Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 58°16′37″N 3°46′44″W / 58.277°N 3.779°W / 58.277; -3.779

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross in Scotland.
County	Highland
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrats)
Created from	Caithness & Sutherland and Ross, Cromarty & Skye
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Scotland

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross 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 Member of Parliament since 2017 has been Jamie Stone, of the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

Boundaries

1997-2005: Caithness District, Sutherland District, and the Ross and Cromarty District electoral divisions of Easter Ross, Invergordon, and Tain.

2005–present: The Highland Council wards of Alness and Ardross, Brora, Caithness Central, Caithness North East, Caithness North West, Caithness South East, Dornoch Firth, Ferindonald, Golspie and Rogart, Invergordon, Pulteneytown, Rosskeen and Saltburn, Seaboard, Sutherland Central, Sutherland North West, Tain East, Tain West, Thurso Central, Thurso East, Thurso West, Tongue and Farr, Wick, and Wick West.

The constituency was created in 1997 by merging Caithness and Sutherland with an area from Ross, Cromarty and Skye which was abolished.

In 2005 the Westminster constituency was enlarged slightly, to include a small area from Ross, Skye and Inverness West. The rest of the latter was divided between two new constituencies, Ross, Skye and Lochaber and Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.

Local government area

Since it was created in 1997 the constituency has been one of three covering the Highland council area. Since 2005 the other two have been Ross, Skye and Lochaber and Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey. From 1997 to 2005 the other constituencies of the council area were Ross, Skye and Inverness West and Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber. Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is the most northerly of the constituencies, and it now has the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency on its southern boundary.

As enlarged in 2005, the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross constituency covered 23 out of the 80 wards of the council area: all ten wards of the Caithness area committee, all six wards of the Sutherland area committee and seven (Alness and Ardross, Invergordon, Ferindonald, Rosskeen and Saltburn, Seaboard, Tain East and Tain West) out of the 18 wards of the Ross and Cromarty area committee.

Ward boundaries were redrawn again in 2007, and the management areas were abolished in favour of three new corporate management areas. The new areas consist of groups of the new wards, and boundaries are similar to those of the Westminster constituencies, as defined in 2005. Two areas, the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross area and the Ross, Skye and Lochaber area, have the names of Westminster constituencies. The name of the third area, the Inverness, Nairn, and Badenoch and Strathspey area, is very similar to that of the third constituency.

Scottish Parliament

In 1999 a Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) constituency was created with the name and boundaries of the Westminster constituency.

For representation at Holyrood the area of the Westminster constituency is divided between two slightly smaller constituencies, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross and Ross, Skye and Inverness West.

Members of Parliament

	Member^[1]	Party
1997	Robert Maclennan	Liberal Democrat
2001	John Thurso	Liberal Democrat
2005
2010
2015	Paul Monaghan	Scottish National Party
2017	Jamie Stone	Liberal Democrat

Election results

Elections of the 2010s

General Election 2017: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross^[2]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrats	Jamie Stone	11,061	35.8	+0.7
	SNP	Paul Monaghan	9,017	29.2	-17.1
	Conservative	Struan Mackie	6,990	22.6	+15.8
	Labour	Olivia Bell	3,833	12.4	+3.5
Majority			2,044	6.6	N/A
Turnout			30,901	65.9	-6.0
	Liberal Democrats gain from SNP		Swing	+8.9

General Election 2015: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Paul Monaghan	15,831	46.3	+27.1
	Liberal Democrats	John Thurso	11,987	35.1	−6.3
	Labour	John Erskine	3,061	9.0	−15.7
	Conservative	Alastair Graham	2,326	6.8	−6.2
	UKIP	Annie Murray	981	2.9	N/A
Majority			3,844	11.2	n/a
Turnout			34,186	71.9	+11.0
	SNP gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	+16.7

General Election 2010: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrats	John Thurso	11,907	41.4	−9.1
	Labour	John Mackay	7,081	24.6	+3.7
	SNP	Jean Urquhart	5,516	19.2	+5.8
	Conservative	Alastair Graham	3,744	13.0	+2.8
	Independent	Gordon Campbell	520	1.8	−1.3
Majority			4,826	16.8
Turnout			28,768	60.9	+1.5
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	−6.4

Elections of the 2000s

Note: The constituency was slightly enlarged in 2005. Therefore +/- percentages are somewhat notional.

General Election 2005: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrats	John Thurso	13,957	50.5	+11.9
	Labour	Alan Jamieson	5,789	20.9	−3.4
	SNP	Karen Shirron	3,686	13.3	−7.0
	Conservative	Angus Ross	2,835	10.2	−3.3
	Independent	Gordon Campbell	848	3.1	+2.3
	Scottish Socialist	Luke Ivory	548	2.0	−0.2
Majority			8,168	29.5
Turnout			27,663	59.1	−2.0
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+7.6

General Election 2001: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrats	John Thurso	9,041	36.4	+0.8
	Labour	Michael Meighan	6,297	25.3	−2.5
	SNP	John MacAdam	5,273	21.2	−1.8
	Conservative	Robert Rowantree	3,513	14.1	+3.3
	Scottish Socialist	Karn Mabon	544	2.2	N/A
	Independent	Gordon Campbell	199	0.8	N/A
Majority			2,744	11.1
Turnout			24,867	60.2	−9.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Elections of the 1990s

General Election 1997: Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Maclennan	10,381	35.6	N/A
	Labour	James Hendry	8,122	27.8	N/A
	SNP	Euan Harper	6,710	23.0	N/A
	Conservative	Tom Miers	3,148	10.8	N/A
	Referendum	Carolyn Ryder	369	1.3	N/A
	Scottish Green	John Martin	230	0.8	N/A
	UKIP	Martin Carr	212	0.7	N/A
Majority			2,259	7.7	N/A
Turnout			29,172	70.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Graphical representation

**1997**
	23.0%	27.8%	35.6%	10.8%
	SNP	Labour	Lib Dems	Conservative

**2001**
2.2	21.2%	25.3%	36.4%		14.1%
SS	SNP	Labour	Lib Dems		Conservative

**2005**
2.0	13.3%	20.9%	50.5%	3.1	10.2%
SS	SNP	Labour	Lib Dems	Ind	Conservative

**2010**
19.2%	24.6%	41.4%		13.0%
SNP	Labour	Lib Dems		Conservative

**2015**
46.3%	9.0%	35.1%	6.8%	2.9
SNP	Labour	Lib Dems	Conservative	UK

**2017**
29.2%	12.4%	35.8%	22.6%
SNP	Labour	Lib Dems	Conservative

Notes and references

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 1)
↑ "General Election: SNP reselects 54 MPs". www.scotsman.com.
↑ Butlin, Heather. "UK Parliamentary General Election". www.highland.gov.uk.
↑ MacNeill, Alison. "Caithness Sutherland and Easter Ross constituency - UK Parliamentary General Election result". www.highland.gov.uk.
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

Constituencies in Scotland by Holding Party (59)
Scottish National Party (35)	Aberdeen North Airdrie and Shotts Argyll and Bute Central Ayrshire Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East Dundee East Dundee West Dunfermline and West Fife East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow Edinburgh East Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh South West Falkirk Glasgow Central Glasgow East Glasgow North Glasgow North West Glasgow South Glasgow South West Glenrothes Inverclyde Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Kilmarnock and Loudoun Lanark and Hamilton East Linlithgow and East Falkirk Livingston Motherwell and Wishaw Na h-Eileanan an Iar North Ayrshire and Arran North East Fife Paisley and Renfrewshire North Paisley and Renfrewshire South Perth and North Perthshire Ross, Skye and Lochaber West Dunbartonshire
Conservative (13)	Aberdeen South Angus Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock Banff and Buchan Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Dumfries and Galloway Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale East Renfrewshire Gordon Moray Ochil and South Perthshire Stirling West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Labour (7)	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill East Lothian Edinburgh South Glasgow North East Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath Midlothian Rutherglen and Hamilton West
Liberal Democrat (4)	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross East Dunbartonshire Edinburgh West Orkney and Shetland
Scotland European constituency: Scottish National Party (2) Labour (2) Conservative (1) UKIP (1)

Scottish Westminster constituencies
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Current constituencies (2005 to present)
Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Airdrie & Shotts Angus Argyll & Bute Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock Banff & Buchan Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross Central Ayrshire Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East Dumfries & Galloway Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale Dundee East Dundee West Dunfermline & West Fife East Dunbartonshire East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh East Edinburgh North & Leith Edinburgh South Edinburgh South West Edinburgh West Falkirk Glasgow Central Glasgow East Glasgow North Glasgow North East Glasgow North West Glasgow South Glasgow South West Glenrothes Gordon Inverclyde Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey Kilmarnock & Loudoun Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath Lanark & Hamilton East Linlithgow & East Falkirk Livingston Midlothian Moray Motherwell & Wishaw Na h-Eileanan an Iar North Ayrshire & Arran North East Fife Ochil & South Perthshire Orkney & Shetland Paisley & Renfrewshire North Paisley & Renfrewshire South Perth & North Perthshire Ross, Skye & Lochaber Rutherglen & Hamilton West Stirling West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine West Dunbartonshire

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