A DOZEN community councils in Argyll and Bute – including Oban, Dunbeg, Seil and Lismore – have been unable to form after the election on April 26 because there were not enough candidates.
Nominations for new community councillors closed on March 22. Argyll and Bute papers revealed there were only two contested elections – one in Jura and one in Kilninver and Kilmelford.
Forty two community councils were formed by uncontested elections, including in Oban, Lorn and the Isles – Appin, Ardchattan, Avich and Kilchrenan, Coll, Connel, Glenorchy and Innishail, Iona, Kilmore and Kilbride, Luing, Mull, Taynuilt and Tiree – as well as in Kintyre and Mid Argyll, Colonsay, Craignish and Islay.