Summary
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.
| Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
| Subdivisions of Scotland | Highland |
| 1997–2005 | |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Inverness, Nairn & Lochaber |
| Replaced by | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey and Ross, Skye & Lochaber |
There was also an Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber constituency of the Scottish Parliament, which was created with the same boundaries in 1999.
Boundaries edit
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 edit
Throughout its relatively short existence, the constituency was represented by a single MP, David Stewart of the Labour Party.[1]
Election results edit
Election Results of the 2000s edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | David Stewart | 15,605 | 36.8 | +2.9 | |
| SNP | Angus Brendan MacNeil | 10,889 | 25.6 | −3.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Patsy Kenton | 9,420 | 22.2 | +4.7 | |
| Conservative | Richard Jenkins | 5,653 | 13.3 | −4.2 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Steve Arnott | 894 | 2.0 | New | |
| Majority | 4,716 | 11.2 | +6.3 | ||
| Turnout | 42,461 | 63.9 | −8.2 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +3.2 | |||
Election Results of the 1990s edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | David Stewart | 16,187 | 33.9 | +10.7 | |
| SNP | Fergus Ewing | 13,848 | 29.0 | +3.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Stephen Gallagher | 8,364 | 17.5 | -9.2 | |
| Conservative | Mary Scanlon | 8,355 | 17.5 | -6.0 | |
| Referendum | Winnona Wall | 436 | 0.9 | New | |
| Scottish Green | Murray Falconer | 354 | 0.7 | ||
| Independent | Daniel Hart | 224 | 0.5 | New | |
| Majority | 2,339 | 4.9 | +3.3 | ||
| Turnout | 47,768 | 72.1 | -1.5 | ||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | 26.7 | N/A | |||
| SNP | 25.1 | N/A | |||
| Conservative | 23.5 | N/A | |||
| Labour | 23.2 | N/A | |||
| Others | 1.5 | N/A | |||
References edit
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "I"
- ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "Scotland: Counties". Election Demon. Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2015.