Local Government Elections 5th May 2022 - Results
The election took place on Thursday 5 May 2022.
- Notice of Poll (candidates) and Situation of Polling Places
- List of Election Agents
- Notice of Candidate Election Expenses
Local Councillors are responsible for making decisions on your behalf about local services.
Elections as prescribed by the Scottish Parliament are held every 5 years to elect councillors to 32 local authorities in Scotland. Each local government area in Scotland is divided into electoral wards and there is a separate election for each electoral ward. The number of Councillors returned in each electoral ward is either three or four.
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Councillors are elected through the system which allows voters to express a preference for more than one candidate.
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Welcome to Your Vote
You can vote in Scottish Local Government (council) elections if you are:
- Aged 16 or over on polling day
- A British, Irish or EU citizen living in the UK
- A Commonwealth citizen who has permission to enter or stay in the UK, or who does not require such permission
- A foreign national who has permission to enter or stay in the UK, or who does not require such permission
- Not subject to any legal incapacity to vote
- Registered to vote - if your name isn’t on the electoral register, you can’t take part
It only takes five minutes to register and you can do it online at .
Once you’re registered to vote, there are a number of different ways to have your say in the council elections.
You can vote in person at a polling station (here is a list of polling places in ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ and Bute.
If you can’t vote in person on the day, you can vote by post. You can find out .
You may wish to appoint someone you trust to vote on your behalf - this is known as a proxy vote.
If you, or someone you know, needs information about their vote in another language, please contact elections@argyll-bute.gov.uk for an FAQ guide (this is available in available in Arabic, Farsi, French, Kurdish, Polish, Romanian and Urdu).
You can find more information about voting at the website.