Badenoch and Strathspey

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Badenoch and Strathspey

Badenoch and Strathspey is a local government ward of the Highland

Highland (council area)

The Highland Council areas of Scotland area is a local government area in the Scottish Highlands and the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom as a whole....
council area and a ward management area of the Highland Council in Scotland

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Badenoch and Strathspey as a local government district 1975 to 1996

Badenoch and Strathspey is a local government ward of the Highland

Highland (council area)

Scotland

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. Historically it was one of eight districts of the two-tier Highland region

Regions and districts of Scotland

The local government areas of Scotland were redefined by the Local Government Act 1973 and redefined again by the Local Government etc Act 1994....
, 1975 to 1996, and one of eight management areas of the Highland Council, 1996 to 2007.

The district was created under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

The Local Government Act 1973 is an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that reformed local government of Scotland in Scotland, on May 16, 1975....
as a one of the eight districts of the Highland region. The same legislation abolished counties

Counties of Scotland

The counties of Scotland were the principal subdivisions of Scotland of Scotland until 1975. Scotland's current Lieutenancy areas of Scotland and registration counties are largely based on them....
and burgh

Burgh

A Burgh is an Wiktionary:Autonomy corporate entity in Scotland, usually a town. This type of administrative division has existed since the 12th century, when David I of Scotland created the first Royal burghs....
s as local government areas, and the Badenoch and Strathspey district was formed by combining the areas of the burgh of Kingussie

Kingussie

Kingussie is a small town and is head of Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland , Scotland, adjacent to the A9 road , although the old route of the A9 served as the town's main street....
and district of Badenoch

Badenoch

Badenoch is a traditional district which today forms part of Badenoch and Strathspey, an area of Highland Council, in Scotland, bounded on the north by the Monadhliath Mountains, on the east by the Cairngorm Mountains and Braemar, on the south by Atholl and the Grampian Mountains , and on the west by Lochaber....
from the county of Inverness with the district of Cromdale

Cromdale

Cromdale is one of the ancient parishes which formed the combined ecclesiastical parish of "Cromdale, Inverallan and Advie" in Morayshire in Scotland....
from the county of Moray

County of Moray

Moray is one of the registration counties of Scotland, bordering Nairnshire to the west, Inverness-shire to the south, and Banffshire to the east....
. The traditional area of Strathspey

Strathspey, Scotland

Strathspey is the area around the strath of the River Spey, Scotland, in both the Moray council area and the Badenoch and Strathspey committee area of Highland ....
was thus divided between the Highland region and the Grampian

Grampian

Grampian was a Local government of Scotland Regions and districts of Scotland of Scotland from 1975 to 1996. It is now divided into the Council areas of Scotland of:...
region.

In 1996, under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994, the region became a unitary council area and the districts were abolished. The Highland Council, as the new unitary authority

Unitary authority

A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national government....
, then adopted the areas of the former districts as management areas and created area committees to represent them. The Badenoch and Strathspey management and committee areas consisted of five out of the 72 Highland Council wards. Each ward elected one councillor by the first past the post system of election. In 1999, however, ward boundaries were redrawn but management area boundaries were not. As a result area committees were named for and made decisions for areas which they did not exaclty represent. The new Badenoch and Strathspey committee area consisted of five out of the 80 new Highland Council wards.

New wards were created for elections this year, 2007, polling on 3 May, under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004

Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004

The Local Governance Act 2004 is an Act of Parliament of the Scottish Parliament which provided, inter alia, for the election of Councillors to the local government in Scotland in Scotland by the Single Transferable Vote system....
, and, as the wards became effective for representational purposes, the Highland Council's management and committee structures were re organised. The Badenoch and Strathspey management area and the Badenoch and Strathspey area committee were therefore abolished. The new wards are much larger, each electing three or four councillors by the single transferable vote

Single transferable vote

The Single transferable vote is a voting system of preferential voting designed to minimize wasted votes and provide proportional representation while ensuring that votes are explicitly expressed for individual candidates rather than for party lists....
system, and Badencoch and Strathspey is now a single ward electing four of the council's 80 members and a ward management area within the council's new Inverness, Nairn and Badenoch and Strathspey corporate management area. The new corporate area is one of three covering the council area. It consists of nine of the 22 wards of the council area, and the nine wards elect 34 of the council's members.

Badenoch and Strathspey

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