Election 97

Orkney and Shetland

Current MP Jim Wallace
Conservative 97 2,527
Labour 97 3,775
LibDem 97 10,743
Nationalist 97 2,624
Other 97 176
Elected party
Orkney and Shetland

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Orkney and Shetland
Conservative 92 4,542
Labour 92 4,093
LibDem 92 9,575
Nationalist 92 2,301
Other 92 115
Elected party LibDem

The northern isles of Orkney and Shetland have been held by the Liberals, and then the Liberal Democrats, since 1950 - their longest tenure in Great Britain. The low-lying agricultural islands of Orkney and the oil-rich, wild and wind-swept Shetlands have a scattered, freethinking electorate, which is as distrustful of Edinburgh as it is of London. The Liberal Democrat MP, William Wallace, should be safe.


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