Scottish UK Local elections 2017 Results Voting Live Dates Opinion Exit Poll

Scottish Local elections Dates 2017

National Local elections Date: 4 May 2017 

The 2017 Scottish local elections will be held on Thursday 4 May 2017.

Local elections will be held across Great Britain, with elections to English, Scottish, and Welsh councils, as well as elections for the newly created English Regional Mayors.

UK Snap Election 2017 Dates

UK Snap Election 2017 Candidates

United Kingdom Scottish Local elections Results Live 2017

England Council Election Results Live 2017 – 35 Council Results

Scottish Council Election Results Live 2017 – 35 Council Results

Welsh Council Election Results Live 2017 – 35 Council Results

With the results available from 17 councils
4,851 council seats are being contested. Voters will be choosing six new metro mayors
CON win control of five councils
Labour lose two councils in Blaenau Gwent and Bridgend

UK Local Elections Results Live 2017 by Council

Scottish Local Elections Results Live 2017 by Party

Scottish Local Elections Results Live 2017 by Council

 

Scottish Local elections Voting Live 2017

Scottish Local elections will take place on thursday morning 7 am.

1.  All 32 Scottish councils,
2. In total, 4,851 council seats are up for election. According to a BBC News estimate, the major political parties are defending the following numbers of council seats on election day:

Labour – 1,535 seats
Conservatives – 1,136 seats
Lib Dems – 484 seats
SNP – 438 seats
Plaid Cymru – 170 seats
UKIP – 146 seats
Green Party – 34 seats

There are also 687 independent councillors and 4 Mebyon Kernow councillors. The remaining 217 seats are held by residents' associations and minor parties

Electoral system of UK

There are six types of elections in the UK: elections to theHouse of Commons of the Scottish, elections to devolved parliaments and assemblies, elections to the European Parliament, local elections, mayoral elections and Police and Crime Commissioner elections. Within each of those categories, there may be by-elections as well as general elections. Elections are held on Election Day, which is conventionally a Thursday. Since the passing of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 for general elections, all six types of elections are held after fixed periods, though early elections to parliament and the devolved assemblies and parliaments can occur in certain situations. Currently, six electoral systems are used: the single member plurality system (first past the post), the multi member plurality system, party-list proportional representation, the single transferable vote, the additional member system and the supplementary vote.

Opinion Poll for Scottish Local elections 2017

Scottish Local Election Parties and leaders

SNP, Conservative Party, Co-operative Party, Democratic Unionist Party, Labour Party, Democrats, Plaid, Social Democratic and Labour Party, Ulster Unionist Party.

Scottish Councils Local Elections 2017

Non-metropolitan county councils

All 32 county councils for areas with a two-tier structure of local governance will have all of their seats up for election. These will be first-past-the-post elections in a mixture of single-member and multi-member electoral divisions.