| Chris Ballance | |
| Office: | Member of the Highland Council |
| Constituency: | Aird and Loch Ness |
| Term Start: | 5 May 2022 |
| Constituency Mp1: | South of Scotland |
| Parliament1: | Scottish |
| Term Start1: | 1 May 2003 |
| Term End1: | 2 April 2007 |
| Birth Date: | 7 July 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Worcester, England, UK |
| Party: | Scottish Greens |
Chris Ballance (born on 7 July 1952) is a Scottish playwright and politician. He is a member of the Scottish Green Party and has been a councillor for the Aird and Loch Ness wards in the Highland Council since 2022. He was also a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the South of Scotland region from 2003 to 2007.
Born in Worcester, England, he owned and managed a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, won a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1990,[1] [2] and wrote sketches for Radio Scotland.
He was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2003. He held a seat on the Parliament's Enterprise and Culture Committee and was the Green's Parliamentary business manager and speaker on nuclear issues, culture, and peace.[3] He stood again in the 2007 election but was not re-elected.
In August 2007 he was appointed to the Scottish Broadcasting Commission established by the Scottish Executive.[4]
Ballance stood as a Green candidate in the Aird and Loch Ness ward for the 2017 Highland Council election.[5] He stood again in 2022 and was elected as a councillor.[6]
He is a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers).