Leith is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the

City of Edinburgh Council The City of Edinburgh Council is the local government authority for the city of Edinburgh, capital of Scotland. With a population of in mid-2019, it is the second most populous local authority area in Scotland. In its current form, the counci ...

. Established in 2007 along with the other wards, it currently elects three councillors. Its territory is located north-east of the city centre bounded by the coast on the

Firth of Forth The Firth of Forth () is the estuary, or firth, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth. It meets the North Sea with Fife on the north coast and Lothian on the south. Name ''Firth'' is a cognate of ''fjord'', a Norse word meani ...

, pertaining to the heart of the port and former independent

burgh A burgh is an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland and Northern England, usually a city, town, or toun in Scots. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Bur ...

Leith Leith (; gd, Lìte) is a port area in the north of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, founded at the mouth of the Water of Leith. In 2021, it was ranked by ''Time Out'' as one of the top five neighbourhoods to live in the world. The earliest ...

(outer parts of which fall into other wards). In 2019, the ward had a population of 24,207.

Councillors

Election Results

2022 Election

2022 City of Edinburgh Council election The 2022 election to the City of Edinburgh Council took place on Thursday 5 May 2022, on the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. The election will use the same 17 wards used in 2017; each ward elects three or four councillo ...

2017 Election

2017 City of Edinburgh Council election

2012 Election

2012 City of Edinburgh Council election Elections to the City of Edinburgh Council were held on 3 May 2012, the same day as the 2012 Scottish local elections. The election was the second using 17 new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward el ...

2007 Election

2007 City of Edinburgh Council election

References

External links

Listed Buildings in Leith Ward, City of Edinburgh
at ''British Listed Buildings'' {{Wards of Edinburgh Wards of Edinburgh Leith