Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 57°22′52″N 3°57′54″W / 57.381°N 3.965°W

Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey in Scotland.
Subdivisions of Scotland	Highland
Current constituency
Created	2005
Member of parliament	Drew Hendry (SNP)
Created from	Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber and Ross, Skye & Inverness West
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Scotland

Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The constituency covers a south-eastern portion of the Highland council area.

Boundaries

The constituency was created in 2005 by merging an area from Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber with an area from Ross, Skye and Inverness West. The rest of Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber was merged with most of the rest of Ross, Skye and Inverness West to form Ross, Skye and Lochaber. A small area of Ross, Skye and Inverness West was merged into Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.

For representation in the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) the area of the Westminster constituency is divided between Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (the Holyrood constituency) and Ross, Skye and Inverness West (the Holyrood constituency).

Local government area

See also Politics of the Highland council area

The Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency is one of three Westminster constituencies covering the Highland council area, the other two being Ross, Skye and Lochaber and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross. Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey covers a south-eastern portion of the council area, with Ross, Skye and Lochaber to its north and west, and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross further north.

When created in 2005, the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency covered 31 out of the 80 wards of the council area: 22 wards (all except Beauly and Strathglass) of the Inverness area committee, all four wards of the Nairn area committee and all five wards of the Badenoch and Strathspey area committee.

The City of Inverness, for which letters patent were granted in 2001, may be supposed to lie within the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency, but this city lacks clearly defined boundaries. The Highland Council management area of Inverness, as defined 1996 to 2007, included the former burgh of Inverness, as abolished in 1975, and the urban area centred on the burgh, and these do lie within the constituency. The management area included also a large rural area. As of 2007, the council has a city management area consisting of seven of the nine wards of its Inverness, Nairn and Badenoch and Strathspey corporate management area. The boundaries of his city management are similar to those of the older management area.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party
	2005	Danny Alexander	Liberal Democrat
	2015	Drew Hendry	SNP

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey[2][3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Drew Hendry[4]	28,838	50.1	+31.4
	Liberal Democrats	Danny Alexander	18,029	31.3	-9.4
	Labour	Mike Robb	4,311	7.5	-14.6
	Conservative	Edward Mountain	3,410	5.9	-7.4
	Scottish Green	Isla O'Reilly	1,367	2.4	+0.7
	UKIP	Les Durance	1,236	2.1	+0.9
	Scottish Christian	Donald Boyd[5]	422	0.7	-1.0
Majority			10,809	18.8
Turnout			57,613	74.2	+9.3
	SNP gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	+20.4

General Election 2010: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Danny Alexander	19,172	40.7	+0.4
	Labour	Mike Robb	10,407	22.1	−8.8
	SNP	John Finnie	8,803	18.7	+5.2
	Conservative	Jim Ferguson	6,278	13.3	+3.0
	Scottish Christian	Donald Boyd	835	1.8	N/A
	Scottish Green	Donnie MacLeod	789	1.7	−0.7
	UKIP	Ross Durance	574	1.2	N/A
	Solidarity (TUSC)	George MacDonald	135	0.3	N/A
	Joy of Talk	Kit Fraser	93	0.2	N/A
Majority			8,765	18.6
Turnout			47,086	64.9	+1.1
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+4.6

Elections in the 2000s

Note: The constituency was new in 2005 and +/- percentages are notional.

The 2005 election in Inverness

General Election 2005: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Danny Alexander	17,830	40.3	+10.8
	Labour	David Stewart	13,682	30.9	−1.3
	SNP	David Thompson	5,992	13.5	−9.5
	Conservative	Robert Rowantree	4,579	10.3	−2.0
	Scottish Green	Donnie MacLeod	1,065	2.4	N/A
	Publican Party	Donald Lawson	678	1.5	N/A
	Scottish Socialist	George MacDonald	429	1.0	−1.0
Majority			4,148	9.4
Turnout			44,255	63.6	+0.5
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing	+6.0

See also

• Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election in individual constituencies

Notes and references

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "I"
2. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
3. http://www.highland.gov.uk/news/article/8587/inverness_nairn_badenoch_and_strathspey_constituency_-_uk_parliamentary_general_election_result 6Aug15
4. https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/inverness/463181/snp-pick-highland-council-leader-fight-danny-alexanders-seat/
5. http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/invernessnairnbadenochandstrathspey/
6. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
7. "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.