Election / Full list of elected community councillors after nominations close
There are more vacancies this time around compared to 2022 despite an advertising campaign
THE NUMBER of community council vacancies in Shetland has increased compared to the last time nominations were called for – despite an extensive advertising campaign.
Figures released by Shetland Islands Council on Thursday afternoon showed that 115 nominations were received, leaving 48 vacancies remaining.
In comparison, at the last elections in 2022 there were 38 vacancies left after nominations were submitted.
In recent weeks the SIC launched an advertising campaign encouraging people to stand for community councils, which included videos, social media ads and signs on the side of roads.
The only community council in the 2025 round of nominations with a full complement is Skerries, which has five members.
There are no contested seats, so there will be no votes at any ballot box.
People can still apply to be co-opted onto a community council, with folk advised to get in touch with the clerk of their local community council.
Some community councils came close to filling their complement, with Burra and Trondra, Fetlar and Tingwall, Whiteness and Weisdale left with only one vacancy each.
The full list of community councillors elected are:
Bressay (six elected, two vacancies remaining)
- Katrina Gifford
- Margaret Macdonald
- Ruth Mackenzie
- Graham March
- Andrea Sanchez Quiroz
- Lindsay Tulloch
Burra and Trondra (seven elected, one vacancy remaining)
- Brian Adamson
- Neil Beattie
- Mark Fullerton
- Narene Fullerton
- Mhairi Garnier
- Gary Laurenson
- Carole Smith
Delting (eight elected, four vacancies remaining)
- David Clark
- Alastair Cooper
- Julie Margaret Dennison
- Rosalind Griffiths
- Sam Mcdonald
- Jim Milne
- Errol Smith
- Tommy Tyler
Dunrossness (seven elected, five vacancies remaining)
- Aileen Brown
- Helen Budge
- Irvine Burgess
- Antonia Colvin
- Fiona Campbell Mitchell
- Allen Sinclair
- Agnes Tallack
Fetlar (five elected, one vacancy remaining)
- Lucy Cummings
- Mike Fogarty
- Julie Maguire
- James Rendall
- Russell Simpson
Gulberwick, Quarff and Cunningsburgh (seven elected, three vacancies remaining)
- Pat Christie
- Colin Clark
- Maureen Davis
- Karen Mackay
- Eric Semple
- Danielle Smith
- Liam Summers
Lerwick (ten elected, six vacancies remaining)
- Jim Anderson
- Andy Carter
- Karen Fraser
- Brian Harris
- Amanda Hawick
- Robert Leask
- Shayne McLeod
- Scott Nicolson
- Cheryl Palmer-Johnson
- Diana Winfield
Nesting and Lunnasting (six elected, two vacancies remaining)
- Fiona Gray
- Shaun Johnson
- Gary Leask
- Michael Manson
- Grant Nicol
- Dougie Stevenson
Northmaven (seven elected, two vacancies remaining)
- Grant George Robert Anderson
- David Christopher Brown
- Roșie Doull
- Bob McGeady
- John Parry
- Erik John Robertson
- Derek Robertson
Sandness and Walls (five elected, five vacancies remaining)
- Jane Haswell
- Sorley Johnston
- Jonathan Laing
- Jane Puckey
- Haydn Robertson
Sandsting and Aithsting (six elected, two vacancies remaining)
- Duncan Thomas George Anderson
- Ewan Anderson
- Sharon Deyell
- Joanne Fraser
- John Tait Priest
- Kevin Tulloch
Sandwick (six elected, two vacancies remaining)
- Janet Dunnet
- Debbie Jamieson
- Jim Leask
- Yvonne Malcolmson
- Kevin Sandison
- Jeemie Smith
Scalloway (six elected, three vacancies remaining)
- Lawson Bisset
- Andrew Blackadder
- Mark Burgess
- Kenny Pottinger
- Nicole Elizabeth Simpson
- Marie Williamson
Skerries (five elected, no vacancies)
- Frances Anderson
- Marina Anderson
- Janice Hughson
- Paul James
- Marina Tait
Tingwall, Whiteness and Weisdale (eight elected, one vacancy remaining)
- Andrew Archer
- Margaret Cooper
- Charlie Hodge
- Neil Leask
- Selina-May Miller
- Martin Randall
- Linda Tulloch
- Birgit Wagner
Unst (six elected, three vacancies remaining)
- Caroline Hunter
- Brydon William Johnson
- John Peterson
- Janice Priest
- Alec Priest
- Ingram Thomson
Whalsay (four elected, three vacancies remaining)
- Richard Hutchison
- Jacqueline Katrina Leslie
- Helen Thomson
- Caroline Watt
Yell (six elected, three vacancies remaining)
- Jean Eunson
- Annette Jamieson
- Leslie Madden
- Laurence Odie
- Fiona Stirling
- Susan Williamson
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