Saltcoats and Stevenston is one of the nine wards used to elect members of North Ayrshire Council.
Re-established in 2022, the ward elects five councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 21,925 people.
The ward was initially created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections.
As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so Saltcoats and Stevenston was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards.
The 2019 Reviews of Electoral Arrangements proposed that Saltcoats and Stevenston be re-instated covering a slightly larger area than the original and electing five members instead of four.