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Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber County constituency |
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| Created: | 1997 |
| Abolished: | 2005 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
There is also an Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber constituency of the Scottish Parliament, which was created with the same boundaries in 1999.
The constituency was created as one of three to cover the Highland council area. The other two were Ross, Skye and Inverness West and 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 region. The Highland area had been covered, previously, by the three constituencies of Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber, Ross, Cromarty and Skye and 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, Ross, Skye and Lochaber and Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.
Throughout the 1997 to 2005 period, the constituency was represented by a Labour Party MP: David John Stewart.
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