Orkney Manifesto Group

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Orkney Manifesto Group
Leader Rachael King
FoundedMarch 2013;11 years ago (2013-03)
Dissolved29 March 2022;2 years ago (2022-03-29)
HeadquartersSycamore
Main Street
Kirkwall
KW15 1BU
Orkney Islands Council
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Website
orkneycommunities.co.uk/omg

The Orkney Manifesto Group (OMG) was a minor political party in Orkney, Scotland. The group advocated for politicisation of Orkney Islands Council, believing that party-based representation would offer more robust democratic governance than the current council of elected independents. [1] The OMG started as an alliance of three independents who campaigned on a joint manifesto for the 2012 election, [2] before finally registering as a party in 2013. [3]

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The party won two seats at the 2017 Orkney Islands Council election. [4]

The party de-registered with the Electoral Commission on 29 March 2022, and as a result has fielded no candidates in the 2022 Orkney election. [3] Rachael King is the only OMG councillor to seek re-election, as an independent candidate.

Election results

West Mainland by-election

In its first electoral test as a registered party, Rachael King was elected in a by-election for the West Mainland ward following the death of the incumbent councillor Alistair Gordon (first elected as an Independent, he had helped set up the OMG). [5] Having won a majority of first preference votes, she was elected in the first round.

West Mainland by-election, 18 August 2015 [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Orkney Manifesto Group Rachael King 51.3
Independent Barbara Foulkes38.6
Scottish Green Fiona Grahame9.9
Turnout 1,15434
Orkney Manifesto Group gain from Independent Swing

Orkney Islands Council election

YearVotesFPV%Seats+/-
2017 89412.1%
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References

  1. "Orkney Manifesto Group". Orkney Communities. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  2. "Kirkwall councillor to stand down at end of OIC term". The Orcadian. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Orkney Manifesto Group Registration". The Electoral Commission . Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  4. "Going Local: Orkney - where politics, and life, are very different". The National.
  5. Tributes paid to Councillor Alistair Gordon
  6. "Manifesto Group candidate elected". The Orcadian. 19 August 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2019.