Orkney Manifesto Group
Leader	Rachael King
Founded	March 2013; 11 years ago (2013-03)
Dissolved	29 March 2022; 2 years ago (2022-03-29)
Headquarters	Sycamore Main Street Kirkwall KW15 1BU
Orkney Islands Council	0 / 21
Website
orkneycommunities.co.uk/omg
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The Orkney Manifesto Group (OMG) was a minor political party in Orkney, Scotland. The group advocated for politicisation of Orkney Islands Council, believing that party-based representation would offer more robust democratic governance than the current council of elected independents.^[1] The OMG started as an alliance of three Independents who campaigned on a joint manifesto for the 2012 election,^[2] before finally registering as a party in 2013.^[3]

The party won two seats at the 2017 Orkney Islands Council election.^[4]

The party de-registered with the Electoral Commission on 29 March 2022, and as a result has fielded no candidates in the 2022 Orkney election.^[3] Rachael King is the only OMG councillor to seek re-election, as an independent candidate.

Election results

West Mainland by-election

In its first electoral test as a registered party, Rachael King was elected in a by-election for the West Mainland ward following the death of the incumbent councillor Alistair Gordon (first elected as an Independent, he had helped set up the OMG).^[5] Having won a majority of first preference votes, she was elected in the first round.

Orkney Islands Council election

Year	Votes	FPV%	Seats	+/-
2017	894	12.1%	2 / 21	2