East Dunbartonshire (Scots: Cooncil o Aest Dunbartonshire; Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Dhùn Breatainn an Ear, pronounced [ʃir̴əxɡ̊ ɣunˈb̊ɾʲɛhd̪̊ɪɲ ə ɲɛɾ]) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders onto the North-west of the City of Glasgow. It contains many of the suburbs of Glasgow as well as containing many of the city's commuter towns and villages. East Dunbartonshire also shares a border with West Dunbartonshire, Stirling, and Nor...
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East Dunbartonshire (Scots: Cooncil o Aest Dunbartonshire; Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Dhùn Breatainn an Ear, pronounced [ʃir̴əxɡ̊ ɣunˈb̊ɾʲɛhd̪̊ɪɲ ə ɲɛɾ]) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders onto the North-west of the City of Glasgow. It contains many of the suburbs of Glasgow as well as containing many of the city's commuter towns and villages. East Dunbartonshire also shares a border with West Dunbartonshire, Stirling, and North Lanarkshire. The council area covers part of the former county of Stirlingshire as well as parts of the former counties of Dunbartonshire and Lanarkshire.
The council area was formed in 1996, as a result of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, from part of the former Bearsden and Milngavie and Strathkelvin districts of the wider Strathclyde region.
In a 2007 Reader's Digest poll, East Dunbartonshire was voted the best place in the UK to raise a family.
As a result of the 2007 election, the Scottish Liberal Democrats lost control...
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