Moray

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Region: Scotland
Country: Scotland

§ This page provides an overview of a UK's local authority district, bringing together various information to help you better understand this district.

Moray is located in northeast Scotland, famous for its whisky distilleries along the Speyside region, sandy beaches, and RAF Lossiemouth. Elgin is its administrative centre, and the economy blends food production, defence, and tourism.

The local government for this district is: The Moray Council (Scotland Council Area).

For local government purposes, Scotland is divided into 32 ‘council areas’ (Scottish Gaelic: comhairlean), each administered by a single-tier authority known simply as a council.

This district page, Moray, is a sub-page of this region page: Scotland. It zooms in to local authorities and parliamentary constituencies, and provides a list of wards in this district. We have this list page for easy browsing of all UK local authority districts: List of Local Authority Districts.

Constituencies in Moray

A constituency is a specific geographical area that elects one Member of Parliament (MP) to represent them in the House of Commons. The United Kingdom is divided into 650 parliamentary constituencies, 57 of them are in Scotland. We have this list page for easy browsing of all UK parliamentary constituencies: List of Constituencies.

Wards in Moray

Moray is divided into 8 wards, listed below in alphabetical order.

  • Buckie
  • Elgin City North
  • Elgin City South
  • Fochabers Lhanbryde
  • Forres
  • Heldon and Laich
  • Keith and Cullen
  • Speyside Glenlivet

Districts in Scotland