Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)

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Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber County constituency
Created:	1983
Abolished:	1997
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 (later Baron Russell-Johnston), who had been, previously, MP for the Inverness constituency.

[edit] Election results

General Election 1992: Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Sir David Russell Johnston	13,258	26.0	-10.8
	Labour	David John Stewart	12,800	25.2	-0.2
	Scottish National Party	Fergus Stewart Ewing	12,562	24.7	+9.9
	Conservative	J. Scott	11,517	22.6	-0.4
	Green	J. Martin	766	1.5	N/A

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
	Scottish National Party	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	N/A
	Conservative	D.G. Maclean	13,373	29.8	N/A
	Labour	D. McMillan	6,448	14.4	N/A
	Scottish National Party	H.W. Vernal	4,395	9.8	N/A