Argyll and Bute: Mid Argyll ward

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Before anyone asks for your vote: what the official record says about the ground around this area — housing sites, schools, protected areas, air quality — and who represents you now.

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Boundary: ONS Open Geography Portal (Open Government Licence). Map tiles: OpenStreetMap.

Who represents you now

Councillors for Mid Argyll, as recorded after the May 2026 elections:

Jan Brown, Scottish National Party (SNP)
Garret Corner, Conservative and Unionist
Dougie Philand, Independent / Other

This by-election fills a seat that has fallen vacant since then, so one of those listed may no longer hold it.

Across the whole of Argyll and Bute council (36 seats in 2026): Conservative 7, Labour 1, Liberal Democrat 4, Reform UK 2, SNP 13, Other 9. Run by: a coalition or arrangement of SNP, Liberal Democrats, independents, Labour and Greens.

Councillors and council make-up from Open Council Data (public domain). The council's own website lists current councillors and how to contact them.

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Argyll and Bute: Mid Argyll ward in numbers

Official open data about the area. It describes the place, not you, and it favours no candidate.

People claiming unemployment-related benefits

105 people in Mid Argyll ward, 2.3% of residents aged 16–64, against 3.2% across Scotland (August 2026).

Claimant count, Office for National Statistics via Nomis (Open Government Licence). It counts people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while required to seek work; it is not the same as the unemployment rate.

House prices in Argyll And Bute

Average price £189,366, up 3.1% on a year earlier (July 2026).

Flats and maisonettes: £118,925
Detached houses: £338,121

Source: HM Land Registry UK House Price Index for the local authority (Open Government Licence). A local-authority average; prices within it vary widely.

Recorded crime nearby, July 2026

0 street-level crimes recorded within about a mile of the area's centre.

Source: data.police.uk (Open Government Licence). Centroid of the ONS 2024 boundary. Statistics near this point describe the area, not any household. Recorded crime reflects reporting and policing as well as offending; see the ONS guidance in further reading.

Past elections in this ward

Every recorded council election here since 2006, most recent first. Elected candidates in bold. Past results describe the past; each election is a new contest.

2022 — Independent Berwick Hills Resident , Scottish National Party (SNP), Conservative and Unionist Party elected · turnout 51%

Douglas Trevor Philand	Independent Berwick Hills Resident	1,148
Jan Brown	Scottish National Party (SNP)	993
Garret Corner	Conservative and Unionist Party	371
Lesley Burt	Labour Party	157
Donnie MacMillan	Independent Berwick Hills Resident	149
Andy Cameron	Independent Berwick Hills Resident	140
David Barton	Liberal Democrats	107
Ross Alistair Weir	Independence for Scotland Party	78
Abisola Adepetun	Independent Berwick Hills Resident	54

2017 — Independent Berwick Hills Resident , Scottish National Party (SNP), Independent Berwick Hills Resident elected

Douglas Trevor Philand	Independent Berwick Hills Resident	948
Sandy Taylor	Scottish National Party (SNP)	911
Alec McNeilly	Conservative and Unionist Party	528
Donnie MacMillan	Independent Berwick Hills Resident	427
Jane McCurdie	Independent Berwick Hills Resident	190
Elaine Morrison	Green Party	171
Jane Kelly	Labour Party	132

2012 — Independent, Scottish National Party (SNP), Independent elected

Douglas Philand	Independent	1,111
Sandy Taylor	Scottish National Party (SNP)	712
Donnie Macmillan	Independent	409
Alison Hay	Liberal Democrats	312
Wendy Reynolds	Labour Party	174
Charlotte Hanbury	Conservative and Unionist Party	174

2007 — Liberal Democrats, Independent, Independent elected

Alison Hay	Liberal Democrats	813
Donnie MacMillan	Independent	699
Colin Stevenson	Scottish National Party (SNP)	625
Douglas Philand	Independent	582
Sandy Cameron	Independent	344
Charlotte Hanbury	Conservative and Unionist Party	305
Wendy Reynolds	Labour Party	225
Cameron Lewis	Independent	106

Source: DCLEAPIL v1.0 British local election results 2006–2024, by Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's Local Elections Archive Project and Democracy Club (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0). Where a ward's boundaries changed, earlier results were for a somewhat different area.

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