Scottish local elections, 1995

6 April 1995 (1995-04-06)

1,155 seats to 29 mainland Scottish councils

	First party	Second party

Leader	Tony Blair	Alex Salmond
Party	Labour	SNP
Leader since	21 July 1994	22 September 1990
Seats won	613	181
Popular vote	742,557	444,918
Percentage	43.57	26.11

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	John Major	Jim Wallace
Party	Conservative	Liberal Democrats
Leader since	28 November 1990	18 April 1992
Seats won	82	60
Seat change		20
Popular vote	196,109
Percentage	11.51	12

Colours denote the winning party with outright control

Local elections were held in Scotland on 6 April 1995, as part of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. The elections were held for the 29 new mainland unitary authorities created under the act, which replaced the nine former regions established in 1975. The three island areas (Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles) were retained from the previous system. These areas did not take part in the 1995 election, having held local elections on 5 May 1994.

National results

**Summary of the 5 April 1995 Scottish council election results**
Parties		Votes	Votes %	Councillors
	Labour	742,557	43.57	613
	SNP	444,918	26.11	181
	Conservative	196,109	11.51	82
	Liberal Democrats	166,141	9.79	121
	Independent	130,642	7.67	151
	Other	23,781	1.36	7
Total		1,702,148		1,155

Results by council area

Council		Details
Aberdeen City	Labour
Aberdeenshire	No overall control
Angus	SNP
Argyll and Bute	Independent	Details
Clackmannanshire	Labour
Dumfries and Galloway	Labour
Dundee City	Labour	Details
East Ayrshire	Labour
East Dunbartonshire	Labour
East Lothian	Labour
East Renfrewshire	No overall control
City of Edinburgh	Labour	Details
Falkirk	Labour
Fife	Labour	Details
Glasgow City	Labour	Details
Highland	Independent	Details
Inverclyde	Labour
Midlothian	Labour
Moray	SNP
North Ayrshire	Labour	Details
North Lanarkshire	Labour
Perth and Kinross	SNP
Renfrewshire	No overall control
Scottish Borders	No overall control
South Ayrshire	Labour
South Lanarkshire	Labour
Stirling	Labour
West Dunbartonshire	Labour	Details
West Lothian	Labour

Notes and references

External links

Full list of each area can be found here: http://www.alba.org.uk/elections/local.html
Full Island Authority Elections which took place on 5 May 1994, can be found here: http://www.alba.org.uk/elections/islands.html
Bourneyed review of 1995 seats: http://www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk/reports/ea_formation_1995.asp

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

(1994 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1995 (→ 1996)

Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bradford Bolton Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton

Unitary authorities	Bath and North East Somerset Bristol East Riding of Yorkshire Hartlepool Isle of Wight Kingston upon Hull Middlesbrough North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Redcar and Cleveland South Gloucestershire Stockton-on-Tees York

District councils	Adur Allerdale Alnwick Amber Valley Arun Ashfield Ashford Aylesbury Vale Babergh Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bedford Berwick-upon-Tweed Blaby Blackburn Blackpool Blyth Valley Bolsover Boston Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Braintree Breckland Brentwood Bridgnorth Brighton Broadland Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Canterbury Caradon Carlisle Carrick Castle Morpeth Castle Point Charnwood Chelmsford Cheltenham Cherwell Chesterfield Chester-le-Street Chester Chichester Chiltern Chorley Christchurch Colchester Congleton Copeland Corby Cotswold Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Dacorum Darlington Dartford Daventry Derbyshire Dales Derby Derwentside Dover Durham Easington East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Dorset East Hampshire East Hertfordshire East Lindsey East Northamptonshire East Staffordshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Eden Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fareham Fenland Forest Heath Forest of Dean Fylde Gedling Gillingham Gloucester Gosport Gravesham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halton Hambleton Harborough Harlow Harrogate Hart Hastings Havant Hereford Hertsmere High Peak Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Hove Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Kennet Kerrier Kettering King's Lynn and West Norfolk Lancaster Leicester Leominster Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Mansfield Melton Mendip Mid Bedfordshire Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Milton Keynes Mole Valley New Forest Newbury Newark and Sherwood Newcastle-under-Lyme North Cornwall North Devon North Dorset North East Derbyshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Norfolk North Shropshire North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire North Wiltshire Northampton Norwich Nottingham Nuneaton and Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oswestry Oxford Pendle Penwith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Purbeck Reading Redditch Reigate and Banstead Restormel Ribble Valley Richmondshire Rochester-upon-Medway Rochford Rossendale Rother Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Rutland Ryedale Salisbury Scarborough Sedgefield Sedgemoor Selby Sevenoaks Shepway Shrewsbury and Atcham Slough Spelthorne South Bedfordshire South Bucks South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Hams South Herefordshire South Holland South Lakeland South Kesteven South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Shropshire South Somerset South Staffordshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Edmundsbury Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Suffolk Coastal Surrey Heath Swale Tamworth Tandridge Taunton Deane Teesdale Teignbridge Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thamesdown Thanet The Wrekin Three Rivers Thurrock Tonbridge and Malling Torbay Torridge Tunbridge Wells Tynedale Uttlesford Vale of White Horse Vale Royal Wansbeck Warrington Warwick Watford Waveney Waverley Wealden Wear Valley Wellingborough Welwyn Hatfield West Devon West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire West Somerset West Wiltshire Weymouth and Portland Windsor and Maidenhead Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wycombe Wyre Wyre Forest

Welsh councils	Blaenau Gwent Bridgend Caerphilly Cardiff Carmarthenshire Ceredigion Conwy Denbighshire Flintshire Gwynedd Isle of Anglesey Merthyr Tydfil Monmouthshire Neath Port Talbot Newport Pembrokeshire Powys Rhondda Cynon Taf Swansea Torfaen Vale of Glamorgan Wrexham

Scottish councils	Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll and Bute Clackmannanshire Dumfries and Galloway Dundee East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh Falkirk Fife Glasgow Highland Inverclyde Midlothian Moray North Ayrshire North Lanarkshire Perth and Kinross Renfrewshire Scottish Borders South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling West Dunbartonshire West Lothian

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Scottish local elections, 1995

National results

Results by council area

Notes and references

See also

External links