Inverness Central (ward)

Location of the ward

Inverness Central is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It includes Dalneigh, Glebe, Haugh, Merkinch and South Kessock areas of urban Inverness. It elects four Councillors.

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Peter Corbett (Ind.)		Donnie Kerr (SNP)		Janet Campbell (Liberal Democrats)		Bet McAllister (Labour)
2012		Richard Laird (SNP)			Janet Campbell (Ind.)
2017	3 seats
Nov 2019		Emma Roddick (SNP)
2022		Michael Cameron (SNP)		Kate MacLean (SNP)

Andrew Teale. "Local Elections Archive Project".

Election Results

2022 Election

2022 Highland Council election

Inverness Central - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Labour	Bet McAllister (incumbent)	24.13%	793	793	805	811	840
	SNP	Michael Cameron	23.40%	769	770	772	773	796	797.4	809.6	867.9
	SNP	Kate MacLean	17.92%	589	589	591	593	612	614.0	628.2	766.7	807.4	867.7
	Conservative	Donald MacKenzie	12.78%	420	421	424	437	455	457.1	510.3	526.6	527.5
	Scottish Green	Arun Sharma	7.46%	245	250	258	262	292	293.8	347.7
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Rattray	6.42%	211	211	212	218	229	234.5
	Independent	Andrew Barnett	4.29%	141	152	162	173
	TUSC	Sean Robertson	1.43%	47	47
	Scottish Family	John William McColl	1.37%	45	50	54
	Independent	Luigi Andrew MacKinnon	0.79%	26
Electorate: 8,647   Valid: 3,286   Spoilt: 76   Quota: 822   Turnout: 38.9%

2019 By-election

Inverness Central By-election (14 November 2019)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	SNP	Emma Roddick	45.15	1,015	1,033	1,115
	Conservative	Rachael Hatfield	15.35	345	349	360
	Independent	Richie Paxton	12.32	277	303	338
	Liberal Democrats	Mary Dormer	10.54	237	266	325
	Scottish Green	Russell Deacon	9.79	220	238
	Labour	Ardalan Eghtedar	6.85	154
Electorate: 8,877   Valid: 2,248   Spoilt: 28   Quota: 1,125   Turnout: 2,276 (25.6%)

2017 Election

2017 Highland Council election

Inverness Central - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Richard Laird (incumbent)†††††††	32.8%	1,122
	Labour	Bet McAllister (incumbent)	16.9%	577	615.5	623.5	665.7	768.8	880.8
	Independent	Janet Campbell (incumbent)	15.3%	522	546.03	560.9	577.8	640.4	828.8	839.4	1,063.4
	Conservative	Donald MacKenzie	12.5%	426	430.3	434.3	474.7	498.04	533.7	536.6
	Independent	Donnie Kerr (incumbent)	10.5%	360	392.8	409.2	420.6	485.1
	Scottish Green	Russell Deacon	6.08%	208	305.09	311.3	346.04
	Liberal Democrats	Margot Kerr	4.5%	154	170.7	172.7
	Independent	Diane Wilkinson	1.5%	50	58.8
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 3,419   Spoilt: 64   Quota: 855   Turnout: 3,483 (39.5%)

2012 Election

2012 Highland Council election

Inverness Central - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Independent	Janet Campbell (incumbent)	29.97%	887
	Labour	Bet McAllister (incumbent)	26.36%	867
	SNP	Donnie Kerr††† (incumbent)	20.43%	672
	SNP	Richard Laird	11.49%	378	420.6	462.5	473.6	490.2	500.5	619.6
	Liberal Democrats	Angus Dick	9.64%	257	316.9	360	360.6	372.9	452.8
	Conservative	Ray Doctor	7.81%	153	175.7	184.4	184.6	210.8
	Scottish Christian	Rich Omand	2.28%	75	91	103.5	103.9
Electorate: 9,251   Valid: 3,289   Spoilt: 59   Quota: 658   Turnout: 3,348 (36.19%)

2007 Election

2007 Highland Council election

The Highland Council election, 2007: Inverness Central

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Donnie Kerr	1,019	21.9	1	1
	Independent	Peter Corbett	776	16.6	4	9
	Liberal Democrats	Janet Campbell	729	15.6	2	6
	Labour	Bet McAllister	720	15.4	3	6
	Independent	William Smith	575	12.3
	Conservative	David Bonsor	268	5.8
	Independent	Ivor Bisset	252	5.4
	Labour	Tej Manda	237	5.1
	Solidarity	George MacDonald	88	1.9