Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Scottish Gaelic: Cill Mhearnaig agus Lughdan) was one of nineteen local government districts in the Strathclyde region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996.
(Scotland) Act 1994, which replaced the regions and districts with unitary council areas.
The former Kilmarnock Town Hall on King Street was demolished around the same time the new district council was created.
[5] The council instead based itself at two pre-existing buildings on either side of John Dickie Street, calling them the Civic Centre.
[6] Opposite it on the north side of John Dickie Street the council also took over the former headquarters of the Kilmarnock Co-operative Society, which had been built in 1880.