Polling takes place tomorrow in the Landward Caithness by-election

Tomorrow (Thursday 2 May) voting begins in the Landward Caithness By-election with polling stations opening their doors at 7am and remaining open for voters until 10pm.

The electorate for the Ward is 8,546. Any of the 1,428 people who have applied for a postal vote who may not yet have posted their ballot paper are reminded that they can hand it in to any of the polling stations up until 10 pm tomorrow.

The 14 polling stations are:

• Castletown Drill Hall
• Reay Hall
• Ross Institute,  Halkirk
• Bower Community Hall
• Watten Hall
• Britannia Hall Dunnet
• Canisbay Hall
• Keiss Amenities Hall
• Reiss Hall
• Assembly Rooms, Wick
• Thrumster Hall
• Lybster Community Centre
• Dunbeath Village Hall
• Free Church Hall, Millbank Road, Thurso

The count will take place on Friday 3 May at Wick Assembly Rooms starting at 9.30 am.

The candidates are:

• David Baron, Scottish Labour Party
• Gillian Coghill
• Hanna Miedema, Scottish National Party (SNP)
• Barbara Anne Watson, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Candidate

The make up of The Highland Council currently is: Independent 34, SNP 21, Liberal Democrats 14, Labour 8, Independent Nationalist 2