Caol and Mallaig (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

Caol and Mallaig is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It includes the Caol area of the town of Fort William, Arisaig, the town of Mallaig, and the Small Isles. It elects four Councillors.

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Election	Councillors
2007		Bill Clark (Ind.)		Allan Henderson (Ind.)		Eddie Huner (Ind.)
2012						Eddie Huner (Ind.)
May 2014	Ben Thompson (Ind.)
2017			Billy MacLachlan (SNP)
Apr 2018			Denis Rixson (Liberal Democrat)
Apr 2018	Vacant
2022	John Colin Grafton (Liberal Democrat)		Denis Rixson (Liberal Democrat)		Andrew Baldrey (Greens)		Liz Saggers (Conservative)
2025 by-	John Colin Grafton (Liberal Democrat)			Sammy Cameron (Ind.)			Liz Saggers (Conservative)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Independent	Sammy Cameron	36.0	867	871	873	888	914	972	1,139	1,607
	Independent	Allan Henderson	30.0	723	723	725	728	752	806	967
	Liberal Democrats	Isla Campbell	16.8	404	412	423	427	444	492
	SNP	Aaron Taylor	8.6	207	208	212	216	219
	Reform	Ryan Forbes	4.8	116	117	118	119
	Independent	Matthew Prosser	1.2	30	30	30
	Labour	Michael Perera	1.0	25	27
	Conservative	Donald Mackenzie	0.7	18
Electorate: 7,290 Valid: 2,408 Spoilt: 18 Quota: 1,196 Turnout: 33.0%

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Green	Andrew Baldrey	Unopposed
	Liberal Democrats	John Colin Grafton	Unopposed
	Conservative	Liz Saggers	Unopposed
Registered electors

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	Liberal Democrats	Denis Rixson	31.1%	658	671	706	791	968
	SNP	Alex MacInnes	27.2%	574	591	615	617	737
	Independent	Colin 'Woody' Wood	21.5%	454	471	539	580
	Conservative	Ian Smith	8.7%	183	188	200
	Independent	Catherine MacKinnon	6.9%	146	176
	Independent	Ronald Joseph Campbell	4.6	98
Electorate: 7,088 Quota: 1,057 Turnout: 2131 (30.1%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	Independent	Allan Henderson (incumbent)	28.3%	917
	Independent	Ben Thompson (incumbent)	23.7%	767	809.4	826.4
	SNP	Billy MacLachlan††††	23.9%	778	793.4	796.6	800.7	838.9
	Liberal Democrats	Denis Rixson	9.4%	304	324.7	328.04	331.03	402.6
	Conservative	Elizabeth Saggers	8.2%	265	271.4	275.5	276.9	290.6
	Labour	Alan Carstairs	5.6%	181	187.4	189.4	191.5
	Independent	Liam Simmonds	0.93%	30	34.04
Electorate: TBC Valid: 3,242 Spoilt: 52 Quota: 811 Turnout: 3,294 (46.6%)

Caol and Mallaig (ward)

Election results

2025 by-election

2022 election

2018 by-election

2017 election

2014 by-election

2012 election

2007 election

References

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	Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
Independent	Bill Clark	975	24.8	1	2
Independent	Allan Henderson	881	22.4	2	7
Independent	Eddie Hunter	550	14.0	3	10
Labour	Mairi MacLean	473	12.0
SNP	David Ingham	389	9.9
Independent	Sandra Casey	188	4.8
Conservative	Chris Carver	156	4.0
Independent	George MacLeod	151	3.8
Independent	Alistair MacGregor	100	2.5
Independent	Scott Waugh	64	1.6

Caol and Mallaig By-election (1 May 2014) - 1 Seat^[7]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	Independent	Ben Thompson	38.98	932	950	1,009	1,176
	SNP	William MacDonald	30.36	726	739	756	881
	Independent	Sandy Watson	22.46	537	541	551
	UKIP	Liam Simmonds	5.56	133	139
	Scottish Christian	Susan Wallace	2.84	68
Valid: 2,391 Spoilt: 23 Quota: 1,196 Turnout: 2,414 (34.43%)

Caol and Mallaig - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Independent	Allan Henderson (incumbent)	32.64%	905
	Independent	Bill Clark†† (incumbent)	25.59%	710
	Independent	Eddie Hunter (incumbent)†††††††	18.24%	506	627.7	636.1	648.9	676.2	691.9	731.2
	SNP	Niall Rownatree	14.82%	411	436.9	438.6	448.1	459.3	474	492.4
	Independent	George Kerr	2.56%	71	83.1	84.4	88.7	95.2	106.1
	Conservative	Elizabeth Saggers	2.38%	66	73.7	74.1	77.4	80.6
	Independent	Sally Semple	2.16%	60	66.9	67.5	71.2
	Scottish Christian	Susan Wallace	1.62%	45	50	50
Electorate: 6,752 Valid: 2,774 Spoilt: 44 Quota: 694 Turnout: 2,818 (41.74%)