2022 Shetland Islands Council election

2022 Shetland Islands Council election

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22 of 23 seats to Shetland Islands Council 12 seats needed for a majority
Registered	13,325[1]
Turnout	47.2% (1.9%)
First party Second party   Leader Steven Coutts Debra Nicolson & Martin Randall Party Independent Scottish Green Leader's seat Shetland West Contested Shetland West & Shetland Central Last election 22 seats, 97.8% Did not contest Seats before 21 0 Seats won 19 1 Seat change 2 1 Popular vote 5,542 442 Percentage 88.2% 7.0% Swing 9.6pp 7.0pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Robbie McGregor Tom Morton Party SNP Labour Leader's seat Shetland South Shetland North Last election 1 seat, 0.0% Did not contest Seats before 1 0 Seats won 1 1 Seat change 0 1 Popular vote 276 0 Percentage 4.4% 0.0% Swing 4.4pp New
Results by wards by partisanship. Results by wards, showing whether the incumbent candidate was re-elected, defeated, or retired.
Council Leader before election Steven Coutts Independent Council Leader after election Emma Macdonald Independent

Elections to the Shetland Islands Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the other Scottish local government elections. Seven wards will be contested, each ward electing two to four Councillors using the single transferable vote system form of proportional representation, with 23 Councillors elected.

The elections will be the first held since the passage of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 which allowed wards in Scottish councils containing islands to be reduced to single and dual-member wards. As a result, the Shetland West ward was reduced from three members to two.^[2]

The Scottish Greens contested a Shetland Islands Council election for the first time, standing three candidates and electing one councillor in Shetland South.^[3] Scottish Labour elected its first councillor to the Shetland Islands Council since 1994.