Highland Council Election: Aird and Loch Ness declares as human rights lawyer and another Green is elected replacing former council leader and Inverness Provost
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In Brief
Those Elected (tallies of first preference votes):
Chris Ballance, Scottish Greens – 578
Helen Crawford, Scottish Conservative and Unionist – 1099
David Fraser, Independent – 1182
Emma Knox SNP – 1364
Those Not Elected
Aarron Duncan-Macleod, Independent
Holly Kingham, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Michael Perera, Scottish Labour Party
Main Issues: mass tourism, renewable energy, potholes, housing, education
Conservative Helen Crawford, a lawyer who worked for the Foreign Office, and Chris Ballance, the Highland Green co-convenor have been elected to represent Ward 12.
They join two incumbents Emma Knox of the SNP and the Independent David Fraser.
The final tallies given represent the first preference votes before the Single Transferable Vote System calculations are made.