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.
Official open data about the area. It describes the place, not you, and it favours no candidate.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits
200 people in Wick and East Caithness ward, 2.5% 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 Highland
Average price £221,136, up 6.1% on a year earlier (July 2026).
Flats and maisonettes: £124,443
Detached houses: £344,472
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.
What’s It To Me?
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— Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party (SNP), Conservative and Unionist Party, Independent Berwick Hills Resident elected · turnout 41%
Jan Mcewan
Liberal Democrats
1,245
Raymond Bremner
Scottish National Party (SNP)
1,059
Andrew Jarvie
Conservative and Unionist Party
632
A.I. Willie Mackay
Independent Berwick Hills Resident
534
Bill Fernie
Independent Berwick Hills Resident
438
Neil Macdonald
Labour Party
272
2021— Liberal Democrats elected · turnout 24%
Jill Tilt
Liberal Democrats
657
Bill Fernie
Independent Berwick Hills Resident
622
Michael Cameron
Scottish National Party (SNP)
593
Daniel Ross
Conservative and Unionist Party
523
Harry Christian
Libertarian Party
16
2017— Independent Berwick Hills Resident , Independent Berwick Hills Resident , Conservative and Unionist Party, Scottish National Party (SNP) elected
A.I. Willie Mackay
Independent Berwick Hills Resident
1,046
Nicola Sinclair
Independent Berwick Hills Resident
967
Andrew Sinclair
Conservative and Unionist Party
649
Raymond Bremner
Scottish National Party (SNP)
549
Neil Macdonald
Labour Party
404
Linda Malik
Independent Berwick Hills Resident
338
Bill Fernie
Independent Berwick Hills Resident
327
Catherine Patterson
Independent Berwick Hills Resident
224
Luke Graham
Liberal Democrats
172
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.
Who represents you now
Councillors for Wick and East Caithness, as recorded after the May 2026 elections:
Raymond Bremner, Scottish National Party (SNP)
Andrew Jarvie, Independent / Other
Willie MacKay, Independent / Other
Jan McEwan, Liberal Democrats
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 Highland council (74 seats in 2026): Conservative 6, Labour 2, Liberal Democrat 16, Green 3, SNP 19, Other 28. Run by: a coalition or arrangement of SNP and independents.
Councillors and council make-up from Open Council Data (public domain). The council's own website lists current councillors and how to contact them.