1974 Shetland Islands Area Council election

Elections to the Shetland Islands Council were held on 7 May 1978 as part of Scottish local elections. This was the first election for the all-purpose Shetland Islands Council, as established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, combining the Lerwick Town Council and the Zetland County Council. 11 seats were uncontested.

Aggregate results

Shetland Islands Council election, 1990
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Independent	21	N/A	N/A	N/A	84
	Labour	4	N/A	N/A	N/A	16

Elections and referendums in Shetland
Zetland County Council	1890 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1929 1932 1935 1938 1945 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973
Shetland Islands Council	1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1999 2003 2007 2012 2017
Referendums	1978

(1973 ←) 1974 United Kingdom local elections (→ 1975)
London boroughs	Barking Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster
District councils (Scotland)	Aberdeen Angus Annandale and Eskdale Argyll Badenoch and Strathspey Banff and Buchan Bearsden and Milngavie Berwickshire Bishopbriggs and Kirkintilloch Caithness Clackmannan Clydebank Cumbernauld Cumnock and Doon Valley Cunninghame Dumbarton Dundee Dunfermline East Kilbride East Lothian Eastwood Edinburgh Ettrick and Lauderdale Falkirk Glasgow Gordon Hamilton Inverclyde Inverness Kilmarnock and Loudoun Kincardine and Deeside Kirkcaldy Kyle and Carrick Lanark Lochaber Merrick Midlothian Monklands Moray Motherwell Nairn Nithsdale North East Fife Perth and Kinross Renfrew Ross and Cromarty Roxburgh Skye and Lochalsh Stewartry Stirling Sutherland Tweeddale West Lothian
Regional councils (Scotland)	Borders Central Dumfries and Galloway Fife Grampian Highland Lothian Orkney Shetland Strathclyde Tayside Western Isles
See also: UK General election (Feb) UK General election (Oct)

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