List of regional, district, islands and unitary councils
Sources: Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.65) Schedule 1; Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39)
Regional Councils, 1974-1996
Borders Region
Central Region
Dumfries & Galloway Region
Fife Region
Grampian Region
Highland Region
Lothian Region
Strathclyde Region
Tayside Region
District Councils, 1974-1996
Where names were changed, the original names are shown in brackets.
| City of Aberdeen
Angus Annandale and Eskdale Argyll and Bute (Argyll) Badenoch and Strathspey Banff and Buchan Bearsden and Milngavie Berwickshire Caithness Clackmannan Clydebank Clydesdale (Lanark) Cumbernauld and Kilsyth (Cumbernauld) Cumnock and Doon Valley Cunninghame Dumbarton City of Dundee Dunfermline
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East Kilbride
East Lothian Eastwood City of Edinburgh Ettrick and Lauderdale Falkirk City of Glasgow Gordon Hamilton Inverclyde Inverness Kilmarnock and Loudon Kincardine and Deeside Kirkcaldy Kyle and Carrick Lochaber Midlothian
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Monklands
Moray Motherwell Nairn Nithsdale North-east Fife Perth & Kinross Renfrew Ross and Cromarty Roxburgh Skye and Lochalsh Stirling Stewartry Strathkelvin (Bishopbriggs and Kirkintilloch) Sutherland Tweeddale West Lothian Wigtown (Merrick) |
Islands Councils, 1974-present
Orkney Islands
Shetland Islands
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (previously Western Isles)
Councils, 1996-present (see also Islands Councils shown above)
Where names were changed, the original names are shown in brackets.
| City of Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll and Bute Clackmannan City of Dundee Dumfries and Galloway East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire
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City of Edinburgh
Falkirk Fife City of Glasgow Highland Inverclyde Midlothian Moray North Lanarkshire North Ayrshire
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Perth & Kinross (Perthshire and Kinross)
Renfrewshire Scottish Borders (The Borders) South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling West Dunbartonshire (Dumbarton and Clydebank) West Lothian
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