Tain and Easter Ross (ward)

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

Year	Councillors
2007		Alasdair Rhind (Ind.)		Alan Torrance (Ind.)		Richard Durham (Liberal Democrats)
2011	Fiona Robertson (Ind.)
2012			Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrats)
2017				Derek Louden (SNP)
2017			Alasdair Rhind (Ind.)
2022		Sarah Rawlings (Liberal Democrats)
2023		Maureen Ross (Ind.)
2024	Laura Dundas (Ind.)
2025				Connie Ramsay (Liberal Democrats)

Election results

2025 by-election

Tain and Easter Ross by-election (25 September 2025) - 1 seat

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Liberal Democrats	Connie Ramsay	38.8	935	944	971	1,042	1,141	1,584
	Independent	Eric Nimmons	28.4	686	704	712	812	924
	SNP	Peter Newman	14.8	356	359	392	405
	Reform	Stuart Wilson	12.9	312	319	322
	Green	Andrew Barnett	3.2	78	82
	Conservative	Manuel Androulakis	1.9	45
Electorate: 7,183   Valid: 2,430   Spoilt: 18   Quota: 1,207   Turnout: 33.8%

Source:^[2][3]

2024 by-election

Tain and Easter Ross by-election (13 June 2024) - 1 seat

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
	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%

Source:^[4][5]

2023 by-election

Tain and Easter Ross by-election (28 September 2023) - 1 seat

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
	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%

Source:^[6][7]

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Highland Council election

Tain and Easter Ross - 3 seats

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%

Source:^[8][9]

2017 by-election

Tain and Easter Ross By-election (28 September 2017)^[10]

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

2017 Highland Council election^[11]

Tain and Easter Ross - 3 seats^[12][13]

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

2012 Highland Council election

Tain and Easter Ross - 3 seats

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

Tain and Easter Ross By-Election (9 June 2011)- 1 seat^[14]

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

2007 Highland Council election

The Highland Council election, 2007: Tain and Easter Ross

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