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Scottish National Party in 2022
Polling day: 5 May 2022. 168 councils held elections.
Summary
- Contested in 28 of 168 councils; ran for 1,111 seats.
- Won 432 seats (38.9% of seats up) on 34.4% of the vote.
- Net change vs each council's last appearance in this dataset: 0 seats across 0 councils up, 0 councils down, 0 flat, 28 new to the window.
Where Scottish National Party led, as of 2022
Councils where Scottish National Party was the largest single party in the most recent composition snapshot at or before 2022. Greens ring councils gained at this election; reds ring those lost. Click any hex to drill in.
As of 2022
19 councils led
Grey hexes are councils where another party led, or where we don't have a snapshot for that year.
Where the seats came from
Per-council net seat change vs each council's prior appearance in our dataset (typically that council's previous all-out election or its last by-thirds slice). "Debut" rows are councils whose first cycle in our window is 2022 — usually the result of a boundary reorganisation or being a county outside our 2021 LEH coverage.
Seats gained (0 councils)
No councils where seat count rose vs prior cycle.
Seats lost (0 councils)
No councils where seat count fell vs prior cycle.
Debut councils (28)
| Council | Won | Vote share | Seat share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glasgow City | 37 | 35.5% | 43.5% |
| North Lanarkshire | 36 | 43.6% | 46.8% |
| Fife | 34 | 36.9% | 45.3% |
| South Lanarkshire | 27 | 36.9% | 42.2% |
| Highland | 22 | 30.1% | 31.0% |
| Renfrewshire | 21 | 41.7% | 48.8% |
| Aberdeenshire | 21 | 30.8% | 30.0% |
| Aberdeen City | 20 | 35.0% | 44.4% |
| City of Edinburgh | 19 | 25.9% | 30.2% |
| Perth and Kinross | 16 | 36.6% | 40.0% |
| Dundee City | 15 | 41.4% | 51.7% |
| West Lothian | 15 | 37.9% | 45.5% |
| East Ayrshire | 14 | 37.9% | 43.8% |
| Angus | 13 | 38.3% | 46.4% |
| Falkirk | 12 | 39.7% | 40.0% |
| Argyll and Bute | 12 | 31.0% | 33.3% |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 11 | 28.2% | 25.6% |
| West Dunbartonshire | 9 | 42.5% | 40.9% |
| Clackmannanshire | 9 | 39.4% | 50.0% |
| South Ayrshire | 9 | 33.0% | 32.1% |
| The Scottish Borders | 9 | 21.0% | 26.5% |
| Midlothian | 8 | 37.6% | 44.4% |
| Stirling | 8 | 33.3% | 34.8% |
| East Dunbartonshire | 8 | 30.4% | 36.4% |
| Inverclyde | 7 | 37.7% | 36.8% |
| Moray | 7 | 36.0% | 30.4% |
| East Lothian | 7 | 28.2% | 31.8% |
| East Renfrewshire | 6 | 28.6% | 33.3% |
Net-change comparisons are versus each council's most recent appearance in our dataset (2021–2026). For all-out councils that's the previous all-out cycle (typically four years prior); for by-thirds councils it's last year's slice. Cross-cycle ward boundary changes can produce small artefacts — see methodology.