Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber
Type = County
Year = 1997
Abolition = 2005
Members = One

Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the 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.

There is also an Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber constituency of the Scottish Parliament, which was created with the same boundaries in 1999.

Boundaries

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.

Member of Parliament

Throughout the 1997 to 2005 period, the constituency was represented by a Labour Party MP: David John Stewart.

Election results

Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = David Stewart
votes = 15,605
percentage = 36.8
change = +2.9Election box candidate with party link
party = Scottish National Party
candidate = Angus MacNeil
votes = 10,889
percentage = 25.6
change = −3.4Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Patsy Kenton
votes = 9,420
percentage = 22.2
change = +4.7Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Richard Jenkins
votes = 5,653
percentage = 13.3
change = −4.2Election box candidate with party link
party = Scottish Socialist Party
candidate = Steve Arnott
votes = 894
percentage = 2.0
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 4,716
percentage = 11.1
change = +6.2Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 63.9
change = −8.2Election box hold with party link
winner = Labour Party (UK)
swing = 3.2

Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = David Stewart
votes = 16,187
percentage = 33.9
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Scottish National Party
candidate = Fergus Ewing
votes = 13,848
percentage = 29.0
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Stephen Gallagher
votes = 8,364
percentage = 17.5
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Mary Scanlon
votes = 8,355
percentage = 17.5
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Referendum Party
candidate = Winnona Wall
votes = 436
percentage = 0.9
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Scottish Green Party
candidate = Murray Falconer
votes = 354
percentage = 0.7
change = "N/A"Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = Daniel Hart
votes = 224
percentage = 0.5
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 2,339
percentage = 4.9
change = "N/A"Election box turnout
votes =
percentage = 72.1
change = "N/A"