Shetland Islands Council Election May 1986

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Contents 1 Results 1.1 Aithsting And Sandsting 1.2 Bressay 1.3 Burra And Trondra 1.4 Delting North 1.5 Delting South 1.6 Dunrossness North 1.7 Dunrossness South 1.8 Gulberwick, Quarff And Cunningsburgh 1.9 Lerwick Breiwick 1.10 Lerwick Central 1.11 Lerwick Clickimin 1.12 Lerwick Harbour 1.13 Lerwick North 1.14 Lerwick Sound 1.15 Lerwick Twageos 1.16 Nesting And Lunnasting 1.17 Northmavine 1.18 Sandness And Walls 1.19 Sandwick 1.20 Scalloway 1.21 Unst 1.22 Whalsay And Skerries 1.23 Whiteness, Weisdale And Tingwall 1.24 Yell North And Fetlar 1.25 Yell South 2 See Also

The 1986 Shetland Islands Council Election occurred on Tuesday 4 May.

Results

Aithsting And Sandsting

Electorate:
Turnout: 412 (68%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Florence Grains	Independent	211
Harold Leask	Independent	201

Bressay

Electorate:
Turnout: 195 (76%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Jim Irvine	Independent	135
Roy Whitehead	Independent Liberal	60

Burra And Trondra

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
William A. Cumming	Shetland Movement	Unopposed

Delting North

Electorate:
Turnout: 469 (49%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Andrea Manson	Independent	319
Fred Amphlett	Labour	150

Delting South

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
James Albert Hunter	Independent	Unopposed

Dunrossness North

Electorate:
Turnout: 339 (62%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
William Tait	Independent	288
Annette Mitchell	Independent	51

Dunrossness South

Electorate:
Turnout: 250 (61%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Magnus Flaws	Independent	195
Raymond R. Bentley	Independent	55

Gulberwick, Quarff And Cunningsburgh

Electorate:
Turnout: 434 (63%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Joan McLeod	Independent	240
David Nicolson	Independent	194

Lerwick Breiwick

Electorate:
Turnout: 335 (49%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Cecil B. Eunson	Independent	203
Dorothy Stables	Independent	107
Robert Tait	Independent	25

Lerwick Central

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
William A. Smith	Labour	Unopposed

Lerwick Clickimin

Electorate:
Turnout: 291 (39%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Thomas M. Y. Manson	Shetland Movement	216
Ian Byrne	Independent	75

Lerwick Harbour

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Edward Thomason	Shetland Movement	Unopposed

Lerwick North

Electorate:
Turnout: 587 (59%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Leonard G. Groat	Labour	328
Michael Thomson	Independent	259

Lerwick Sound

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
John J. Graham	Shetland Movement	Unopposed

Lerwick Twageos

Electorate:
Turnout: 398 (57%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
James J. Paton	Labour	281
Alexander J. Cluness	Shetland Movement	117

Nesting And Lunnasting

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Peter B. A. Hunter	Independent	Unopposed

Northmavine

Electorate:
Turnout: 311

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Christopher Dowle	Labour	238
William J. Beattie	Independent	74

Sandness And Walls

Electorate:
Turnout: 421 (73%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
James Nicolson	Independent	179
Gordon Walterson	Shetland Movement	163
Chris Young	Independent	79

Sandwick

Electorate:
Turnout: 349 (55%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Malcolm S. Bray	Shetland Movement	165
Peter R. Watts	Independent	124
Graham Jamieson	Independent	60

Scalloway

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Votes	Elected?
William A. Anderson	Unopposed

Unst

Electorate:
Turnout: 437 (61%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Liz Nicolson	Independent	186
Tom Ellis	Shetland Movement	158
John W. Ritch	Independent	48
Alan Fraser	Independent	45

Whalsay And Skerries

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Henry A. Stewart	Independent	Unopposed

Whiteness, Weisdale And Tingwall

Electorate:
Turnout: 447 (58%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Alex Arthur	Independent	194
Cecil Eunson	Independent	172
Charles Johnson	Independent	81

Yell North And Fetlar

Electorate:
Turnout: N/A

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
David J. Johnson	Independent	Unopposed

Yell South

Electorate:
Turnout: 347 (58%)

Candidate	Party	Votes	Elected?
Robert Stuart Gray	Independent	152
Robert Johnson	Independent	114
Daniel Spence	Independent	81

See Also

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