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Moray This article is about the Moray council area created in 1996, and the Moray district of the Grampian region , 1975 to 1996. For other uses of Moray
see Moray (disambiguation) Moray Murray
, spelled A Moireibh'' in
Gaelic ) is one of the 32
council areas of
Scotland . It lies in the north-east of the country, with coastline on the
Moray Firth , and borders the council areas of
Aberdeenshire and
Highland .
The Moray council area was created in 1996, under the
Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 , with the boundaries of the former Moray district of the two-tier
Grampian region .
Local government disticts had their own directly elected councils. Therefore they were said to be part of a two-tier system of local government. This was abolished by the 1994 legislation, in favour of
unitary council areas. The districts, and the regions, had been formed in 1975, under the
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 .
The Moray distict had been formed by combining the
local government county of Moray , except
Grantown-on-Spey and
Cromdale areas, with
Aberlour ,
Buckie ,
Cullen ,
Dufftown ,
Findochty ,
Keith and
Portknockie areas of the
county of Banff . The Grantown-on-Spey and Cromdale areas had been combined with
Kingussie and
Badenoch areas of the
county of Inverness to form the
Badenoch and Strathspey district of the
Highland region.
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Aberlour ,
Alves ,
Archiestown ,
Arradoul *
Bogmoor ,
Buckie ,
Burghead *
Craigellachie ,
Cullen ,
Cummingston *
Dallas ,
Deskford ,
Dufftown ,
Duffus ,
Dyke *
Elgin *
Findhorn ,
Findochty ,
Fochabers ,
Forres ,
Fogwatt *
Garmouth *
Hopeman *
Keith ,
Kingston ,
Kinloss *
Lhanbryde ,
Longmorn ,
Lossiemouth *
Mosstodloch *
Newmill *
Portgordon ,
Portknockie *
Rafford ,
Rothes ,
Rothiemay *
Spey Bay *
Tomintoul ,
Urquhart Moray Council Current political composition:
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Independent - 15 councillors
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Labour - 5 councillors
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Scottish National Party - 3 councillors
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Liberal Democrats - 1 councillor
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Conservative and Unionist - 1 councillor
Parliamentary constituencies In the
House of Commons of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom (
Westminster ), the council area is covered the
Moray (Westminster) constituency .
In the
Scottish Parliament (
Holyrood ), most of the council area is covered by the
Moray (Holyrood) constituency , which is in the
Highlands and Islands electoral region . The rest of the council area, a
Keith area, is covered by the
Gordon (Holyrood) constituency , which is in the
North East Scotland electoral region .
