Editing 1997 Scottish devolution referendum (section)

====By council area====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! rowspan=2 | Council area
! colspan=2 | Votes
! colspan=2 | Proportion of votes
|-
! Agree
! Disagree
! Agree
! Disagree 
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Aberdeen City]]
| '''54,320'''
| 35,709
| '''60.3%'''
| 39.7%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Aberdeenshire]]
| '''50,295'''
| 45,929
| '''52.3%'''
| 47.7%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Angus, Scotland|Angus]]
| '''27,641'''
| 24,089
| '''53.4%'''
| 46.6%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Argyll and Bute]]
| '''25,746'''
| 19,429
| '''57.0%'''
| 43.0%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Clackmannanshire]]
| '''16,112'''
| 7,355
| '''68.7%'''
| 31.3%
|- style="background:#E6DCEF;"
| [[Dumfries and Galloway]]
| 35,737
| '''37,499'''
| 48.8%
| '''51.2%'''
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Dundee City (council area)|Dundee City]]
| '''42,304'''
| 22,280
| '''65.5%'''
| 34.5%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[East Ayrshire]]
| '''42,559'''
| 17,824
| '''70.5%'''
| 29.5%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[East Dunbartonshire]]
| '''34,576'''
| 23,914
| '''59.1%'''
| 40.9%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[East Lothian]]
| '''28,152'''
| 16,765
| '''62.7%'''
| 37.3%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[East Renfrewshire]]
| '''23,580'''
| 22,153
| '''51.6%'''
| 48.4%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[City of Edinburgh (council area)|City of Edinburgh]]
| '''133,843'''
| 82,188
| '''62.0%'''
| 38.0%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Falkirk (council area)|Falkirk]]
| '''48,064'''
| 21,403
| '''69.2%'''
| 30.8%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Fife]]
| '''108,021'''
| 58,987
| '''64.7%'''
| 35.3%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Glasgow City (council area)|Glasgow City]]
| '''182,589'''
| 60,842
| '''75.0%'''
| 25.0%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Highland (council area)|Highland]]
| '''61,359'''
| 37,525
| '''62.1%'''
| 37.9%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Inverclyde]]
| '''27,194'''
| 13,277
| '''67.2%'''
| 32.8%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Midlothian]]
| '''26,776'''
| 12,762
| '''67.7%'''
| 32.3%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Moray]]
| '''19,326'''
| 17,344
| '''52.7%'''
| 47.3%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[North Ayrshire]]
| '''43,990'''
| 22,991
| '''65.7%'''
| 34.3%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[North Lanarkshire]]
| '''107,288'''
| 41,372
| '''72.2%'''
| 27.8%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Perth and Kinross]]
| '''33,398'''
| 31,709
| '''51.3%'''
| 48.7%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Renfrewshire]]
| '''55,075'''
| 31,537
| '''63.6%'''
| 36.4%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Scottish Borders]]
| '''27,284'''
| 26,487
| '''50.7%'''
| 49.3%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[South Ayrshire]]
| '''33,679'''
| 26,217
| '''56.2%'''
| 43.8%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[South Lanarkshire]]
| '''99,587'''
| 47,708
| '''67.6%'''
| 32.4%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Stirling (council area)|Stirling]]
| '''25,044'''
| 17,487
| '''58.9%'''
| 41.1%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[West Dunbartonshire]]
| '''34,408'''
| 11,628
| '''74.7%'''
| 25.3%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[West Lothian]]
| '''47,990'''
| 23,354
| '''67.3%'''
| 32.7%
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)]]
| '''8,557'''
| 3,947
| '''68.4%'''
| 31.6%
|- style="background:#E6DCEF;"
| [[Orkney]]
| 3,917
| '''4,344'''
| 47.4%
| '''52.6%'''
|-style="background:#CFE2FC;"
| [[Shetland]]
| '''4,478'''
| 4,198
| '''51.6%'''
| 48.4%
|}

Votes in favour of tax-varying powers still commanded significant majority, when compared to establishing the Parliament per se. A majority voted 'I agree' in every local council, apart from in [[Dumfries & Galloway]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/devolution/scotland/live/dumfriesgall.shtml |title=Result – Dumfries and Galloway |work=[[BBC News]] |date=1997 |access-date=20 June 2018 |archive-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515235724/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/devolution/scotland/live/dumfriesgall.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Orkney]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/devolution/scotland/live/orkney.shtml |title=Result – Orkney Islands |work=[[BBC News]] |date=1997 |access-date=20 June 2018 |archive-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515235145/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/devolution/scotland/live/orkney.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>