North Isles is one of the six electoral wards of Orkney Islands Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects three councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 2,272 people.
Local politics in Orkney is traditionally non-partisan and the ward has never elected a councillor affiliated to a political party.
Boundaries The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections. As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so North Isles was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained all of the former Papa Westray, Westray and Eday and Sanday, North Ronaldsay and Stronsay wards as well as part of the former Evie, Rendall, Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre and Shapinsay and Kirkwall Harbour wards. North Isles covers all of the islands north of Mainland including Westray, Sanday, Eday, Stronsay, Rousay, Shapinsay, North Ronaldsay, Papa Westray, Wyre, Gairsay and Papa Stronsay.
The ward's boundaries were unchanged following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections.
The ward's boundaries were also unchanged following the 2019 Reviews of Electoral Arrangements, an interim review of island areas as a result of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018.
Councillors ElectionCouncillors2007Stephen HaganSam HarcusGraham Sinclair2012Stephen Clackson2017Kevin Woodbridge2020by-electionHeather Woodbridge2022Mellissa Thomson
Election results 2022 election
2020 by-election
2017 election
2012 election
2007 election
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