John Armour has been elected as a councillor for the South Kintyre ward of Argyll and Bute Council following a by-election on Thursday 11th December.

Mr Armour (Scottish National Party) was elected at stage 1 of the process, receiving 942 first preference votes.

There were  1,515 valid ballot papers out of a total 1,522.

The full results are as follows, with candidates in alphabetical order and the number of first preference votes they received:

John Armour (Scottish National Party) - 942, elected at stage 1

Charlotte Hanbury (Scottish Conservative and Unionist) - 203

Michael Kelly (Scottish Labour Party)  156

Joyce Oxborrow (Scottish Liberal Democrats) - 214