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Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It was one of eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Boundaries were redrawn before the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, dividing the area between Inverness and Nairn and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.
The other seven constituencies of the Highlands and Islands electoral region were Argyll and Bute, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Moray, Orkney, Ross, Skye and Inverness West, Shetland and the Western Isles.
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 council area, all of the Shetland council area and all of Na h-Eileanan Siar.
The Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of a pre-existing Westminster (House of Commons) constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster constituencies were generally replaced with new larger constituencies.[1] For representation at Westminster, the area of the Holyrood constituency is now divided between two constituencies: the Ross, Skye and Lochaber Westminster constituency and the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Westminster constituency.
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber is the most southerly of three Holyrood constituencies covering the Highland council area. The other two are Ross, Skye and Inverness West and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross. Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber has Ross, Skye and Inverness West on its northern boundary. Inverness East, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is further north. All three constituencies are within the Highlands and Islands electoral region.
When created in 1999 the constituency boundaries were definable with reference to council wards which were grouped, by the Highland Council, in relation to eight council management areas. Constituency and management area names have many elements in common, and the management areas had the boundaries of former districts of the Highland region, as abolished in 1996, namely Inverness, Nairn, Lochaber, Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh, Badenoch and Strathspey, Caithness and Sutherland.
The management areas were abolished in 2007, and the council has now three new corporate management areas, defined as groups of new wards, also introduced in 2007. The boundaries of the corporate management areas are similar to those of Westminster constituencies created in 2005. One corporate management area, the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross area, has boundaries, therefore, which are also similar to those of a Holyrood constituency. The boundaries of the other two corporate areas, the Ross, Skye and Lochaber area and the Inverness, Nairn, and Badenoch and Strathspey area, are quite unlike those of any Holyrood constituency.
The most recent general election of the Highland Council was this in 2007, and its current political composition is as follows:
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Plaid Cymru, European Parliament, Scottish Labour Party, Sinn Féin, Scottish Green Party
Scottish Labour Party, Scottish Green Party, Scottish Parliament, Scottish National Party, Alistair Carmichael
Gordon Brown, Scottish Liberal Democrats, Ed Miliband, Ramsay MacDonald, Kezia Dugdale
Scottish Labour Party, Scottish Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party, Scottish Green Party, Scottish Conservative Party
Scottish Labour Party, Scottish Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party, Scottish Conservative Party, Scottish Green Party
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency), Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Whisky, Inverness, Scotch whisky, Highland Main Line, Liberal Democrats
Labour Party (UK), Scottish National Party, Conservative Party (UK), House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Highland (council area)
Scottish Labour Party, Scottish Green Party, Member of the Scottish Parliament, Highlands and Islands (Scottish Parliament electoral region), Open University