OIC election — full candidate list revealed

March 30, 2022 at 6:10 pm

Candidates for the OIC election have been declared.

Campaign season is now officially under way for the Orkney Islands Council election, after the full list of candidates was declared this Wednesday evening.

Voters across Orkney are set to head to the polls on May 5, to elect the 21 councillors who will represent them for the next five years.

Membership within the OIC chamber is broken up into six electoral wards. These wards, and their candidates are as follows:

East Mainland, Burray and South Ronaldsay (three seats)

James Moar (independent)
Eric Page (Scottish Greens)
Raymie Peace (independent)
Julie Rickards (independent)
Gillian Skuse (independent)

Kirkwall East (four seats)

David Dawson (independent)
Steven Heddle (independent)
Graham MacDonald (independent)
John Ross Scott (Scottish Greens)
Gwenda Shearer (independent)

Kirkwall West and Orphir (four seats)

Beverley Clubley (independent)
Sandy Cowie (independent)
Barbara Foulkes (independent)
Kristopher Leask (Scottish Greens)
Leslie Manson (independent)
Leslie Sinclair (independent)
Ivan Taylor (independent)
Cameron Whittle (independent)

North Isles (three seats)

Stephen Clackson (independent)
Sebastian Hadfield-Hyde (independent)
Paul Rendall (independent)
Mellissa Thomson (independent)
Heather Woodbridge (independent)

Stromness and South Isles (three seats)

Graham Bevan (independent)
Maia Brodie (Scottish Greens)
Rob Crichton (independent)
Lindsay Hall (independent)
James Stockan (independent)
Magnus Thomson (independent)

West Mainland (four seats)

Rachael King (independent)
Sean Lewis (independent)
Jean Stevenson (independent)
Owen Tierney (independent)
Duncan Tullock (independent)
Helen Woodsford-Dean (Scottish Greens)

Anyone aged 16 or over that day, resident in Orkney and registered to vote, will be able to vote. Letters have recently been sent to all properties, listing electors who are currently registered to vote and if they have a postal vote in place.

Anyone not included on that letter can register to vote between now and Monday, April 18. Anyone registered to vote but not listed as a postal voter can apply to vote by post which must be returned by 5pm on Tuesday, April 19, or sooner.

For full coverage of the election as we head towards polling day, pick up The Orcadian, available in shops and online from Wednesday each week.