Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)

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Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland Highland
1997–2005
SeatsOne
Created from Inverness, Nairn & Lochaber
Replaced by Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey and Ross, Skye & Lochaber

Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.

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There was also an Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber constituency of the Scottish Parliament, which was created with the same boundaries in 1999.

Boundaries

The constituency was created as one of three to cover the Highland council area. The other two were Ross, Skye and Inverness West and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.

The Highland area had become a unitary council area in 1996, under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994, and new constituency boundaries divided the areas of some of the former districts of the Highland region. The Highland area had been covered, previously, by the three constituencies of Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber, Ross, Cromarty and Skye and Caithness and Sutherland.

In 2005, constituency boundaries were redrawn again, and the Highland area was divided between three new constituencies (of which one carried forward the name of an older constituency): Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Ross, Skye and Lochaber and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.

Members of Parliament

Throughout its relatively short existence, the constituency was represented by a single MP, David Stewart of the Labour Party. [1]

Election results

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Inverness election history

Election Results of the 2000s

General election 2001: Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Stewart 15,605 36.8 +2.9
SNP Angus Brendan MacNeil 10,88925.6−3.4
Liberal Democrats Patsy Kenton9,42022.2+4.7
Conservative Richard Jenkins5,65313.3−4.2
Scottish Socialist Steve Arnott8942.0New
Majority4,71611.2+6.3
Turnout 42,46163.9−8.2
Labour hold Swing +3.2

Election Results of the 1990s

General election 1997: Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Stewart 16,187 33.9 +10.7
SNP Fergus Ewing 13,84829.0+3.9
Liberal Democrats Stephen Gallagher8,36417.5-9.2
Conservative Mary Scanlon 8,35517.5-6.0
Referendum Winnona Wall4360.9New
Scottish Green Murray Falconer3540.7
Independent Daniel Hart2240.5New
Majority2,3394.9+3.3
Turnout 47,76872.1-1.5
Labour win (new seat)
General election 1992: Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (Notional) [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats 26.7 N/A
SNP 25.1N/A
Conservative 23.5N/A
Labour 23.2N/A
Others1.5N/A

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References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "I"
  2. ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Scotland: Counties". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
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