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2007 Orkney Islands Council election

2007 Scottish local government election

Field	Value
election_name	2007 Orkney Islands Council election
country	Scotland
flag_image	2007 Flag of Orkney.svg
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	2003 Orkney Islands Council election
previous_year	2003
election_date
next_election	2012 Orkney Islands Council election
next_year	2012
seats_for_election	All 21 seats to Orkney Islands Council
majority_seats	11
leader1	Stephen Hagan
party1	Independent (politician)
last_election1	21 seats, 100%
leaders_seat1	North Isles
seats_before1	21
seats_needed1	-
seats1	21
seat_change1	0
percentage1	99.2%
popular_vote1	8,719
swing1	0.8pp
title	Council Convener
before_election	Stephen Hagan
before_party	Independent (politician)
posttitle	Council Convener after election
after_election	Stephen Hagan
after_party	Independent (politician)

Main article: 2007 Scottish local elections

Elections to Orkney Islands Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using six new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward elects three or four councillors using a single transferable vote system 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

Ward results

Source:

Kirkwall East

Kirkwall West and Orphir

Stromness and South Isles

West Mainland

East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray

North Isles

References

[https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2004/9/pdfs/asp_20040009_en.pdf Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004], ''[[legislation.gov.uk]]'', [[The National Archives (United Kingdom). The National Archives]], 2004 asp 9
"Local Elections Archive Project – 2007 – Orkney".

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