It is based at Woodhill House, which is outside its own territory in the neighbouring Aberdeen City council area.

(Scotland) Act 1994, which abolished the regions and districts which had been created in 1975, replacing them with single-tier council areas.

Aberdeenshire covered the area of the abolished Banff and Buchan, Gordon and Kincardine and Deeside districts, all of which had been part of the Grampian region.

[13] The two Conservative councillors who defected to Reform UK in October 2024 became the party's first representatives in Scotland.

[15] Since 2007 elections have been held every five years under the single transferable vote system, introduced by the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004.