Skye and Lochalsh

Coordinates: 57°13′N 5°53′W / 57.217°N 5.883°W / 57.217; -5.883
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council areas of Scotland

Skye and Lochalsh (

region of Scotland. The main offices of the Skye and Lochalsh district council were in Portree, on the Isle of Skye
.

History

As

Ross, Skye and Lochaber corporate management area
.

The 1973 legislation abolished local government

Skye group of Inner Hebridean islands) with the South West district of Ross and Cromarty (consisting of an area around and including the village of Kyle of Lochalsh
).

The 1994 legislation abolished regions and districts and established a system of 32 unitary council areas covering the whole of Scotland, and all of the Highland districts were merged into the new unitary Highland council area.

In 1996 the new

wards of the council area, each electing one councillor
by the first past the post system of election. In 1999 ward boundaries were redrawn to create 80 new wards. Management area boundaries were not redrawn, however, and therefore area committees ceased to represent exactly the areas for which they were named and made decisions. The Skye and Lochalsh committee continued to have six members.

Ward boundaries were redrawn again in 2007, and the council's eight management areas were abolished in favour of three new corporate management areas, including the Ross, Skye and Lochaber area which absorbed the former Skye and Lochalsh area. The Highland council area now has 22 wards and each elects three or four councillors by the single transferable vote system, a system designed to produce a form of proportional representation. The total number of councillors remains the same. The Ross, Skye and Lochaber area consists of six out of the 22 wards and these ward elect 23 of the 80 Highland councillors.

There is also a

House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster
), but its boundaries are not exactly those of the council corporated management area. The constituency was created in 2005 with boundaries based on those of wards in use during the period 1999 to 2007.

The Skye group of islands is now a ward named as the Eilean a' Cheò ward, which elects four councillors. The Lochalsh area is now within the Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh ward, which also elects four councillors.

Coat of arms of Skye and Lochalsh District Council

District coat of arms

The Skye and Lochalsh District Council

Mackenzie of Kintail for the Lochalsh area. The gold coronet above the arms was a special pattern reserved for the arms of Scottish district councils, and was topped by thistle-heads.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ R.M. Urquhart, Scottish Civic Heraldry, Hamilton, 2001

External links

57°13′N 5°53′W / 57.217°N 5.883°W / 57.217; -5.883

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