2017 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar election

Elections to Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) were held on 4 May 2017, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections. The election was the third one using the nine wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004. Each ward elected three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote system: a form of proportional representation. A total of 31 Councillors were elected.

Main article: 2017 Scottish local elections
2017 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar election
4 May 2017 (2017-05-04)
All 31 seats to Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
16 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Roddie MacKay Donald Manford Ranald Fraser
Party Independent SNP Conservative
Last election 25 seats, 71.6 7 seats, 23.8 N/A
Seats before 21 7 0
Seats won 23 7 1
Seat change 2 0 1
Popular vote 9,248 2,287 402
Percentage 77.5% 19.2% 3.4%
Swing 5.9% 4.7% New
Council Leader before election

Angus Campbell
Independent

 Council Leader after election

Roddie MacKay
Independent

As in the previous election in 2012, Independent Councillors retained a large majority of the seats on the Council and retained control of the administration. For the first time in the council's history no women were elected, resulting in it becoming Scotland's only local authority without any female representation.

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