Orkney Islands Council election, 2007

Elections to Orkney Islands Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using six new wards created as a results of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward will elect three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation. The new wards replace 21 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

All the seats were won by independent candidates.

Election results

Orkney Islands Local Election Result 2007
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Independent	21	±0	±0	±0	100.0	99.2	8,719
	Conservative	0	±0	±0	±0	0.0	0.8	68

Ward results

Orkney Islands Council election, 2007: Kirkwall East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Janice Annal	460		1	1
	Independent	Steven Heddle	359		2	1
	Independent	Bobby Leslie	280		3	4
	Independent	Mike Drever	218		4	6
	Independent	Alistair MacLeod	150
	Independent	David Murdoch	108
	Independent	Alistair MacDonald	90

Orkney Islands Council election, 2007: Kirkwall East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Janice Annal	460		1	1
	Independent	Steven Heddle	359		2	1
	Independent	Bobby Leslie	280		3	4
	Independent	Mike Drever	218		4	6
	Independent	Alistair MacLeod	150
	Independent	David Murdoch	108
	Independent	Alistair MacDonald	90

Orkney Islands Council election, 2007: Kirkwall West and Orphir
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Jack Moodie	601		1	1
	Independent	David Tullock	260		2	2
	Independent	Allan Leslie	241		3	4
	Independent	Roderick McLeod	232		4	6
	Independent	Ian MacDonald	178
	Independent	Alasdair Thom	108

Orkney Islands Council election, 2007: Stromness and South Isles
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	James Stockan	539		1	1
	Independent	John Eccles	232		3	6
	Independent	Ian Johnstone	215		2	4
	Independent	John Brown	123
	Independent	Fiona Matheson	113
	Independent	Maurice Davidson	40
	Independent	Terry Thomson	33

Orkney Islands Council election, 2007: West Mainland
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Jimmy Moar	545		1	1
	Independent	Alistair Gordon	400		2	1
	Independent	Eoin Scott	242		3	7
	Independent	Rob Crichton	203		4	7
	Independent	Tom Flett	135
	Independent	Ian Flett	88
	Independent	Norman Shearer	83
	Conservative	Mark Jones	68
	Independent	Bob Gilmour	12

Orkney Islands Council election, 2007: East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Andrew Drever	524		1	1
	Independent	John Foubister	396		2	1
	Independent	Russ Madge	161		3	5
	Independent	Geoffrey Linnit	145
	Independent	Mac Petrie	102
	Independent	Simon Treasure	14

Orkney Islands Council election, 2007: North Isles
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Stephen Hagan	463		1	1
	Independent	Stephen Clackson	154
	Independent	Sam Harcus	133		2	7
	Independent	Graham Sinclair	123		4	8
	Independent	Bob Trigg	105
	Independent	William Muir	72
	Independent	Leo Martini-Brown	41
	Independent	George Mowat-Brown	27
	Independent	Barbara Jeffreys	15

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