Orkney and Shetland is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the...
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known as the Northern Isles Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency) The Orkney and Shetland Movement, a former electoral coalition This disambiguation...
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Shetland is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering the council area of Shetland. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament...
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Orkney is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering the council area of Orkney. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP)...
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council area), the Orkney Isles council area and the Shetland Isles council area, and most of two others, the Argyll and Bute council area and the Moray council...
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Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region...
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Scotland. Part of the Northern Isles along with Shetland, Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north of Caithness and has about 70 islands, of which 20 are inhabited...
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constituencies in the United Kingdom, as well as the most northerly constituency on the mainland (only the island constituency of Orkney and Shetland...
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Northern Isles (redirect from Orkney & Shetland)
constituencies that elect one Member of the Scottish Parliament each for Orkney and Shetland by the first past the post system. Orkney and Shetland also...
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h-Eileanan an Iar and Orkney and Shetland from being combined with any other constituency. When created, the area of the constituency was divided between...
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than 69,724 and no larger than 77,062. The exceptions to this rule are five 'protected' constituencies for island areas: Orkney and Shetland, Na h-Eileanan...
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council areas were covered (and still are covered) by the Orkney and Shetland Westminster constituency. In 1999, under the Scotland Act 1998, the expectation...
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Alistair Carmichael (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Orkney and Shetland)
Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland since 2001. He currently serves as the Liberal Democrat Home Affairs, Northern Ireland and Justice spokesperson...
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archipelago Orkney (Scottish Parliament constituency), the constituency for the Orkney Islands in the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh Orkney Islands Council...
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boundaries of all constituencies except Orkney and Shetland (which cover, respectively, the Orkney Islands council area and the Shetland Islands council...
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University constituencies and in Orkney and Shetland to take place about a week after other seats. Disregarding contests in the Universities and Orkney and Shetland...
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and larger only than the two Scottish island constituencies, Na h-Eileanan an Iar and Orkney and Shetland. The total population as of the 2011 census was...
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Twickenham is a constituency in Greater London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Munira Wilson of the Liberal Democrats...
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Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Orkney and Shetland)
Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland from 1983 to 2001 and a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Orkney from 1999 to 2007. He also served...
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Edinburgh South is a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament created in 1885. The constituency has been held by Scottish Labour since...
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exception of Orkney and Shetland which each return their own constituency MSP. Currently, the average Scottish Parliament constituency comprises 55,000...
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650 members of Parliament were elected to the country's House of Commons – one for each parliamentary constituency. The UK Parliament consists of the...
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2024 United Kingdom general election in Scotland (category General elections in Scotland to the Parliament of the United Kingdom)
increased majorities, and close to or over 50% of the vote. Orkney and Shetland remains the longest continuously held Liberal constituency, since 1950. This...
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of the Orkney Islands council area, all of the Shetland Islands council area and all of Na h-Eileanan Siar. The Argyll and Bute constituency was created...
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The Orkney and Shetland by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 18–19 November 1902. The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP)...
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The island groups of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles are all currently regions of Scotland. Their constitutional status has periodically been discussed...
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The 1873 Orkney and Shetland by-election was fought on 6–7 January 1873. The by-election was fought due to the Death of the incumbent MP of the Liberal...
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Jo Grimond (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Orkney and Shetland)
contest Orkney and Shetland, the most northerly constituency in the United Kingdom. He narrowly missed capturing the seat in 1945 but entered Parliament at...
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all of the Orkney Islands council area, all of the Shetland Islands council area and all of Na h-Eileanan Siar. The Moray constituency was created at...
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constituencies are Argyll and Bute, Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Moray, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Orkney, Shetland and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch. The region...
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