I declare that the result of the Orkney Islands Council Local Government By-Election in the Stromness & South Isles Ward is as follows:

There's just over one week to go until voters in Stromness and the South Isles head to the polls in a by-election.  

The seat is vacant following the retirement of James Stockan and two candidates have put themselves forward for election. 

Postal voting packs for the forthcoming by-election in Stromness and the South Isles will start hitting door mats in the ward from next week (week beginning March 18). 

The deadline for applying for a new postal vote – or making changes to an existing postal or proxy vote - is 5.00pm on Wednesday 13 March.

Two candidates have put themselves forward for the vacant seat in the Stromness and South Isles by-election.

Voters will go to the polls on Thursday 28 March, with the names on the ballot paper being Janette Park and Magnus Thomson.  

I, Oliver David Reid, Returning Officer for the Election of Councillors to Orkney Islands Council, to be held on Thursday 28 March 2024, hereby give Notice that the following names and addresses of appointed election agents and the addresses of the offices or places of such election agents to which all claims, notices, legal process, and other documents addressed to them may be sent, have respectively been declared in writing to me as follows