Scottish local elections, 2017

4 May 2017 (2017-05-04)

All 1,223 seats to 32 Scottish councils


Leader	Nicola Sturgeon	Kezia Dugdale
Party	SNP	Labour
Leader since	14 November 2014	15 August 2015
Last election	425 seats, 32.33%	394 seats, 31.39%


Leader	Ruth Davidson	Willie Rennie
Party	Conservative	Liberal Democrats
Leader since	4 November 2011	17 May 2011
Last election	115 seats, 13.27%	71 seats, 6.62%

The next Scottish local elections will take place in 2017, on Thursday 4 May. They will be for all 32 local authorities (see Local government in Scotland).

The last election was in 2012, normally these elections take place every four years, but this has been postponed for a year in order to avoid clashing with the next Scottish Parliament election, due to take place in 2016.

Once again the local elections will be counted electronically using the same system used in 2012. The tender was awarded to CGI (formerly Logica) and Idox Elections (formerly Opt2vote) both of which delivered the 2012 elections successfully.

Elections and referendums in Scotland

Parliamentary elections	Pre-1707 1999 2003 2007 2011 2016

Local elections	1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1977 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1995 1999 2003 2007 2012 2017

Referendums	1979 1997 2014

Local referendums	Scottish licensing referendums, 1920 Strathclyde (water) 1994 Edinburgh (congestion charge) 2005

See also: Elections in Great Britain (1707–1800) United Kingdom Politics of Scotland

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