Tomorrow, voters across the Falkirk Council area will elect 30 people to represent them for the next five years, overseeing vital services that include everything from bin collections and road repairs to education and social care.
At the last election, in 2017, the SNP were comfortably the biggest party with 12 councillors elected - rising to 13 after the Falkirk South by-election.
With Independent Robert Spears to support them they were able to form an administration. Without a majority, however, they were often frustrated as the opposition groups used their combined strength to block SNP proposals, even passing an alternative budget.
