Mr Alistair Carmichael

The Rt Hon Mr Alistair Carmichael is the Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, and has been an MP continually since 7 June 2001.

Last election result

Review the last election result for the constituency Orkney and Shetland when Mr Alistair Carmichael was elected.

2024 General Election

The 2024 General Election was held on 4 July 2024. A total of 6 candidates ran for election.

Summary

LD
Liberal Democrat Hold
Majority
7,807
Electorate
34,236
Turnout
60.4%

You can view more detailed information about this election result on the election result pages.

UK Parliamentary constituency boundaries have changed following a review in 2023. For the 2024 General Election, changes in vote share, majorities and turnout are calculated on the basis of 2019 notional results. Find out more about constituency boundary changes in this BBC explainer.*

*Estimates compiled by Professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher on behalf of BBC News, ITV News, Sky News and the Press Association. Calculations for Scotland done by Professor David Denver, those for Northern Ireland by Nicholas Whyte.

Share of the vote

The graph below shows the share of the vote across all the candidates.

Breakdown

The table below shows the individual vote breakdown for each candidate.

Candidate/Party Votes Share Change
Alistair Carmichael
Liberal Democrat
11,392 55.1% 10.2%
Robert Leslie
Scottish National Party
3,585 17.3% -16.7%
Alex Armitage
Scottish Green Party
2,046 9.9% 9.9%
Robert Smith
Reform UK
1,586 7.7% 3.8%
Conor Savage
Labour
1,493 7.2% 0.5%
Shane Painter
Conservative
586 2.8% -7.0%