Tain and Easter Ross is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. Between the Cromarty Firth and the Dornoch Firth and east of the Cromarty Firth ward, it includes the town of Tain and the Seaboard Villages. It elects three Councillors.
Location of the ward [1]
Councillors
edit| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Alasdair Rhind (Ind.) |
Alan Torrance (Ind.) |
Richard Durham (Liberal Democrats) | |||||
| 2011 by- | Fiona Robertson (Ind.) | |||||||
| 2012 | Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrats) | |||||||
| 2017 | Derek Louden (SNP) | |||||||
| Sep 2017 | Alasdair Rhind (Ind.) | |||||||
| 2022 | Sarah Rawlings (Liberal Democrats) | |||||||
| Sep 2023 | Maureen Ross (Ind.) | |||||||
Election results
edit2024 by-election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Independent | Laura Dundas | 36.0 | 895 | 898 | 938 | 946 | 997 | 1,179 | 1,582 | |
| SNP | Gordon Allison | 25.4 | 630 | 636 | 643 | 682 | 689 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Barbara Cohen | 25.0 | 621 | 625 | 637 | 668 | 708 | 890 | ||
| Conservative | Eva Short | 5.4 | 134 | 135 | 143 | 145 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Andrew Barnett | 3.6 | 89 | 94 | 95 | |||||
| Independent | John Shearer | 3.6 | 89 | 91 | ||||||
| Scottish Libertarian | Harry Christian | 1.0 | 25 | |||||||
| Electorate: 7,179 Valid: 2,483 Spoilt: 24 Quota: 1,242 Turnout: 34.9% | ||||||||||
2023 by-election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Independent | Maureen Ross | 41.5 | 1,022 | 1,025 | 1,033 | 1,058 | 1,131 | 1,312 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Charles Stephen | 24.5 | 603 | 605 | 618 | 644 | 705 | 801 | |
| SNP | Gordon Allison | 18.8 | 464 | 467 | 491 | 506 | 514 | ||
| Conservative | Veronica Morrison | 8.4 | 207 | 210 | 210 | 216 | |||
| Labour | Michael Perera | 3.6 | 88 | 90 | 96 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Andrew Barnett | 2.3 | 56 | 58 | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | Harry Christian | 0.9 | 23 | ||||||
| Electorate: 7,226 Valid: 2,463 Spoilt: 25 Quota: 1,232 Turnout: 34.4% | |||||||||
2022 election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| SNP | Derek Louden (incumbent) | 30.6 | 1,051 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Sarah Rawlings | 21.5 | 739 | 780 | 922 | |
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind (incumbent) | 21.1 | 726 | 776 | 876 | |
| Independent | Fiona Robertson (incumbent) | 16.1 | 554 | 604 | 668 | |
| Conservative | Veronica Morrison | 10.6 | 364 | 368 | ||
| Electorate: 7,234 Valid: 3,434 Spoilt: 37 Quota: 859 Turnout: 48% | ||||||
2017 by-election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind | 48.8% | 1,266 | 1,267 | 1,290 | |
| SNP | Stan Peace | 23.6% | 612 | 616 | 634 | |
| Liberal Democrats | William Sinclair | 14.3% | 372 | 376 | 387 | |
| Conservative | Eva Short | 9.0% | 233 | 236 | 243 | |
| Independent | Gerald Holdsworth | 2.6% | 68 | 69 | ||
| Scottish Libertarian | Harry Christian | 0.5% | 13 | |||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 2,564 Spoilt: 29 Quota: 1,283 Turnout: 2,593 (36.1%) | ||||||
2017 election
edit2017 Highland Council election[9]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Independent | Fiona Robertson (incumbent) | 20.32% | 708 | 751 | 903 | ||||
| SNP | Derek Louden | 23.85% | 831 | 847 | 870 | 874 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Jamie Stone (incumbent) † | 19.49% | 679 | 696 | 851 | 860 | 861 | 1,342 | |
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind (incumbent) | 16.33% | 569 | 587 | 722 | 736 | 736 | ||
| Conservative | Ron Ferguson | 16.02% | 558 | 583 | |||||
| Independent | Sandra Skinner | 3.99% | 139 | ||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 3,484 Spoilt: 64 Quota: 872 Turnout: 49.9% | |||||||||
2012 election
edit2012 Highland Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind (incumbent) | 32.67% | 1,008 | |||||||
| Independent | Fiona Robertson (incumbent) | 24.44% | 754 | 861.9 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Jamie Stone | 16.47% | 508 | 560.7 | 591.2 | 598.9 | 611.6 | 639.2 | 774.9 | |
| SNP | Charlie Falconer | 13.61% | 420 | 432.2 | 441.8 | 446.8 | 450.9 | 468.8 | 514.8 | |
| Independent | Richard Durham (incumbent) | 8.14% | 250 | 284.9 | 312.6 | 315.9 | 333.2 | 347.2 | ||
| Labour | Ron Stevenson | 2.53% | 78 | 81 | 82.8 | 86.2 | 89.6 | |||
| Conservative | David Rutherford | 1.43% | 44 | 48.7 | 52.3 | 54.1 | ||||
| TUSC | Sean Robertson | 0.74% | 23 | 24.9 | 27.2 | |||||
| Electorate: 7,051 Valid: 3,085 Spoilt: 21 Quota: 772 Turnout: 3,106 (44.05%) | ||||||||||
2011 by-election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Derek William Louden | 33.2 | 837 | 860 | 928 | 1,037 | 1,037 | |
| Independent | Fiona Robertson | 32.2 | 811 | 840 | 933 | 1,204 | 1,204 | |
| Independent | Ruairidh MacKenzie | 18.54 | 467 | 481 | 547 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Antony Gardner | 12.19 | 307 | 318 | ||||
| Independent | Michael Herd | 3.9 | 97 | |||||
| Electorate: 6,962 Valid: 2,519 Spoilt: 17 Quota: 1,260 Turnout: 2,536 | ||||||||
2007 election
edit2007 Highland Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind | 1,406 | 36.2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Richard Durham | 627 | 16.2 | 2 | 8 | |
| SNP | Jim McCreath | 465 | 12.0 | |||
| Independent | Alan Torrance | 436 | 11.2 | 3 | 10 | |
| Independent | Murray MacLeod | 294 | 7.6 | |||
| Independent | Michael Herd | 204 | 5.3 | |||
| Labour | Sunny Moodie | 148 | 3.8 | |||
| Conservative | David Rutherford | 124 | 3.2 | |||
| Independent | John Boocock | 116 | 3.0 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Donnie Fraser | 59 | 1.5 | |||
References
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