The 1994 Lothian Regional Council election, the sixth election to Lothian Regional Council, was held on 5 May 1994, as part of the wider 1994 Scottish...
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The fourth election to the Lothian Regional Council was held on 3 May 1990 as part of the wider 1990 Scottish regional elections. The result saw Labour...
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regions and districts. Lothian Regional Council formally took over responsibility from the old county councils in May 1975. The Lothian region was split into...
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East Lothian (/ˈloʊðiən/; Scots: Aest Lowden; Scottish Gaelic: Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county...
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The West Lothian question, also known as the English question, is a political issue in the United Kingdom. It concerns the question of whether members...
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Midlothian (redirect from Mid Lothian)
area, East Lothian and the Scottish Borders. Midlothian emerged as a county in the Middle Ages under larger boundaries than the modern council area, including...
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West Lothian (Scots: Wast Lowden; Scottish Gaelic: Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and was one of its historic counties. The...
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Leivinstoun, Scottish Gaelic: Baile Dhunlèibhe) is the largest town in West Lothian, Scotland. Designated in 1962, it is the fourth post-war new town to be...
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(Scotland) Act 1994, the Lothian Regional Council was abolished and the City of Edinburgh became a single-tier council area. The council became "City of...
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District (including Helensburgh) Berwickshire and East Lothian: Berwickshire District, East Lothian District less Musselburgh/Fisherrow, Preston/Levenhall...
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Politics of Edinburgh (redirect from Town Council of Edinburgh)
consisted of Lothian Regional Council (with responsibility for water, education, social work and transport) and the City of Edinburgh District Council (with...
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Scottish Borders (redirect from Borders Regional Council)
Roxburghshire, and Selkirkshire. It is bordered by West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, and East Lothian to the north, the North Sea to the east, Dumfries and...
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candidate in the 1988 Edinburgh District Council elections, and in the 1990 and 1994 Lothian Regional Council elections. She also stood as candidate for Edinburgh...
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The 1994 Scottish regional elections were held in Scotland on 5 May 1994, as part of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. These were the last elections...
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informally. The council areas have been in existence since 1 April 1996, under the provisions of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. Historically...
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Fife (redirect from Fife Regional Council)
Leslie Kincardine Kinghorn Perth and Kinross Dundee East Lothian City of Edinburgh West Lothian Falkirk Clack. Cupar took over as county town from Crail...
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co-convenor Patrick Harvie. Margo MacDonald again won election as an independent on the Lothian regional list. George Galloway, under a Unionist anti-cuts...
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George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
Students before being elected to City of Edinburgh District Council and Lothian Regional Council. After unsuccessfully contesting Edinburgh West in 1970 and...
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Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. Between 1975 and 1992, elections were held every two years for either district or regional council, which sat for four-year...
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candidates on the regional lists, and had a candidate for the local council elections of the same year. Standing in the Glasgow Regional List the party finished...
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Central Region, Scotland (redirect from Central Regional Council)
Stirling Council on the first day of its operations on 1 April 1996 when the Scottish Regional Councils disbanded under the reorganisation act of 1994. 10...
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Local government in Scotland (redirect from Local council in Scotland)
election was the 2022 Scottish local elections and the next election will be the 2027 Scottish local elections. Council administrations typically comprise...
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incumbent Conservative Government (The last elections were in fact the 1994 regional elections). The elections were seen as a test of the Conservative Government...
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Kingdom in the year 1994. Public Telecommunication System Designation (Vodafone Limited) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/1) Oxfordshire County Council (Shifford Island...
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Devolution in the United Kingdom (section Regional)
for by the UK Government and UK Parliament, which gives rise to the West Lothian question. The question concerns the fact that, on devolved matters, Scottish...
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Chair, Regional Council, and local mayors and councils of the RMOC in 1994. The 1994 election was the first election for a separate regional council. Results...
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Berwickshire (redirect from Berwickshire County Council)
called "Merse-men". Berwickshire borders Midlothian to the west, East Lothian to the north, the North Sea to the east, and Roxburghshire and the English...
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these were the last elections to the regional councils before they were abolished by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. Rallings, Colin; Thrasher...
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is also represented by seven regional MSPs representing the Lothian electoral region: The Conservatives have three regional MSPs: Jeremy Balfour, Miles...
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The 6th Scottish Parliament was elected at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. It was opened with the Escort to the Crown of Scotland Parade and Speech...
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