An early doors resignation from an Independent opens the door for another Independent who only narrowly missed out. Rarely for Islands elections, there are more party candidates on the ballot than Independents – though only three candidates overall. […]
An early by-election to fill a seat left vacant in May is guaranteed to go to an Independent. […]
Shetland’s recent run of Independent-only councils was broken in 2017, but only due to an uncontested ward auto-electing an SNP candidate. This year is already looking more party political in terms of candidtes, but will that translate to seats? […]
Everyone may be focused on the Westminster General Election right now, but local democracy stops for nothing. For people desperate to foolishly attempt to read national runes from local by-elections, Shetland Islands Council’s Independent tendencies are going to leave you pretty disappointed. […]
Shetland is enjoying quite a spell in the political spotlight at the moment. Following the by-election for the Scottish Parliament seat we have two council by-elections coming up as well. The Lerwick South one was expected as a logical outcome […]
Something a little different for Ballot Box Scotland today – looking not at election results past or present, but instead the process that surrounds drawing boundaries for those elections. […]
Though we had the excitement of two by-elections yesterday, I’m going to cover the results of each separately – partly because I’m waiting for South Lanarkshire to make the full suite of documents available! So, let’s start with the big […]
In an unexpected turn of events, former Scottish Liberal Democrats leader Tavish Scott announced his resignation last month, prompting a by-election for the Shetland constituency. […]
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