Local Government

Pre 1975

Until 1975, the country was split in to 33 council areas:

• Aberdeenshire
• Angus (Forfarshire until 1928)
• Argyll
• Ayrshire
• Banffshire
• Berwickshire
• Bute, County of
• Caithness
• Clackmannanshire
• Dumfriesshire
• Dunbartonshire
• East Lothian (Haddingtonshire until 1921)
• Fife
• Inverness-shire
• Kincardineshire
• Kinross-shire
• Kirkcudbrightshire
• Lanarkshire
• Midlothian (County of Edinburgh until 1921)
• Moray, County of (Elgin until 1890)
• Nairnshire
• Orkney
• Peeblesshire
• Perthshire
• Renfrewshire
• Ross and Cromarty (separate until 1890)
• Roxburghshire
• Selkirkshire
• Shetland (Zetland)
• Stirlingshire
• Sutherland
• West Lothian (Linlithgowshire until 1921)
• Wigtownshire

In 1975, the council areas were combined into nine mainland regions and three island authorities; in 1996 the country was reorganised again, this time in to 32 council areas.

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