Community Councils

Community Council Elections 2025

When nominations closed in February 2025, 39 community councils received sufficient valid nominations to establish.

Community Council Elections 2025 results

Local Interest Group results

Insufficient nominations were received to establish eight community councils:

  • Craigmillar
  • Davidson’s Mains and Silverknowes
  • Firrhill
  • Hutchison / Chesser
  • Muirhouse / Salvesen
  • Old Town
  • Portobello
  • West Pilton / West Granton

A second call for nominations will be issued for the eight community councils that did not achieve sufficient nominations to establish. Nominations will open on 27 March 2025 and will close at 4pm on 17 April 2025.

This webpage will be updated when more information is available.

Contact your local community council

If you would like to find out which community council is local to you and contact the currrent members for more information about what they do, you can get details on either

You can also fiind out more about the important role commmnity councils play on the Scottish community council website. The website has lots of resources as well as case studies and videos on the work of community councils.

Community Councils logo with photos of people active in their community

Community councils working for their communities

A taste of what community councils can achieve