ORKNEY (SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Orkney' is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to eight constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Contents

Electoral region

Constituency boundaries and council area

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election results

Notes

Electoral region

:''See also ''Highlands and Islands Scottish Parliament region
The other seven constituencies of the Highlands and Islands electoral region are Argyll and Bute, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Moray, Ross, Skye and Inverness West, Shetland and the Western Isles.
The region covers most of Argyll and Bute council area, all of the Highland council area, most of the Moray council area, all of the Orkney Isles council area, all of the Shetland Isles council area and all of Na h-Eileanan Siar.

Constituency boundaries and council area

The Orkney constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, to cover the Orkney Isles council area. In the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster), the council area is covered by the Orkney and Shetland constituency, which also covers the Shetland Isles council area.^[1].

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1999	Jim Wallace	Liberal Democrat
	2003
	2007	Liam McArthur

Election results

Notes

1. See ''The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland''