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Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey was a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. As with all seats since 1950 it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The seat covered a broad south-eastern portion of the Highland council area. It had four locations in its name, the most ...
Inverness, Nairn and Badenoch and Strathspey, one of three corporate management areas of the Highland Council, Scotland, created in 2005 Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey .
Badenoch and Strathspey District Council was a district-level authority, with regional-level functions provided by the Highland Regional Council, based in Inverness. [ 1 ] The districts and regions created in 1975 were abolished in 1996, under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 and replaced with single-tier council areas .
The corporate management areas were named as (1) Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, (2) Inverness, Nairn, and Badenoch and Strathspey, and (3) Ross, Skye and Lochaber. Two of these names are also those of Westminster Parliament ( House of Commons ) constituencies , and one name is very similar to the name of another Westminster constituency ...
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.
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire (first established in 2024 and replacing the previous Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, which existed between 2005 and 2019) currently represented by Angus MacDonald of the Scottish Liberal Democrats [112] One constituency of the Scottish Parliament , created in 2011:
Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2005 represented by Labour's David Stewart. Nairn was part of the constituency of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey from 2005 to 2024, represented first by Danny Alexander and then Drew Hendry .
Highland Regional Council was the upper-tier authority, and the region also contained eight districts, called Badenoch and Strathspey, Caithness, Inverness, Lochaber, Nairn, Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh and Sutherland. [1]