Highlands and Islands
About these elections
Voters will head to the polls on Thursday 7 May for the biggest set of elections since the 2024 general election. In Scotland and Wales, voters will elect representatives to their national parliaments, while in England around 5,000 local councillors and six mayors will be up for election. Candidate information may change until 10 April in England and Wales, as details are finalised.
Candidates
Voting due to take place on
Advance UK
- Matt Sheppard
- Steve Skerrett
Alliance to Liberate Scotland
- Brian Nugent
- Andrew MacDonald
- Kenny Mackenzie
- Laùra Hänsler
- Allan Duffy
- Flora Badger
Conservative
- Tim Eagle
- Jamie Halcro Johnston
- Helen Crawford
- Ruraidh Stewart
- George MacPherson
- Peter Wallace
- Donald MacKenzie
- Douglas Barnett
Independence for Scotland Party
- Fiona Nelson
Independent Green Voice
- Nicola Siddall
Labour
- Isla McCay
- Donald MacKinnon
- Eva Kestner
- John Erskine
- Mike Macleod
- Callum George
- Shaun Fraser
- David Blair
Liberal Democrats
- Morven-May MacCallum
- Alan Reid
- Declan Gallacher
- Angela Maclean
- Denis Rixson
- Guy Grieve
- Fiona Bennett
Reform UK
- Vic Currie
- Max Bannerman
- Amanda Hampsey
- Fred Campbell
- Malcom McTaggart
- Jon Whitton
- John Coupland
Scottish Christian Party
- Donald Boyd
Scottish Family Party
- Kenny Stone
- Allan MacEachen
- Rachel Gibson
- Eva Morrice
- Harriet Woolmore
Scottish Green
- Arianne Burgess
- Kristopher Leask
- Kate Willis
- Draeyk van der Horn
- Alex Armitage
- Anne Thomas
- Julie Christie
Scottish Libertarian Party
- Nathan Lumb
Scottish National Party
- Maree Todd
- Robert Leslie
- Emma Roddick
- Hannah Goodlad
- Eilidh Munro
- Jérémie Fernandes
Scottish Rural Party
- Alasdair Fletcher
- Ruaridh Ormiston
Scottish Socialist Party
- Willie Hamilton
- Brenda Nicholson
Workers Party of Britain
- Syed Hussain
Independent, Duncan MacPherson
Independent, Mick Rice