2007 Orkney Islands Council election

2007 Orkney Islands Council election
All 21 seats to Orkney Islands Council; 11 seats needed for a majority
Council Convener before election; Stephen Hagan; Independent	Council Convener after election ; Stephen Hagan; Independent

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.^[1] 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

Orkney Islands Local Election Result 2007
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Independent	21	±0	±0	±0	100.0	99.2	8,719	0.8
	Conservative	0	±0	±0	±0	0.0	0.8	68	New

Source:^[2]

Kirkwall East – 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	Janice Annal (Incumbent)	27.6	460
	Independent	Steven Heddle	21.6	359
	Independent	Bobby Leslie	16.8	280	319	326	356
	Independent	Mike Drever (Incumbent)	13.1	218	247	251	273	282	322
	Independent	Alastair MacLeod	9.0	150	168	173	192	198	244
	Independent	David Murdoch	6.5	108	118	122	131	133
	Independent	Alastair MacDonald	5.4	90	101	103

Kirkwall West and Orphir- 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	Independent	Jack Moodie	38.1	601
	Independent	David Tullock	16.5	260	321
	Independent	Allan Leslie (Incumbent)	15.3	241	304	305	334
	Independent	Roderick McLeod (Incumbent)	14.7	232	295	296	317
	Independent	Ian MacDonald (Incumbent)	11.3	178	214	214	232
	Independent	Alasdair Thom	4.1	64	88	89

Stromness and South Isles- 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	James Stockan (Incumbent)	41.6	539
	Independent	John Eccles	17.9	232	259	272	278	280	327
	Independent	Ian Johnstone (Incumbent)	16.6	215	305	312	331
	Independent	John Brown	9.5	123	153	158	167	169	215
	Independent	Fiona Matheson	8.7	113	145	149	157	159
	Independent	Maurice Davidson	3.1	40	51	51
	Independent	Terry Thomson	2.5	33	38

West Mainland – 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	Jimmy Moar (Incumbent)	30.7	545
	Independent	Alistair Gordon (Incumbent)	22.5	400
	Independent	Eoin Scott	13.6	242	292	303	321	337	369
	Independent	Rob Crichton	11.4	203	248	259	268	293	320
	Independent	Tom Flett	7.6	135	175	181	189	209	250
	Independent	Ian Flett	5.0	88	98	100	116	136
	Independent	Norman Shearer	4.7	83	95	98	104
	Conservative	Mark Jones	3.8	68	72	74
	Independent	Bob Gilmour	0.7	12	13	14

East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray – 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	Independent	Andrew Drever (Incumbent)	39.0	524
	Independent	Jim Foubister (Incumbent)	29.5	396
	Independent	Russ Madge	12.0	161	189	200	208	249
	Independent	George Linnit	10.8	145	186	199	206	246
	Independent	Mac Petrie	7.6	102	166	185	186
	Independent	Simon Treasure	1.0	14	17	18

North Isles – 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	Stephen Hagan (Incumbent)	40.9	463
	Independent	Stephen Clackson	13.6	154	164	181	188	209	211
	Independent	Sam Harcus	11.7	133	211	219	264	307
	Independent	Graham Sinclair	10.9	123	148	160	182	207	213
	Independent	Bob Trigg	9.3	105	111	116
	Independent	William Muir	6.4	72	102	130	145
	Independent	Leo Martini-Brown	3.6	41	42
	Independent	George Mowat-Brown	1.3	27	31
	Independent	Barbara Jeffreys	1.3	15	18