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 shares borders with the council areas of Aberdeenshire,Argyll and Bute,Moray and Perth and Kinross. Their councils,and those of Angus and Stirling,also have areas of the Scottish Highlands within their administrative boundaries.
Fergus Stewart Ewing is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as the Scottish Government's Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and Tourism from 2016 to 2021,having previously held two junior ministerial posts. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 1999,representing Inverness East,Nairn and Lochaber until 2011,and then its successor seat Inverness and Nairn.
David John Stewart is a Scottish politician who served as convener of the Public Petitions Committee from 2011 to 2016. A member of the Scottish Labour Party and Co-operative Party,he was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Highlands and Islands region from 2007 to 2021 and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Inverness East,Nairn and Lochaber from 1997 to 2005.
The County of Nairn is a historic county,registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. The county was used for local administration until the county council,based at the county town of Nairn,was abolished in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973,the area becoming one of the eight districts of the two-tier Highland region. This arrangement ended in 1996 when the Highland council area was made a unitary authority.
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 is a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. As with all seats since 1950 it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Moray was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. 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.
Caithness,Sutherland and Easter Ross was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood),in use between 1999 and 2011. It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also,however,it was 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.
Sir Daniel Grian Alexander is a former politician who was Chief Secretary to the Treasury between 2010 and 2015. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Inverness,Nairn,Badenoch &Strathspey constituency from 2005 until the general election in May 2015. In his first parliamentary term (2005–2010),Alexander was the Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Work and Pensions (2007–2008),the Chief of Staff to party leader Nick Clegg,and Chair of the Liberal Democrat Manifesto Group (2007–2010).
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 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 Highland Council,the political body covering the Highland local authority created in 1995,comprises 21 wards,each electing three or four councillors by the single transferable vote system,which creates a form of proportional representation. The total number of councillors is 74,and the main meeting place and main offices are at the Highland Council Headquarters in Glenurquhart Road,Inverness.
Inverness and Nairn is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the Highland council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region,which elects seven additional members,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Skye,Lochaber and Badenoch is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the Highland council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region,which elects seven additional members,as well as eight constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
The 2012 Highland Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Highland Council. The election used the twenty-two wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004,with each ward electing three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote system and 80 Councillors being elected.
There was a Scottish National Party leadership election to choose the new Depute leader of the Scottish National Party at the SNP's conference on 14–15 October 2016. The SNP's Westminster Group Leader Angus Robertson MP won the election.
Inverness,Skye and West Ross-shire is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies,it will first be contested at the 2024 general election.
Moray West,Nairn and Strathspey is a proposed constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies,it will first be contested at the 2024 general election.
