How many wards and councillors are there?
There are a total of 1222 councillors elected from 353 wards in Scotland’s 32 local authorities – each ward returns either 3 or 4 councillors. You can get a lot more information from the publications page of this website, including a full list of the wards and the number of councillors returned for each local authority, the reports of the Commission’s Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements which led to those ward boundaries, and Information Papers that describe the electoral arrangements for local authorities since 1973.
