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Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)

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Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.

Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of ScotlandHighland
1983–1997
SeatsOne
Created fromArgyll, Inverness and Moray and Nairn
Replaced byInverness East, Nairn & Lochaber and Ross, Skye & Inverness West

History

Boundaries

The constituency was created to cover four of the eight districts of Highland local government region: the Inverness district, the Nairn district, the Lochaber district and the Badenoch and Strathspey district. The region and districts had been created in 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, when the county and burgh system of local government was abolished. The other districts of the region were covered by the Ross, Cromarty and Skye constituency and the Caithness and Sutherland constituency.

In 1996, under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994, the districts were abolished and the region became a unitary council area.

In 1997, constituency boundaries were redrawn to divide the Highland area between three new constituencies: Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Ross, Skye and Inverness West and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross. New constituency boundaries divided the areas of some of the former districts.

Member of Parliament

Throughout the 1983 to 1997 period, the constituency was represented by a Liberal, and then Liberal Democrat, MP: Sir David Russell Johnston[1] (later Baron Russell-Johnston), who had been, previously, MP for the Inverness constituency.

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

In the 1992 election, the four major parties were separated by only 3.41%, the closest four-way result in an election to the UK Parliament since 1918.[2]

General Election 1992: Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Sir David Russell Johnston 13,258 26.0 −10.8
Labour David John Stewart 12,800 25.1 −0.2
SNP Fergus Stewart Ewing 12,562 24.7 +9.9
Conservative J Scott 11,517 22.6 −0.4
Green J Martin 766 1.5 +1.5
Majority 458 0.9 −10.6
Turnout 50,903 73.6 +2.7
Liberal Democrats hold Swing −5.3

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Sir David Russell Johnston 17,422 36.8 −9.2
Labour David John Stewart 11,991 25.4 +11.0
Conservative A.T. Keswick 10,901 23.0 −6.8
SNP N.P. Johnson 7,001 14.8 +5.0
General Election 1983: Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal David Russell Johnston 20,671 46.0 K.A.
Conservative D.G. Maclean 13,373 29.8 K.A.
Labour D. McMillan 6,448 14.4 K.A.
SNP H.W. Vernal 4,395 9.8 K.A.

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "I"
  2. ^ "Closest Three- and Four-Way Marginals since 1918". Retrieved May 28, 2009.
  3. ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.
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