Election Name: | 1999 Scottish local elections |
Country: | Scotland |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1995 Scottish local elections |
Previous Year: | 1995 |
Next Election: | 2003 Scottish local elections |
Next Year: | 2003 |
Seats For Election: | All 1,222 seats to Scottish councils |
Leader1: | Donald Dewar |
Party1: | Scottish Labour |
Popular Vote1: | 829,921 |
Percentage1: | 36.6% |
Seats1: | 550 |
Seat Change1: | 63 |
Swing1: | 7.0% |
Leader2: | Alex Salmond |
Party2: | Scottish National Party |
Popular Vote2: | 655,299 |
Percentage2: | 28.7% |
Seats2: | 204 |
Seat Change2: | 23 |
Swing2: | 2.6% |
Leader4: | David McLetchie |
Party4: | Scottish Conservatives |
Popular Vote4: | 308,170 |
Seats4: | 108 |
Seat Change4: | 26 |
Percentage4: | 13.5% |
Swing4: | 2.0% |
Leader5: | Jim Wallace |
Party5: | Scottish Liberal Democrats |
Popular Vote5: | 289,236 |
Seats5: | 156 |
Seat Change5: | 35 |
Percentage5: | 12.7% |
Swing5: | 2.9% |
Map Size: | 350px |
Local elections were held in Scotland on 6 May 1999, the same day as First Scottish Parliament elections. It was the second election for all 32 Scottish councils and the first after a major review into all wards.
A Major review of all boundaries took place before the 1999 elections as part of the third comprehensive review by the independent Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland [1] which resulted in an overall reduction of wards to 1222 instead of 1245 and many wards were restructured.[2]
NOT a full list:
|-!colspan=2|Parties!Votes!Votes %!Wards!Wards %!Net
Gain/Loss|-| ||829,921||36.6||550||45.0 || |-| ||655,299||28.7||204||16.7 |||-| ||289,236||12.7||156||12.8|||-| ||308,170||13.5||108||8.8|||-| ||172,297||7.5||191||16.0|||-| style="width: 10px" bgcolor=|| style="text-align: left;" scope="row" | Other||30,342||1.0||9||0.7|||-!colspan=2|Total! 2,285,345!n/a!1222!n/a!n/a|}