North, West and Central Sutherland (ward)

North, West and Central Sutherland is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It includes the towns and villages of Altnaharra, Ardgay, Bettyhill, Bonar Bridge, Durness, Lairg, Lochinver and Tongue. With Lairg and Bonar being the most populated settlements in the area. It elects three Councillors.

Location of the ward ^[1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Linda Munro (Ind./ Liberal Democrats)		George Farlow (SNP)		Robbie Rowantree (Liberal Democrats)
2012					Hugh Morrison (Ind.)
2017	Kirsteen Currie (SNP)
2022	Michael Baird (Liberal Democrats)	Marianne Hutchison (SNP)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Highland Council election

North, West and Central Sutherland - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	Marianne Hutchison	35.1	968
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Baird	28.0	773
	Independent	Hugh Morrison (incumbent)	17.3	477	573	594	618	657	714
	Conservative	Charlotte Gibson	11.0	302	309	333	338	354	383
	Labour	Clive Soley	3.9	108	164	179	181	197
	Scottish Family	Philipp Tanzer	2.9	80	92	96	107
	Freedom Alliance (UK)	Robert Alan Jardine	1.7	48	58	61
Electorate: 4,998   Valid: 2,756   Spoilt: 32   Quota: 690   Turnout: 55.8%

Source:^[2][3]

2017 election

2017 Highland Council election^[4]

North, West and Central Sutherland - 3 seats^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Munro (incumbent)	17.96%	504	510	521	587	671	899
	Independent	Hugh Morrison (incumbent)	16.85%	473	480	521	556	669	804
	SNP	Kirsteen Currie	19.81%	556	564	571	612	681	689
	Conservative	Russell Taylor	19.84%	557	561	565	622	658
	Independent	Malcolm Bangor-Jones	11.08%	311	327	341	367
	Labour	William Sinclair	9.44%	265	269	274
	Independent	Michael Simpson	3.17%	89	91
	Independent	Brendan O'Hanrahan	1.85%	52
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 2,807   Spoilt: 38   Quota: 702   Turnout: 58.0%

2012 election

2012 Highland Council election

North, West and Central Sutherland - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	George Farlow (incumbent)	26.23%	626
	Independent	Hugh Morrison	22.5%	537	541.5	554.9	563.9	601.3
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Munro (incumbent)†††††††††	18.89%	451	455.6	478.7	506.8	529.2	530.5	566.7	613.4
	Scottish Senior Citizens	Russell Taylor	8.21%	196	199.1	210.5	225.6	235.8	236.2	257.7	349
	Independent	Neil MacInnes	7.21%	172	175.4	180.1	190.1	198.4	198.9	234.1
	Scottish Christian	Hector MacLennan	5.32%	127	127.9	129.1	140.2	147.2	147.6
	Conservative	Les Mason	4.06%	97	97.5	100.6
	Independent	Jess Thomas	4.02%	96	97.7	110.5	118.5
	Scottish Green	Mandy Haggith	3.56%	85	89.9
Electorate: 4,913   Valid: 2,387   Spoilt: 16   Quota: 597   Turnout: 2,403 (48.91%)

2007 election

2007 Highland Council election

The Highland Council election, 2007: North, West and Central Sutherland

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	George Farlow	586	19.9	1	8
	Liberal Democrats	Robbie Rowantree	410	14.0	2	10
	Scottish Senior Citizens	Russel Taylor	314	10.7
	Independent	Linda Munro	303	10.3	3	10
	Independent	David Forbes	297	10.1
	Independent	William Johnston	282	9.6
	Conservative	Margaret Payne	216	7.4
	Labour	Dave Andrews	184	6.3
	Scottish Green	Ailsa Spindler	168	5.7
	Independent	Kirstie Dawson	99	3.4
	Independent	Michael Otter	80	2.7