Английская Википедия:2022 Orkney Islands Council election

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Elections to the Orkney Islands Council were held on 5 May 2022, the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election used the six wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 21 councillors being elected. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.

Ward boundaries differ slightly from previous elections, with minor changes being made to the two Kirkwall wards, as well as the boundary nearest Kirkwall in East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray.

At the previous election in 2017, independent councillors won the most seats and ran the council.

Background

Composition

There were no official changes to the political composition of the council in the preceding term. However, independent councillor John Ross Scott did announce he had joined the Greens in 2021, which did not change his affiliation on the council. One by-election was held and resulted in an independent hold.

	Party	2017 result	Composition at dissolution
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |	Independents	18	18
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |	Orkney Manifesto Group	2	2
style="background:Шаблон:Party color;" |	Greens	1	1

Retiring councillors

Ward	Party		Retiring councillor
Kirkwall West and Orphir	style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color"|	Orkney Manifesto Group	John Richards
West Mainland	style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color"|	Independent	Harvey Johnston
East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color"|	Independent	Norman Rae Craigie
	Andrew Drever
	style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color"|	Scottish Greens	Steve Sankey
North Isles	style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color"|	Independent	Graham Sinclair

Boundary changes

Following the passing of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018, a review of the boundaries was undertaken in North Ayrshire, Argyll and Bute, Highland, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. The Act allowed single- or two-member wards to be created to provide better representation of island communities. As a result, the boundaries of the existing wards were changed but the number of councillors remained the same. North Isles, Stromness and South Isles and West Mainland were unchanged. The boundaries in and around Kirkwall were amended to better reflect local ties. Kirkwall Airport and neighbouring communities were placed in Kirkwall wards instead of East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray while the boundary between Kirkwall East and Kirkwall West and Orphir was amended by the harbour to make a more identifiable boundary.

Election result

Ward summary

Шаблон:Election table |- class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left"|Ward ! %
!Cllrs
! %
!Cllrs
!rowspan=2|Total
Cllrs
|- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" | Ind !colspan=2 bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" | Green |- |align="left"|Kirkwall East |bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |71.9 |bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |3 |28.1 |1 |4 |- |align="left"|Kirkwall West and Orphir |bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |86.3 |bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |3 |13.7 |1 |4 |- |align="left"|Stromness and South Isles |bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |86.3 |bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |3 |13.7 |0 |3 |- |align="left"|West Mainland |bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |88.2 |bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |4 |11.8 |0 |4 |- |align="left"|East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray |bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |85.5 |bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |3 |14.5 |0 |3 |- |align="left"|North Isles |bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |100 |bgcolor="Шаблон:Party color" |3 |colspan="2" rowspan="1" Шаблон:N/a |3 |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" !align="left"| Total !85.4 !19 !14.6 !2 !21 |}