Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. There was also an Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (Scottish Parliament constituency), 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), Highland council area. The other two were Ross, Skye and Inverness West (UK Parliament constituency), Ross, Skye and Inverness West and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (UK Parliament constituency), 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 Regions and districts of Scotland, region. The Highland area had been covered, previously, by the three constituencies of Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency), Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber, Ross, Cromarty and Skye (UK Parliament constituency), Ross, Cromarty and Skye and Caithness and Sutherland (UK Parliament constituency), 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 (UK Parliament constituency), Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Ross, Skye and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency), Ross, Skye and Lochaber and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (UK Parliament constituency), Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.

Members of Parliament

Throughout its relatively short existence, the constituency was represented by a single MP, David Stewart (Scottish politician), David Stewart of the Labour Party.

Election results

Election Results of the 2000s

Election Results of the 1990s

References

{{reflist Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 2005 Highland constituencies, UK Parliament (historic)