Inverness and Nairn (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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

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

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.

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

Member of the Scottish Parliament

As Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber

	Member	Party
1999	Fergus Ewing	Scottish National Party
2003
2007

As Inverness and Nairn

Election		Member	Party
	2011	Fergus Ewing	Scottish National Party
	2016	Fergus Ewing	Scottish National Party

Election results

Fergus Ewing.

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: 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	-4.2
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline Caddick	5,445	14.2	+2.7
Majority			10,857	28.3	-1.5
Turnout			38,317	57.5	+5.1
	SNP hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Inverness and Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Fergus Ewing	16,870	51.5	+10.6
	Labour	David Stewart	7,125	21.8	+0.9
	Conservative	Mary Scanlon	3,797	11.6	+1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Jardine	3,763	11.5	-15.9
	Scottish Christian	Donald Boyd	646	2.0	N/A
	UKIP	Ross Durance	530	1.6	N/A
Majority			9,745	29.8
Turnout			32,731	52.4
	SNP hold		Swing	+4.8

Scottish Christian and UKIP both gained under 5% of the poll and thus lost their deposit

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Inverness and Nairn
Party		Votes	%
	SNP	15,101	41.0
	Liberal Democrats	10,106	27.4
	Labour	7,702	20.9
	Conservative	3,885	10.5
	Others	56	0.2
Majority		4,995	13.6
	SNP hold	Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Fergus Ewing	16,443	41.5	+10.6
	Liberal Democrats	Craig Harrow	10,972	27.7	+11.5
	Labour	Linda Stewart	7,559	19.1	-8.8
	Conservative	Jamie Halcro Johnston	4,635	11.7	-6.1
Majority			5,471	13.8
Rejected ballots			1,249
Turnout			36,609	55.3	+3.1
	SNP hold		Swing	0.5

Notes and references

« 1999–2011 « Electoral regions and constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 2011–

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