Politics of Edinburgh

(Scotland) Act 1994, with the boundaries of the post-1975 City of Edinburgh district of the Lothian region.

The Parliament of the United Kingdom (at the Palace of Westminster) legislates on matters such as taxation, foreign policy, defence, employment and trade.

For elections to the House of Commons of this parliament, the city area is divided among five United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies, with each constituency returning one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

[1] The current Lord Provost of Edinburgh is Robert Aldridge, who replaced Frank Ross in 2022.

[2] In Scotland, the Lord Provost fulfils many similar roles to that of a Mayor in some other countries.

Cllr Aldridge has been on the Council since 1984, previously leading the Liberal Democrat group, and was elected unanimously.

He was the first Lord Provost to welcome a new monarch (Charles III) to Edinburgh with the Ceremony of the Keys since 1952.

This empowered the societies as "a legal corporation with power to hold property, make its own by-laws and regulations".

(Scotland) Act 1994, with the boundaries of the City of Edinburgh district of the Lothian region.

As a result of the boundary review:[7][8] Current political composition: Edinburgh has been used in ten different constituency names since 1708, the date of the first election to the Parliament of Great Britain (which was merged into the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1801).

The difference between the number of Yes and No votes was largest in Edinburgh by comparison to any other council area in Scotland at 70,711.