TheOrkney and Shetland Movement was anelectoral coalition formed for the1987 general election comprising the Orkney Movement andShetland Movement, political parties which advocated autonomy for Orkney and Shetland. They agreed on selectingJohn Goodlad, the secretary of theShetland Fishermen's Association,[1] as a joint candidate for theOrkney and Shetland constituency. TheScottish National Party agreed to stand aside in favour of the coalition.
Their candidate won 3,095 votes, which represented 14.5% of the vote in the small seat, but came fourth, just behind theLabour Party, the best result at the time for a candidate not from one of the four main parties in Scotland.[2]
They took part in the 1989Scottish Constitutional Convention that developed a framework for the eventualScottish devolution in 1999.[3]
It saw as its models theIsle of Man and theFaroe Islands, an autonomous dependency of Denmark.[4]
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