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If your councillors are unlanded, why would you not grant them titles? It increases their opinion of you, making it easier to get things done. Also, councillors who have war declaration powers cannot join factions. So consider them for counties and duchies first.
Even if your councillors are landed, there are going to be situations where they object to you granting a title. If the council is split on the issue, look at the "nay" votes and figure out what you can do to change it to a "yay". Everyone is jockeying for power, so your councillors are looking for title grants that benefit them. As I mentioned before, if they are unlanded, consider them first. If they are landed, consider granting the title to a non-inheriting member of their dynasty. That will usually change the vote. If the duchy is de jure to to territory the councillor controls, consider giving it to them. If the councillor is just discontent and hates you, consider replacing them with someone more agreeable even if that character is a couple points lower in the desired skill.
If you are dealing with a regency, you might be stuck for a while. This is especially true in cases where a child inherits the throne and you have the two year period of discontent on succession.
a) if they are unlanded, they want a title
b) if they have a title, they will want another for themselves or for members of their dynasty
c) they will not usually want you giving titles to yur own dynsaty members
d) if they hate you, they won't agree to anything you want unless it benefits them
So in this situation, you've already made your uncle a count. My advice you would be to boot one of the unlanded councillors off the council and replace him with your uncle. Then try again to grant him the duchy. You've turned one "no" vote into a "yes", which may be enough to sway the vote in your favor. Yes, the council member you've fired will hate you but so what? He's unlanded - he can't do ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.
In hindsight, it would have been better to grant that extra county to one of your council members and then grant them the duchy. But since you already gave it to your uncle and you have no other titles to grant, it's not an option.
Personally, I think having unlanded council members is a bad idea after the council is empowered unless the unlanded character has absolute rockstar skills for Chancellor, Marshal, or Spymaster, or if the character is a Jew with decent stats. The latter will give you occasional tech bonuses.
Or, if the child only has a couple years before reaching adulthood and you are only one duchy or one or two holdings over your limit, you may just want to sit on them and take the opinion penalty until he comes of age and you can do what you want. Counter the opinion malus with annual feasting, gifts, and generally not starting wars or doing things to piss your vassals off until age 16.