Inverness Ness-side (ward)

Inverness Ness-side is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It includes Drummond, Hilton and Lochardil areas of Inverness, and a more rural area, east of the River Ness. It elects three Councillors.

Location of the ward ^[1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Norrie Donald (Ind.)		John Finnie (SNP)		David Henderson (Liberal Democrats)		Fraser Parr (Labour)
2012	Jean Slater (SNP)		Alasdair Christie (Liberal Democrats)
2017	3 seats	Ron MacWilliam (SNP)			Callum Smith (Conservative)
2022		Jackie Hendry (SNP)			Andrew MacKintosh (Labour)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Highland Council election

Inverness Ness-side - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Liberal Democrats	Alasdair Christie (incumbent)	44.5	1,934
	SNP	Jackie Hendry	29.2	1,270
	Conservative	Ric Scott	8.7	379	562	564	567	574	672
	Labour	Andrew MacKintosh	6.3	276	453	482	490	606	782	1,016
	Independent	Ron MacWilliam (incumbent)	5.6	243	404	424	431	532
	Green	Claire MacLean	5.2	226	320	405	410
	Scottish Libertarian	Calum Mark Liptrot	0.4	18	29	33
Electorate: 8,857   Valid: 4,346   Spoilt: 33   Quota: 1,087   Turnout: 49.4%

Source:^[2][3]

2017 election

2017 Highland Council election^[4]

Inverness Ness-side - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Liberal Democrats	Alasdair Christie (incumbent)	42.75%	1,739
	SNP	Ron MacWilliam	25.96%	1,056
	Conservative	Callum Smith	14.18%	577	748.2	749.2	756	851.6	1,110.9
	Labour	Fraser Parr (incumbent)	9.27%	377	537.9	546.6	588.2	744.2
	Independent	Jean Slater (incumbent)	6.27%	255	427.06	437.3	471.1
	Scottish Socialist	Feargus Murray	1.57%	64	99.2	105.5
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 4,068   Spoilt: 29   Quota: 1,018   Turnout: 4,097 (51.1%)

2012 election

2012 Highland Council election

Inverness Ness-side - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	SNP	Jean Slater	23.75%	879
	Liberal Democrats	Alasdair Christie *	21.48%	795
	Labour	Fraser Parr (incumbent)	17.83%	660	693.9	705.5	722.9	776.8
	Independent	Norrie Donald (incumbent)	16.78%	621	653.9	671.2	712.1	863.7
	Conservative	Peter Guthrie	8.97%	332	337.5	347.1	367.9	400.9
	Independent	John West	8.05%	298	314.6	319.7	332.6
	Scottish Christian	Alasdair Moodie	3.13%	116	122.3	123.9
Electorate: 8,822   Valid: 3,701   Spoilt: 33   Quota: 741   Turnout: 3,734 (42.33%)

2007 election

2007 Highland Council election

The Highland Council election, 2007: Inverness Ness-side

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Liberal Democrats	David Henderson	1,127	22.5	1	1
	SNP	John Finnie	1,016	20.2	2	1
	Independent	Norrie Donald	750	14.9	3	8
	Labour	Fraser Parr	688	13.7	4	10
	Liberal Democrats	Angus Dick	468	9.3
	Conservative	Margaret MacDonald	361	7.1
	Independent	Thomas Lamont	232	4.6
	Independent	Steve Rodger	226	4.5
	Independent	Jean Slater	82	1.6
	Solidarity	Steve Arnott	70	1.4