Highlands and Islands (Elective Region)
Highlands and Islands |
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Educated |
1999 |
Regions |
Argyll and Bute (parts) Outer Hebrides Highland Moray (parts) Orkney Shetland |
Seats |
Scottish National Party : 7 Conservative Party : 3 Labor Party : 2 Liberal Democrats : 2 Scottish Green : 1 |
Highlands and Islands is one of the eight Scottish electoral regions for election to the Scottish Parliament . It was created on the basis of the Scotland Act of 1998 and comprises the Council Areas Outer Hebrides , Highland , Orkney and Shetland as well as parts of the Argyll and Bute and Moray regions and is divided into eight constituencies. As part of the revision of the electoral regions in 2011, the external borders and the borders of the constituencies were redrawn. The first elections took place during the parliamentary elections on May 6, 1999.
The region of Mid Scotland and Fife is bordered from west to east by the electoral region of West Scotland , Mid Scotland and Fife and North East Scotland .
Geographical breakdown
Eight constituencies are summarized under the region, which, before the constituencies were revised in 2011, corresponded to the constituencies of the British Parliament in terms of designation and layout . Each constituency has a representative determined by majority voting . In addition, seven additional members are elected.
1999-2011
Constituency | map | region | |
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2011–
Constituency | map | region | |
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Election results
General election 1999
Results of the 1999 general election | ||||
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Political party | be right | % | Seats | Add. Member |
SNP | 55,593 | 27.7 | 2 | 2 |
Labor Party | 51,371 | 25.5 | 1 | 3 |
Liberal Democrats | 43,226 | 21.4 | 5 | 0 |
Conservative party | 31,122 | 14.9 | 0 | 2 |
Scottish Green | 7560 | 3.8 | 0 | 0 |
I noble | 3522 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 |
Socialist Labor | 2808 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 |
Highlands and Islands | 2607 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 |
Others | 4523 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 |
Mandates | ||
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Constituency | Elected | Political party |
Argyll and Bute | George Lyon | Liberal Democrats |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | Jamie Stone | Liberal Democrats |
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber | Fergus Ewing | SNP |
Moray | Margaret Ewing | SNP |
Orkney | Jim Wallace | Liberal Democrats |
Ross, Skye and Inverness West | John Farquhar Munro | Liberal Democrats |
Shetland | Tavish Scott | Liberal Democrats |
Western Isles | Alasdair Morrison | Labor |
Additional members | |
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Political party | Surname |
Labor |
Rhoda Grant Maureen Macmillan Peter Peacock |
SNP |
Winnie Ewing Duncan Hamilton |
Conservative |
Jamie McGrigor Mary Scanlon |
General election 2003
Results of the 2003 general election | |||||||
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Political party | be right | % | ± | Seats | ± | Add. Member | ± |
Scottish National Party | 39,497 | 23.4 | −4.3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Labor Party | 37,605 | 22.3 | −3.2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −1 |
Liberal Democrats | 31,655 | 18.8 | −2.6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Conservative party | 26,989 | 16.0 | +1.1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Scottish Green Party | 13,935 | 8.3 | +4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | +1 |
Socialist | 9000 | 5.3 | +4.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
UKIP | 1947 | 1.2 | +1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Robbie the Pict | 1822 | 1.1 | +0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Countryside party | 1768 | 1.1 | +1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Others | 2940 | 1.8 | −0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mandates | ||
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Constituency | Elected | Political party |
Argyll and Bute | George Lyon | Liberal Democrats |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | Jamie Stone | Liberal Democrats |
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber | Fergus Ewing | SNP |
Moray | Margaret Ewing | SNP |
Orkney | Jim Wallace | Liberal Democrats |
Ross, Skye and Inverness West | John Farquhar Munro | Liberal Democrats |
Shetland | Tavish Scott | Liberal Democrats |
Western Isles | Alasdair Morrison | Labor |
Additional members | |
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Political party | Surname |
SNP |
Rob Gibson Jim Mather |
Labor |
Maureen Macmillan Peter Peacock |
Conservative |
Jamie McGrigor Mary Scanlon |
Scottish Green | Eleanor Scott |
General election 2007
Results of the 2007 general election | |||||||
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Political party | be right | % | ± | Seats | ± | Add. Member | ± |
Scottish National Party | 63,979 | 34.4 | +11.0 | 4th | +2 | 2 | 0 |
Liberal Democrats | 37.001 | 19.9 | +1.1 | 4th | −1 | 0 | 0 |
Labor Party | 32,952 | 17.7 | −4.6 | 0 | −1 | 3 | +1 |
Conservative party | 23,334 | 12.6 | −3.4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Scottish Green | 8602 | 4.6 | -3.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 |
Scottish Christian | 6332 | 3.4 | +3.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Scottish Senior Citizens | 3841 | 2.1 | +2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BNP | 2152 | 1.2 | +1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Others | 7580 | 4.1 | +2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mandates | ||
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Constituency | Elected | Political party |
Argyll and Bute | Jim Mather | SNP |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | Jamie Stone | Liberal Democrats |
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber | Fergus Ewing | SNP |
Moray | Richard Lochhead | SNP |
Orkney | Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrats |
Ross, Skye and Inverness West | John Farquhar Munro | Liberal Democrats |
Shetland | Tavish Scott | Liberal Democrats |
Western Isles | Alasdair Allan | SNP |
Additional members | |
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Political party | Surname |
Labor |
Rhoda Grant Peter Peacock David Stewart |
SNP |
Rob Gibson David Thompson |
Conservative |
Jamie McGrigor Mary Scanlon |
Parliamentary election 2011
Results of the 2011 general election | |||||||
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Political party | be right | % | ± | Seats | ± | Add. Member | ± |
Scottish National Party | 85,082 | 47.5 | +13.1 | 6th | +2 | 3 | +1 |
Labor Party | 25,884 | 14.5 | −3.2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −1 |
Liberal Democrats | 21,729 | 12.1 | −7.8 | 2 | −2 | 0 | 0 |
Conservative party | 20,843 | 11.6 | −1.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Scottish Green | 9076 | 5.1 | +0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Scottish Christian | 3541 | 2.0 | −1.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
UKIP | 3372 | 1.9 | +1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
All Scotland Pensioners Party | 2770 | 1.5 | −0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Others | 7403 | 3.8 | −0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mandates | ||
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Constituency | Elected | Political party |
Argyll and Bute | Michael Russell | SNP |
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross | Rob Gibson | SNP |
Inverness and Nairn | Fergus Ewing | SNP |
Moray | Richard Lochhead | SNP |
Orkney | Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrats |
Shetland | Tavish Scott | Liberal Democrats |
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch | David Thompson | SNP |
Western Isles | Alasdair Allan | SNP |
Additional members | |
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Political party | Surname |
SNP |
John Finnie Mike MacKenzie Jean Urquhart |
Labor |
Rhoda Grant David Stewart |
Conservative |
Jamie McGrigor Mary Scanlon |
General election 2016
Results of the 2016 general election | |||||||
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Political party | be right | % | ± | Seats | ± | Add. Member | ± |
Scottish National Party | 81,600 | 39.7 | −7.8 | 6th | 0 | 1 | −2 |
Conservative party | 44,693 | 21.8 | +10.2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | +1 |
Liberal Democrats | 27,223 | 13.3 | +1.2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Labor Party | 22,894 | 11.2 | −3.3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Scottish Green | 14,781 | 7.2 | +2.1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | +1 |
UKIP | 5344 | 2.6 | +0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Non-party | 3689 | 1.8 | +1.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Christian | 3407 | 1.7 | −0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
RISE | 889 | 0.4 | +0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Solidarity | 793 | 0.4 | +0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mandates | ||
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Constituency | Elected | Political party |
Argyll and Bute | Michael Russell | SNP |
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross | Gail Ross | SNP |
Inverness and Nairn | Fergus Ewing | SNP |
Moray | Richard Lochhead | SNP |
Orkney | Liam McArthur | Liberal Democrats |
Shetland | Tavish Scott | Liberal Democrats |
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch | Kate Forbes | SNP |
Western Isles | Alasdair Allan | SNP |
Additional members | |
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Political party | Surname |
Conservative |
Douglas Ross Edward Mountain Donald Cameron |
Labor |
Rhoda Grant David Stewart |
SNP | Maree Todd |
Green | John Finnie |