Ross, Skye and Inverness West (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Ross, Skye and Inverness West County constituency |
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| Created: | 1997 |
| Abolished: | 2005 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Ross, Skye and Inverness West was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2005. The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.
The constituency was formed by merging together most of the former Ross, Cromarty and Sky constituency (that constituency minus an Easter Ross area) with part of the former Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber constituency.
When abolished 2005 much of the area of the constituency became part of the then new Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency. Most of the rest went to Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey while a tiny portion joined Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross .
There is also a Ross, Skye and Inverness West constituency of the Scottish Parliament, which was created in 1999 with the same boundaries as the former House of Commons constituency.
[edit] Council area
The constituency area was entirely within the Highland unitary council area. In terms of Highland Council committee areas it covered Ross and Cromarty minus an Easter Ross area, all of Skye and Lochalsh, and part of Inverness.
[edit] Member of Parliament
Charles Peter Kennedy, Liberal Democrat, was elected in 1997 and re-elected in 2001.
When the constituency was abolished in 2005 Charles Kennedy was elected as the MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber.
[edit] Election results
| General Election 2001: Ross, Skye and Inverness West | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrats | Charles Kennedy | 18,832 | 54.1 | +15.4 | |
| Labour | Donald Crichton | 5,880 | 16.9 | -11.8 | |
| Scottish National Party | Jean Urquhart | 4,901 | 14.1 | -5.5 | |
| Conservative | Angus Laing | 3,096 | 8.9 | -2.0 | |
| Scottish Green | Eleanor Scott | 699 | 2.0 | +1.2 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Stuart Topp | 683 | 2.0 | N/A | |
| UK Independence | Philip Anderson | 456 | 1.3 | N/A | |
| Countryside Party (UK) | James Crawford | 265 | 0.8 | N/A | |
| Majority | 12,952 | ||||
| Turnout | 61.6 | -10.2 | |||
| Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1997: Ross, Skye and Inverness West | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrats | Charles Kennedy | 15,472 | 38.7 | N/A | |
| Labour | Donnie Munro | 11,453 | 28.7 | N/A | |
| Scottish National Party | Margaret Paterson | 7,821 | 19.6 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Mary MacLeod | 4,368 | 10.9 | N/A | |
| Referendum Party | L. Durance | 535 | 1.3 | N/A | |
| Scottish Green | A. Hopkins | 306 | 0.8 | N/A | |
| Majority | 4,019 | N/A | |||
| Turnout | 71.8 | N/A | |||
| Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | N/A | |||
