Shetland Elects

Shetland Times poll:

Would you welcome the return of traffic wardens?

Yes: 63%
No: 37%

Period: 8-15 November 2025
Sample size: 98

(Note: unweighted, unscientific poll)

Faroe Islands, Spyr poll:

Parliament election

A (~EPP): 33% (+2)
B (~RE): 19% (-4)
E (~LEFT): 18% (+1)
C (S&D): 15%
F (~RE): 8% (+1)
H (~RE): 4% (-1)
D (~RE): 3% (+1)

+/- vs. 25 August 2025

Fieldwork: 03 November 2025
Sample size: 500

➤ europeelects.eu/faroe-islands

Shetland Times poll:

Are you climate concerned?

Yes: 77%
No: 23%

Period: 1-9 November 2025
Sample size: 126

(Note: unweighted, unscientific poll)

Nauru, constitutional referendum result:

Yes: 44.7%
No: 55.3%

The amendment to increase the parliamentary term from 3 to 4 years has been rejected. A two-thirds majority was required to pass the amendment.

➤oceaniaelects.com/nauru

#Nauru

Nauru, Final election result:

Seat count

Incumbent members (ind.): 16
New members (ind.): 3

+/- vs. Last election result

Marcus Stephen and David Adeang were re-elected as speaker and president and Isabella Dageago elected as deputy speaker

➤oceaniaelects.com/nauru

#Nauru

Shetland Times poll:

Would you support the introduction of Graduated Driver Licensing?

Yes: 39%
No: 61%

Period: 24 October - 1 November 2025
Sample size: 54

(Note: unweighted, unscientific poll)

Shetland Times poll:

Should Faroe end its tradition of hunting pilot whales?

Yes: 55%
No: 45%

Period: 17-24 October 2025
Sample size: 224

(Note: unweighted, unscientific poll)

‘Not enough done’ to achieve aims of 2020 self-determination motion – councillors critical of SIC’s performance five years on COUNCILLORS from opposite ends of the political spectrum have criticised the way council leadership is handling the quest for more “political and financial...

An update on the debate over whether Shetland Islands Council is fulfilling its 2020 self-determination motion. (I also love seeing how normal it now is for Shetland's local media to publish quotations in Shaetlan, giving them equal status to English quotations) www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/10/22/e...

Gulberwick, Quarff & Cunningsburgh: 7/10
Lerwick: 10/16
Nesting & Lunnasting: 6/8
Northmaven: 7/9
Sandness & Walls: 5/10
Sandsting & Aithsting: 6/8
Sandwick: 6/8
Scalloway: 6/9
Skerries: 5/5
Tingwall, Whiteness & Weisdale: 8/9
Unst: 6/9
Whalsay: 4/7
Yell: 6/9

(2/2)

As in 2022, there will be no community council elections in Shetland this year due to a lack of nominations. Only one CC - Skerries - had been able to fill all its seats.

Filled seats per community council:

Bressay: 6/8
Burra & Trondra: 7/8
Delting: 8/12
Dunrossness: 7/12
Fetlar: 5/6

(1/2)

Shetland Times poll:

Have we become less resilient to stormy weather?

Yes: 76%
No: 24%

Period: 10-17 October 2025
Sample size: 248

(Note: unweighted, unscientific poll)

Shetland (Scottish Parliament regional list vote), Shetland Elects September 2025 projection:

Liberal Democrats: 33% (+3)
Scottish National Party: 24% (+2)
Reform UK: 17%
Greens: 11% (-3)
Labour: 7% (-5)
Conservatives: 5% (+2)
Alba: 3% (+1)

+/- vs. August projection

Shetland (Scottish Parliament constituency), Shetland Elects September 2025 projection:

Liberal Democrats: 47% (-1)
Scottish National Party: 27% (+2)
Reform UK: 17% (+2)
Greens: 6% (-1)
Alba: 1%
Conservatives: <1%
Labour: <1% (-~3)

+/- vs. August 2025 projection

New Zealand, Preliminary results:

Māori ward referendums, No. of councils voting Keep or Remove

Remove: 24
Keep: 18

➤ oceaniaelects.com/new-zealand

Shetland Times poll:

Should Shetland Islands Council debate motions relating to international affairs?

Yes: 19%
No: 81%

Period: 3-11 October 2025
Sample size: 344

(Note: unweighted, unscientific poll)

New Zealand, Progress results:

Wellington mayoral election

Little (Labour-Centre-left): 56.9% (+56.9)
Tiefenbacher (Ind.-*): 14.6% (+14.6)
Chung (Ind.-*): 11.4% (-3.0)
Baker (Ind.-*): 7.8% (+7.8)
Calvert (Ind.-*): 5.2% (+5.2)
...

+/- vs. 2022 result

➤ oceaniaelects.com/new-zealand

New Zealand, Progress results:

Auckland mayoral election

Brown (Ind.-*): 54.3% (+9.4)
Leoni (Ind.-*): 20.9% (+20.9)
Johnston (Ind.-*): 8.0% (+6.8)
Stam (Ind.-*): 3.9% (+3.9)
Alcock (Ind.-*): 3.3% (+2.0)
...

+/- vs. 2022 result

➤ oceaniaelects.com/new-zealand

Council leader trains to island's gravedigger To tackle a lack of age appropriate cemetery workers, Heather Woodbridge has taken matters into her own hands

Heather Woodbridge (North Isles, Independent), the Leader of Orkney Islands Council, has taken on a second job - as the resident gravedigger of North Ronaldsay.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shetland Times poll:

Should it be easier for schools to exclude problem pupils?

Yes: 81%
No: 19%

Period: 26 September - 4 October 2025
Sample size: 881

(Note: unweighted, unscientific poll)

Cable damage causes more internet disruption DAMAGE to a subsea cable has been pinpointed as the reason why a number of people in Shetland have lost their broadband connection today (Friday). It is the...

Subsea cable damage to Shetland has gone from happening every two years to happening every two months, apparently www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/10/03/i...

Orkney MSP and Scottish Parliament Deputy Presiding Officer, Liam McArthur (Liberal Democrat), has been named "MSP of the Year" in the Holyrood Magazine's annual awards.

Last year, McArthur introduced the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill to the Scottish Parliament.

Orkney and Shetland Westminster constituency, More in Common MRP projection:

Liberal Democrat: 41% (+3)
Reform UK: 31% (+14)
Scottish National Party: 14% (-5)
Labour: 7% (+1)
Conservative: 2% (-3)

+/- vs. 13-30 June 2025

Fieldwork: 8 August - 15 September 2025

Shetland Times poll:

Would you buy an electric vehicle?

Yes: 25%
No: 75%

Period: 19-26 September 2025
Sample size: 683

(Note: unweighted, unscientific poll)

Orkney and Shetland UK constituency, YouGov MRP projection:

Liberal Democrat: 49%
Reform UK: 16%
Scottish National Party: 13% (-2)
Green: 11% (+3)
Labour: 6% (-1)
Conservative: 4% (-1)

+/- vs. 29 May - 18 June 2025

Fieldwork: 31 August - 24 September 2025

CnES chief announces he's leaving (updated) For the local news and events in the Western Isles, We Love Stornoway connects our island communities, highlighting key happenings and sharing positive stories.

Malcolm Burr, Chief Executive of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar and Scotland's longest-serving council chief executive, has announced that he will be standing down after 20 years in the role. welovestornoway.com/index.php/ar...

Shetland News survey:

Should more powers be handed over to Shetland?

Yes: 65%
No: 23%
Not sure: 12%

Period: 28 August - 12 September 2025
Sample size: over 360

(Note: unweighted, unscientific survey)

More details: www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/09/16/m...

Two new MSYPs elected to represent Shetland – Shetland Islands Council Two new Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYPs) have been elected to represent Shetland, at the Annual General Meeting on Tuesday of local youth forum Shetland Youth Voice.

Ava Williamson and Beenie-Ann Wood have been elected as Shetland's next members of the Scottish Youth Parliament. They will represent Shetland until the next full Scottish Youth Parliament election next year.

www.shetland.gov.uk/news/article...

John Erksine has been selected as Labour's candidate for Shetland in next year's Scottish Parliament election. He previously stood for election in the Highlands and Islands region in 2021.

The other confirmed candidates are Hannah Mary Goodlad (SNP) and Emma Macdonald (Liberal Democrat).

Scottish Household Survey 2024:

Percentage in Shetland sample (300) who agree that their council

Treats people with dignity and respect: 79% (+13)
Provides high quality services: 60% (-4)
Does the best it can with the money available: 58% (+10)
Lets them influence decisions: 21% (-3)

+/- vs. 2023

Shetland Times poll:

Do you welcome the council's plans to install more speed bumps in Lerwick?

Yes: 7%
No: 93%

Period: 11-20 September 2025
Sample size: 1,735

(Note: unweighted, unscientific poll)