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Revision as of 23:57, 2 April 2021

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
Created2011
PartyScottish National Party
MSPFergus Ewing
Council areaHighland
Created fromInverness East, Nairn & Lochaber,
Ross, Skye & Inverness West

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

See also: Highlands and Islands (Scottish Parliament 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:

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

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2021 Scottish Parliament election: Inverness and Nairn
Party Candidate Constituency Regional
Votes % ±% Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats David Gregg
Restore Scotland Andrew MacDonald[a]
Conservative Edward Mountain[a]
Scottish Green Ariane Burgess
Labour Rhoda Grant
SNP Fergus Ewing[b]
Alba
All For Unity
Reform UK
UKIP
Scottish Libertarian
Notes
  1. ^ a b Incumbent member on the party list, or for another constituency
  2. ^ Incumbent member for this constituency

2010s

2016 Scottish Parliament election: Inverness and Nairn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SNP Fergus Ewing 18,505 48.3 −3.2
Conservative Edward Mountain 7,648 20.0 +8.4
Labour David Stewart 6,719 17.5 −4.3
Liberal Democrats Carolyn Caddick 5,445 14.2 +2.7
Majority 10,857 28.3 −1.4
Turnout 38,317 57.5 +5.1
SNP hold Swing -5.8
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)

Notes and references

See also

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