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Inverness and Nairn is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the Highland council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of eight constituencies in the Highlands and Islands electoral region, which elects seven additional members, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
| Inverness and Nairn | |
|---|---|
| County constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
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.svg) Inverness and Nairn shown within the Highlands and Islands electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
| Population | 89,755 (2019)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2011 |
| Party | Scottish National Party |
| MSP | Fergus Ewing |
| Council area | Highland |
| Created from | Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber, Ross, Skye & Inverness West |
The seat was first created for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, and covers parts of the former seats of Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber and Ross, Skye & Inverness West. Since being formed it has been held by Fergus Ewing of the Scottish National Party, who was previously the member for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber.
The Inverness and Nairn constituency is part of the Highlands and Islands electoral region; the other seven constituencies are Argyll and Bute, Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Moray, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Orkney, Shetland and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.
The region covers most of Argyll and Bute council area, all of the Highland council area, most of the Moray council area, all of the Orkney Islands council area, all of the Shetland Islands council area and all of Na h-Eileanan Siar.
The Highland (council area) is represented in the Scottish Parliament by three constituencies. These are: Caithness, Sutherland and Ross; Inverness and Nairn and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.
The electoral wards used to create the new Inverness and Nairn seat are:
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Fergus Ewing | SNP | |
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Fergus Ewing[a] | 21,793 | 47.7 |  0.6 |
19,688 | 43.0 |  0.9 | |
| Conservative | Edward Mountain[b] | 12,679 | 27.7 | 7.7 |
12,045 | 26.3 | 4.6 | |
| Labour Co-op | Rhoda Grant[c][b] | 5,370 | 11.7 | 5.8 |
5,108 | 11.2 | 2.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | David Gregg | 2,892 | 6.3 | 7.9 |
2,820 | 6.2 | 3.4 | |
| Scottish Green | Ariane Burgess | 2,636 | 5.8 | New | 3,392 | 7.4 | 0.8 | |
| Alba | 754 | 1.6 | New | |||||
| Independent | Andy Wightman[d] | 661 | 1.4 | New | ||||
| Scottish Family | 335 | 0.7 | New | |||||
| All for Unity | 279 | 0.6 | New | |||||
| Freedom Alliance (UK) | 155 | 0.4 | New | |||||
| Restore Scotland | Andrew MacDonald | 361 | 0.8 | New | 130 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 108 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Reform UK | 100 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 76 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| UKIP | 67 | 0.1 | 2.3 | |||||
| TUSC | 52 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| Independent | Hazel Mansfield | 32 | 0.1 | New | ||||
| Majority | 9,114 | 20.0 | 8.3 |
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| Valid Votes | 45,731 | 45,802 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 137 | 79 | ||||||
| Turnout | 45,868 | 64.5 | 6.7 |
45,881 | 64.5 | 6.6 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | 4.2 |
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| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Fergus Ewing[a] | 18,505 | 48.3 | 3.2 |
16,200 | 42.1 | 6.4 | |
| Conservative | Edward Mountain | 7,648 | 20.0 | 8.4 |
8,371 | 21.7 | 10.4 | |
| Labour | David Stewart[b] | 6,719 | 17.5 | 4.3 |
5,162 | 13.4 | 4.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Carolyn Caddick | 5,445 | 14.2 | 2.7 |
3,688 | 9.6 | 0.1 | |
| Scottish Green | 3,146 | 8.2 | 3.3 | |||||
| UKIP | 916 | 2.4 | 1.0 | |||||
| Scottish Christian | 546 | 1.4 | 0.6 | |||||
| Independent | James Stockan | 174 | 0.4 | New | ||||
| RISE | 171 | 0.4 | New | |||||
| Solidarity | 142 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |||||
| Majority | 10,857 | 28.3 | 1.4 |
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| Valid Votes | 38,317 | 38,516 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 222 | 63 | ||||||
| Turnout | 38,539 | 57.8 | 5.0 |
38,579 | 57.9 | 5.1 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | 5.8 |
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| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Fergus Ewing[a] | 16,870 | 51.5 | N/A | 15,859 | 48.5 | N/A | |
| Labour | David Stewart[b] | 7,125 | 21.8 | N/A | 5,809 | 17.8 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Mary Scanlon[b] | 3,797 | 11.6 | N/A | 3,684 | 11.3 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Christine Jardine | 3,763 | 11.5 | N/A | 3,113 | 9.5 | N/A | |
| Scottish Green | 1,588 | 4.9 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Christian | Donald Boyd | 646 | 2.0 | N/A | 669 | 2.0 | N/A | |
| UKIP | Ross Durance | 530 | 1.6 | N/A | 448 | 1.4 | N/A | |
| All-Scotland Pensioners Party | 405 | 1.2 | N/A | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 334 | 1.0 | N/A | |||||
| BNP | 162 | 0.5 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | 84 | 0.3 | N/A | |||||
| Solidarity | 38 | 0.1 | N/A | |||||
| Others | 522 | 1.6 | N/A | |||||
| Majority | 9,745 | 29.7 | N/A | |||||
| Valid Votes | 32,731 | 32,715 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 99 | 99 | ||||||
| Turnout | 32,830 | 52.8 | N/A | 32,814 | 52.8 | N/A | ||
| SNP win (new seat) | ||||||||
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