|
|
|
Orkney and Shetland
|
|
gain
from LibDem
|
|
Jim Wallace
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
2,527 (12.2%)
|
|
3,775 (18.3%)
|
|
10,743 (52.0%)
|
|
2,624 (12.7%)
|
|
996 ( 4.8%)
|
|
|
|
32,291
|
|
20,665 (64.0%)
|
|
Jim Wallace
|
|
Orkney and Shetland
|
|
5,033 (24.4%)
|
|
4,542 (22.0%)
|
|
4,093 (19.8%)
|
|
9,575 (46.4%)
|
|
2,301 (11.2%)
|
|
115 ( 0.6%)
|
|
|
LibDem
|
|
31,837
|
|
20,626 (64.8%)
|
|
|
-9.8%
|
|
-1.6%
|
|
+5.6%
|
|
+1.5%
|
|
+4.3%
|
|
+1.4%
|
|
-0.8%
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,767
|
9.58
|
9.03
|
106
|
|
|
966
|
5.24
|
11.17
|
47
|
|
|
2,802
|
15.20
|
11.25
|
135
|
|
|
1,358
|
7.37
|
14.70
|
50
|
|
|
389
|
2.11
|
10.45
|
20
|
|
|
7,429
|
40.29
|
2.81
|
1432
|
|
|
481
|
2.61
|
8.01
|
33
|
|
|
2,405
|
13.04
|
15.25
|
86
|
|
|
645
|
3.50
|
7.13
|
49
|
|
|
195
|
1.06
|
10.17
|
10
|
|
|
