Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey in Scotland | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Highland and Moray |
Major settlements | Elgin, Nairn |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Graham Leadbitter (SNP) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Moray & Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey |
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election, and is currently represented by Graham Leadbitter.
The constituency will comprise all or part of the following wards of the Highland council area and Moray: [2]
(The former Moray constituency coincided with the Moray council area, so the above Moray constituency list also shows which of these wards are wards of Moray council area.)
Election | Member | Party | |
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2024 | Graham Leadbitter | SNP |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Graham Leadbitter | 14,961 | 32.1 | −14.0 | |
Conservative | Kathleen Robertson | 13,960 | 30.0 | −10.9 | |
Labour | James Hynam | 8,259 | 17.7 | +13.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Neil Alexander | 3,785 | 8.1 | +2.2 | |
Reform UK | Steve Skerret | 3,490 | 7.5 | +6.9 | |
Scottish Green | Draeyk Van Der Horn | 1,676 | 3.6 | +2.4 | |
Scottish Family | Euan Morrice | 423 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 1,001 | 2.1 | −2.1 | ||
Turnout | 46,554 | 60.4 | −13.4 | ||
Registered electors | 77,072 | ||||
SNP win (new seat) |
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