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Inverness and Nairn
Inverness and Nairn
County constituency; for the Scottish Parliament
	Inverness and Nairn shown within the Highlands and Islands electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	Fergus Ewing
Council area	Highland
Created from	Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber,; Ross, Skye & Inverness West

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Inverness and Nairn is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). 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.

Electoral region

The Inverness and Nairn constituency is part of the Highlands and Islands electoral region; the other seven constituencies are Argyll and Bute, Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Moray, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Orkney, Shetland and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.

The region covers most of Argyll and Bute council area, all of the Highland council area, most of the Moray council area, all of the Orkney Islands council area, all of the Shetland Islands council area and all of Na h-Eileanan Siar.

Constituency boundaries and council area

The Highland (council area) is represented in the Scottish Parliament by three constituencies. These are: Caithness, Sutherland and Ross; Inverness and Nairn and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.

The electoral wards used to create the new Inverness and Nairn seat are:

In full: Inverness West; Inverness Central; Inverness Ness-Side; Inverness Millburn; Inverness South; Culloden and Ardersier; Nairn and Cawdor
In part: Badenoch and Strathspey

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" \|	2011	Fergus Ewing	Scottish National Party

Election results

2020s

2021 Scottish Parliament election: Inverness and Nairn^[1]
Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	Scottish Green	Ariane Burgess
	SNP	Fergus Ewing^[a]
	Labour Co-op	Rhoda Grant^[b]^[c]
	Liberal Democrats	David Gregg
	Restore Scotland	Andrew MacDonald
	Conservative	Edward Mountain^[c]
	Abolish the Scottish Parliament
	Alba
	All For Unity
	Freedom Alliance
	Reform UK
	Scottish Family
	Scottish Libertarian
	TUSC
	UKIP
	Independent	Hazel Mansfield
	Independent	Andy Wightman
Notes ^ Incumbent member for this constituency ^ Grant will stand on a joint ticket on behalf of Scottish Labour and the Scottish Co-operative Party. The regional list vote is for Scottish Labour only. ^ ^a ^b Incumbent member on the party list, or for another constituency

2010s

2016 Scottish Parliament election: Inverness and Nairn^[2]
Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Fergus Ewing^[a]	18,505	48.3	3.2	16,200	42.1
	Conservative	Edward Mountain	7,648	20.0	8.4	8,371	21.7
	Labour	David Stewart^[b]	6,719	17.5	4.3	5,162	13.4
	Liberal Democrats	Carolyn Caddick	5,445	14.2	2.7	3,688	9.6
	Scottish Green					3,146	8.2
	UKIP					916	2.4
	Scottish Christian					546	1.4
	Independent	James Stockan				174	0.4
	RISE					171	0.4
	Solidarity					142	0.4
Majority			10,857	28.3	1.4
Turnout			38,539	57.5	5.1	38,579	57.8
	SNP hold		Swing		5.8
Notes ^ Incumbent member for this constituency ^ Incumbent member on the party list, or for another constituency

2011 Scottish Parliament election: Inverness and Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Fergus Ewing	16,870	51.5	*N/A*
	Labour	David Stewart	7,125	21.8	N/A
	Conservative	Mary Scanlon	3,797	11.6	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Jardine	3,763	11.5	N/A
	Scottish Christian	Donald Boyd	646	2.0	N/A
	UKIP	Ross Durance	530	1.6	N/A
Majority			9,745	29.7	N/A
Turnout			32,731	52.4	N/A
	SNP win (new seat)

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