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22 of 23 seats to Shetland Islands Council 12 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 13,325[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 47.2% (1.9%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 were contested, each ward electing two to four Councillors using the single transferable vote system form of proportional representation, with 23 Councillors elected.
The elections were 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.