composition
The council consists, currently, of 20 Liberal Democrat councillors, 14 Labour councillors, 6 Scottish National Party councillors and three Conservative councillors.
The council has been under the control of a Liberal Democrat and Conservative coalition, holding 23 of the 43 council seats, since 2003. Prior to the 2003 election, the council had been considered a Labour stronghold.
All seats will become vacant for the next general election to the council in 2007, polling on Thursday 5 May. This election will be the first to use the single transferable vote system and multi-member wards, each ward electing three or four councillors. The new system is to be introduced as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, and is designed to produce a form of proportional representation.
[edit] Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire constituencies
There was an Aberdeenshire constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1868. This constituency did not include the parliamentary burgh of Aberdeen, which was represented as a component of Aberdeen District of Burghs until 1832, when it was enlarged and became the Aberdeen burgh constituency. The other components of the district of burghs became components of the then new Montrose District of Burghs.
In 1868 the Aberdeenshire constituency was divided to form two new county divisions, or county constituencies, namely Eastern Aberdeenshire and Western Aberdeenshire.
In 1885 the Aberdeen burgh constituency was divided to form the burgh constituencies of Aberdeen North and Aberdeen South.
In 1918 Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire were treated as if a single county for parliamentary representation purposes, with the area of the Kincardineshire county constituency and the Aberdeenshire constituencies being divided into three new constituencies, Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen and Kincardine Central and Aberdeen and Kincardine East. Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire included the whole of the former Kincardineshire consituency.
In 1950 the area of the former Kincardinshire constituency (as abolished in 1918) was merged into a the then new North Angus and Mearns constituency, and the Aberdeenshire area was divided into the Aberdeenshire East constituency and the Aberdeenshire West constituency, but the boundary between these new eastern and western constituencies differed from that for the constituencies of the 1868 to 1918 period.
Boundary changes in 1955 enlarged the Aberdeenshire West constituency, and reduced the size of the Aberdeenshire East constituency.
In 1983, eight years after the local government county of Aberdeenshire was abolished, the Aberdeenshire constituencies were replaced with new constrituencies.
[edit] Aberdeenshire and Kincardine East
| Aberdeenshire and Kincardine East County constituency |
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| Created: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Aberdeen and Kincardine East was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1950.
[edit] Member of parliament
- 1918 Sir William Henry Cowan
- 1922 Frederick Martin
- 1924 Sir Robert John Graham Boothby, later Baron Boothby
[edit] Aberdeen and Kincardine Central
| Aberdeen and Kincardine Central County constituency |
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| Created: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Aberdeen and Kincardine Central was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1950.
[edit] Member of Parliament
- 1918 Alexander Theodore Gordon
- 1919 Murdoch McKenzie Wood
- 1924 Sir Robert Workman Smith
- 1945 Henry Reginald Spence
[edit] Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West
| Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West County constituency |
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| Created: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1950.
[edit] Member of Parliament
- 1918 Arthur Cecil Murray, later Viscount Elibank
- 1923 Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
- 1929 James Scott
- 1931 Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
- 1939 Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley
[edit] Sutherland local government
Sutherland (Cataibh in Gaelic) is a management area of Highland Council, Scotland; a lieutenancy area; and a registration county. Council decisions affecting the management area are made by an area committee, but the boundary of the area represented by councillors on the committee is not exactly that of the management area. The committee will be abolished with the election of a new Highland Council on 3 May 2007, and Sutherland will be divided between two ward management area within the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross corporate management area. The population of the registration county as at the 2001 Census was 13,466.
The county has the county of Caithness to the north and east, and the county of Ross and Cromarty to the south.
Sutherland was formerly a local government county, until 1975. The county had its own county council from 1890 to 1975, and the name was used also for a district of the Highland region (1975 to 1996), and the Sutherland constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (1708 to 1918). The boundaries of Sutherland are not identical in all contexts.
The constituency consisted of the county, minus the parliamentary burgh of Dornoch.
Sutherland (by any definition) is very sparsely populated. Its only burgh is the county town, Dornoch. Other settlements include Lairg, Brora, Durness, Embo, Tongue, Golspie, Helmsdale, Lochinver and Kinlochbervie.
[edit] Local government
- See also: Politics of the Highland council area
[edit] County, burgh and parishes, 1890 to 1975
Sutherland became a local government county, with its own elected county council, in 1890, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889. At that time, one town within the county, Dornoch, was already well established as an autonomous burgh with its own burgh council. Parish councils, covering rural areas of the county were established in 1894.
Dornoch, a royal burgh, served as the county's administrative centre.
The parish councils were abolished in 1931 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929. The county council and the burgh council were abolished in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The 1973 act also created a new two tier system, with Sutherland as a district within the Highland region.
[edit] District, 1975 to 1996
In 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, the county was divided between Caithness and Sutherland local government districts within the Highland Regions and districts of Scotland, with Tongue and Farr areas of the county of Sutherland becoming part of the Caithness district (which also included the area of the county of Caithness). Also, the Kincardine area of the county of Ross and Cromarty was merged into the new Sutherland district. Shortly after its creation, however the boundary between the districts of Sutherland and Caithness were redrawn to follow that between the counties.
The region was also created in 1975, as one of nine two-tier local government regions of Scotland. Each region consisted of a number of districts and both regions and districts had their own elected councils. The creation of the Highland region and of Sutherland as a district involved the abolition of the one burgh council in Sutherland, Dornoch, as well as the Sutherland county council.
In 1996 local government in Scotland was again reformed, to create 32 unitary council areas. The Highland region became the Highland unitary council area, and the functions of the district councils were absorbed by the Highland Council.
[edit] Management area and area committees, 1996 to 2007
In 1996 the Sutherland local government district was merged in to the untitary Highland council area, under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994.
Since then the Highland Council has used management areas corresponding with the areas of the former districts. Also, it has maintained area committees of elected councillors named for the former districts but, since 1999, the boundaries of the committee areas have been out of alignment with those of the management areas.
The Sutherland committee area consists of six out of the 80 Highland Council wards. Each ward is represented by one councilor, elected by the first past the post system of election.
New wards have been created for elections this year, 2007, polling on 3 May and, as the wards become effective for representational purposes, the Sutherland area committee will cease to exist. An area similar to that of the committee area will be divided between two wards, each electing three councillors by the single transferable vote system of election. The new wards will be within the council's Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross operational management area.
[edit] New ward management areas (from 2007)
After elections on 3 May 3 2007, and under a reorganised Highland Council, there will be two Sutherland ward management areas, North, West and Central Sutherland and East Sutherland and Edderton, within the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross corporate management area, which will cover five ward management areas.
The Sutherland ward management areas will consist of single wards, as will two other ward management areas within Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross. The fifth ward management area will consist of three wards. Therefore the corporate managment area will cover seven wards.
Each ward will elect three or four councillors by the single transferable vote system of election.
[edit] Community councils, 1975 to present (2007)
Although created under local government legislation (the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973) community councils have no statutory powers or responsibilities and are not a tier of local government. They are however the most local tier of statutory representation.
Under the 1973 act, they were created in terms of community council schemes created by the district councils which were created under the same act. The Sutherland district scheme was adopted in 1975.
Statutory status for community councils was continued under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994, and the Sutherland scheme is now the responsibility of the Highland Council.
[edit] Links
- North Head, Wick Bay
- List of Highland Council wards and councillors
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972
- Former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
- Maps of Highland Council committee areas and wards
- 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland
- Edinburgh Central 2003
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh 2003
- Edinburgh North and Leith 2003
- Edinburgh Pentlands 2003
- Edinburgh South 2003
- Edinburgh West 2003
- User:Laurel Bush/Workshop VI
- Ross and Cromarty
- Caithness
- Pultneytown (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Caithness Central (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Caithness North East (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Caithness North West (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Caithness South East (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Thurso East (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Thurso Central (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Thurso West (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Wick (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Wick West (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Tongue and Farr (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Sutherland Central (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Golspie and Rogart (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Brora (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Dornoch Firth (Highland ward) (redirect page)
- Caithness Central ward (redirect page)
- Caithness North East ward (redirect page)
- Caithness North West ward (redirect page)
- Pultneytown ward (redirect page)
- Caithness South East ward (redirect page)
- Thurso East ward (redirect page)
- Thurso Central ward (redirect page)
- Brora ward (redirect page)
- Dornoch Firth ward (redirect page)
- Thurso West ward (redirect page)
- Golspie and Rogart ward (redirect page)
- Sutherland Central ward (redirect page)
- Tongue and Farr ward (redirect page)
- Wick West ward (redirect page)
- Wick ward (redirect page)
- List of Highland council wards (redirect page)
