Eilean a' Cheò (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

Eilean a' Cheò is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It includes the islands of Skye and Raasay. It elects four Councillors.

It is the only Highland Council ward with an official name in the Scottish Gaelic language. Eilean a' Cheò is a name for the Isle of Skye, meaning the Island of Mist.^[2]

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Election	Councillors
2007		Hamish Fraser (Ind.)		John Laing (Ind.)		Drew Millar (Liberal Democrats)	Ian Renwick (SNP)
2012	John Gordon (Ind.)	Hamish Fraser (Ind.)				Drew Millar (Liberal Democrats)	Ian Renwick (SNP)
2017		John Finlayson (Ind.)		Ronald McDonald (Ind.)	Calum MacLeod (SNP/ Independent/ Highland Matters)
2017				Ronald McDonald (Ind.)
Mar 2020				Calum Munro (Ind.)
2022			Drew Millar (SNP)	Calum Munro (Ind.)		Ruraidh Stewart (Conservative)
June 2025			Drew Millar (SNP)	Christine Gillies (Ind.)		Ruraidh Stewart (Conservative)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Independent	Christine Gillies	23.5	823	834	846	912	1,021	1,224	1,515	2,009
	Liberal Democrats	Fay Thomson	21.1	741	765	795	847	902	1,023	1,228
	Independent	Campbell Dickson	18.7	655	658	698	717	775	854
	SNP	Mártainn Mac A'bhàillidh	15.0	527	530	536	593	613
	Independent	Jonathan Macdonald	7.9	276	285	301	316
	Green	Katy Lawrence	6.8	239	241	243
	Reform UK	John Coupland	4.5	157	169
	Conservative	George Macpherson	2.5	86
Electorate: 8,767 Valid: 3,504 Spoilt: 19 Quota: 1,753 Turnout: 40.2%

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Independent	John Finlayson (incumbent)	32.1	1,450
	SNP	Drew Millar	22.6	1,019
	Independent	Calum Munro (incumbent)	12.9	583	792	813	838	928
	Conservative	Ruraidh Stewart	10.7	485	521	522	535	538	539	595	654	806
	Independent	Fay Thomson	5.7	258	339	348	372	409	416	464	632
	Independent	Donald MacDonald	5.3	240	319	329	342	369	376	429
	Alba	Hector MacLeod	3.7	166	185	208	211
	Liberal Democrats	Jack Clark	3.5	157	188	196	258	271	273
	Labour	Peter Ó Donnghaile	3.5	157	180	189
Electorate: 8,912 Valid: 4,515 Spoilt: 56 Quota: 904 Turnout: 51.3%

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	Independent	Calum Munro	28.5%	911	927	1,017	1,117	1,464
	SNP	Andrew Kiss	27.3%	874	885	889	1,019	1,135
	Liberal Democrats	Fay Thomson	21.8%	698	698	801	881
	Green	Dawn Kroonstuiver Campbell	11.2%	357	367	379
	Conservative	Ruraidh Stewart	9.8%	314	315
	No Label	Màrtainn Mac a’ Bhàillidh	1.8%	45
Electorate: 8,848 Valid: 3,199 Spoilt: 29 Quota: 1,600 Turnout: 3,228 (36.5%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Independent	John Finlayson	28.9%	1,449
	SNP	Calum MacLeod †††	12.5%	626	656.6	666.9	676.5	690.4	710.3	726.6	1,028.8
	Independent	Ronald MacDonald††††††††	14.3%	717	829.5	835.2	847.5	892.3	925.9	992.6	999.3	1,001.9
	Independent	John Gordon (incumbent)	9.06%	453	534.9	539.9	549.5	582.7	631.9	737.3	757.1	765.3	765.7	834.6	1,035.2
	Independent	Hamish Fraser (incumbent)	6.8%	339	395.9	408.5	425.1	442.8	515.6	545.6	554.8	559.1	559.2	632.03
	Conservative	Malcolm MacLeod	6.4%	319	331.4	335.4	359.2	371	383.9	394.5	395.8	396.3	396.4
	SNP	Ian Renwick (incumbent)	6.2%	310	317.4	320.4	323.4	334.8	351.7	363.5
	Independent	Campbell Dickson	4.3%	216	249.7	251.6	257.9	277.3	303.3
	Independent	Drew Millar (incumbent)	4.3%	213	241.1	243.4	250.4	265.8
	Independent	Moira Scoobie	3.3%	164	197.1	208	222.6
	Liberal Democrats	Ken MacLeod *	1.9%	97	106.6	131.2
	Labour	Peter O'Donnghaile	1.9%	98	104.5
Electorate: TBC Valid: 5,001 Spoilt: 80 Quota: 1,001 Turnout: 5,082 (59.1%)

Eilean a' Cheò (ward)

Election results

2025 by-election

2022 election

2020 by-election

2017 election

2012 election

2007 election

References

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	Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
Liberal Democrats	Drew Millar	960	21.2	1	1
Independent	Hamish Fraser	795	17.6	2	4
Independent	John Laing	734	16.2	3	6
SNP	Ian Renwick	669	14.8	4	8
Independent	John Murray	498	11.0
Labour	Vicki Samuels	351	7.8
Independent	Iain MacDonald	338	7.5
Conservative	John Hodgson	178	3.9