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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.
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,as they were before being reduced in extent by the creation of Quoad Sacra parishes in the 19th century. 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. Lochaber is now also used to refer to a much wider area,one of the 16 ward management areas of the Highland Council of Scotland and one of eight former local government districts of the two-tier Highland region. The main town of Lochaber is Fort William.
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).
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.
Orkney is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering the council area of Orkney. 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,in addition to the eight constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Na h-Eileanan an Iar,formerly the Western Isles,is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering the council area of Na h-Eileanan Siar. 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,in addition to the eight 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.
Lochaber High School is a six-year comprehensive secondary school located in the town of Fort William,Lochaber,in the Highland region of Scotland.
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Highlands and Islands Enterprise is the development agency for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. It is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government. Its role is to "help build a prosperous,sustainable and inclusive economy across the Highlands and Islands,attracting more people to live,work,study,invest and visit."
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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.
Ian Blackford is a Scottish politician who served as Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the House of Commons from 2017 to 2022. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ross,Skye and Lochaber since 2015.
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