Fort William is a town in Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands,located on the eastern shore of Loch Linnhe. At the 2011 census,Fort William had a population of 15,757,making it the second-largest settlement both in the Highland council area and in the whole of the Scottish Highlands;only the city of Inverness has a larger population.
Highland is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in the United Kingdom. It was the 7th most populous council area in Scotland at the 2011 census. It has land borders with the council areas of Aberdeenshire,Argyll and Bute,Moray and Perth and Kinross. The wider upland area of the Scottish Highlands after which the council area is named extends beyond the Highland council area into all the neighbouring council areas plus Angus and Stirling.
Inverness is a city in the Scottish Highlands,having been granted city status in 2000. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands.
Cromarty is a town,civil parish and former royal burgh in Ross and Cromarty,in the Highland area of Scotland. Situated at the tip of the Black Isle on the southern shore of the mouth of Cromarty Firth,it is 5 miles (8 km) seaward from Invergordon on the opposite coast. In the 2001 census,it had a population of 719.
Lochaber is a name applied to a part of the Scottish Highlands. Historically,it was a provincial lordship consisting of the parishes of Kilmallie and Kilmonivaig. Lochaber once extended from the Northern shore of Loch Leven,a district called Nether Lochaber,to beyond Spean Bridge and Roybridge,which area is known as Brae Lochaber or Braigh Loch Abar in Gaelic. For local government purposes,the name was used for one of the landward districts of Inverness-shire from 1930 to 1975,and then for one of the districts of the Highland region from 1975 to 1996. Since 1996 the Highland Council has had a Lochaber area committee.
Dingwall is a town and a royal burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland. It has a population of 5,491. It was an east-coast harbour that now lies inland.
The Highlands and Islands is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament,created in 1999. Eight of the parliament's first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs).
Caithness,Sutherland and Easter Ross is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). It is the most northerly constituency on the British mainland. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.
Inverness,Nairn,Badenoch and Strathspey was a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. As with all seats since 1950 it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Ross,Skye and Lochaber was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
The Highlands and Islands is an area of Scotland broadly covering the Scottish Highlands,plus Orkney,Shetland,and the Outer Hebrides.
Clan MacDonell of Glengarry,also known as Clan Ranald of Knoydart &Glengarry is a Highland Scottish clan and is a branch of the larger Clan Donald. The clan takes its name from River Garry where the river Garry runs eastwards through Loch Garry to join the Great Glen about 16 miles (25 km) north of Fort William,Highland. The progenitor of the MacDonells of Glengarry is Reginald,4th great-grandson of the warrior Somerled. The clan chief is traditionally designated as the "Son of Alexander's son".
Ross,Skye and Inverness West was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also,however,it is one of eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to eight constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Inverness East,Nairn and Lochaber was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It was one of eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
The Crofters' Party was the parliamentary arm of the Highland Land League. It gained five MPs in the 1885 general election and a sixth the following year.
The politics of the Highland council area in Scotland are evident in the deliberations and decisions of the Highland Council,in elections to the council,and in elections to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) and the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). In the European Parliament the area was within the Scotland constituency,which covers all of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
The 2011 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday,5 May 2011 to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament.
Inverness-shire or the County of Inverness,is a historic county in Scotland. It is named after Inverness,its largest settlement,which was also the county town. Covering much of the Highlands and some of the Hebrides,it is Scotland's largest county by land area. It is generally rural and sparsely populated,containing only three towns which held burgh status,being Inverness,Fort William and Kingussie. The county is crossed by the Great Glen,which contains Loch Ness and separates the Grampian Mountains to the south-east from the Northwest Highlands. The county also includes Ben Nevis,the highest mountain in both Scotland and the United Kingdom.
Elections to The Highland Council were held on 5 May 2022,the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. As with other Scottish council elections,it was held using single transferable vote (STV) –a form of proportional representation –in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference.
Inverness,Skye and West Ross-shire is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies,it was first contested at the 2024 general election,and was the final constituency to announce its result,due to multiple recounts related to technical issues in its vote-counting.
