1978 Shetland Islands Council election information
1978 Shetland Islands Council election
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May 2, 1978 (1978-05-02)
1982 →
All 25 seats to Shetland Islands Council 13 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Leader
A.I. Tulloch
Party
Independent
Labour
Leader's seat
Aithsting and Sandsting
Last election
18
4
Seats won
21
4
Seat change
3
0
Popular vote
4,039
941
Percentage
81.1%
18.9%
Swing
8.7%
8.7%
Council Convener before election
A.I. Tulloch
Independent
Council Convener after election
A.I. Tulloch
Independent
Results by electoral district.
Elections to the Shetland Islands Council were held on 2 May 1978 as part of Scottish regional elections, with 11 seats uncontested. The election saw 14 new councillors enter the Shetland Islands Council, an unusually large number, in part attributable to the charged political context surrounding the devolution debate of the late 1970s.[1] Several of these incomers consisted of members of the pro-autonomy Shetland Group, later to become the Shetland Movement, and local Scottish National Party branch, registered as independents.[2]
^Manson, T.M.Y. (1978). Grønneberg, Roy (ed.). Island Futures: Scottish Devolution and Shetland's Constitutional Alternatives. Sandwick. p. 17.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Grønneberg, Roy (1978). Island Futures: Scottish Devolution and Shetland's Constitutional Alternatives. Sandwick. p. 68.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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