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((Short description|Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1983–1997))
((Use dmy dates|date=April 2022))
((More citations needed|date=December 2007))
((Infobox UK constituency main
 |name        = Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber 
 |parliament  = uk
 |map1        = 
 |map2        = 
 |map_entity  = 
 |map_year    = 
 |year        = 1983
 |abolished   = 1997
 |type        = County
 |elects_howmany = One
 |previous    = [[Argyll (UK Parliament constituency)|Argyll]], [[Inverness (UK Parliament constituency)|Inverness]] and [[Moray and Nairn (UK Parliament constituency)|Moray and Nairn]]
 |next        = [[Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)|Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber]] and [[Ross, Skye and Inverness West (UK Parliament constituency)|Ross, Skye & Inverness West]]
 |region      = Scotland
 |county      = [[Highland (council area)|Highland]]
))
'''Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber''' was a [[county constituency]] of the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] from 1983 to 1997. It elected one [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) by the [[first-past-the-post]] system of election.

==History==
Throughout the 1983 to 1997 period, this marginal constituency was represented by a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]], and then [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]], MP: [[Russell Johnston, Baron Russell-Johnston|Sir David Russell Johnston]] (later [[Russell Johnston, Baron Russell-Johnston|Baron Russell-Johnston]]), who had been, previously, MP for the [[Inverness (UK Parliament constituency)|Inverness]] constituency.

== Boundaries ==

The constituency was created to cover four of the eight districts of [[Highland (council area)|Highland]] [[Regions and districts of Scotland|local government region]]: the [[Inverness district (Highland)|Inverness district]], the [[Nairn district (Highland)|Nairn district]], the [[Lochaber district (Highland)|Lochaber district]] and the [[Badenoch and Strathspey district (Highland)|Badenoch and Strathspey district]]. The region and districts had been created in 1975, under the [[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973]], when the [[Counties of Scotland|county]] and [[burgh]] system of local government was abolished. The other districts of the region were covered by the [[Ross, Cromarty and Skye (UK Parliament constituency)|Ross, Cromarty and Skye]] constituency and the [[Caithness and Sutherland (UK Parliament constituency)|Caithness and Sutherland]] constituency.

In 1996, under the [[Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994]], the districts were abolished and the region became a [[unitary council area]].

In 1997, constituency boundaries were redrawn to divide the Highland area between three new constituencies: [[Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)|Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber]], [[Ross, Skye and Inverness West (UK Parliament constituency)|Ross, Skye and Inverness West]] and [[Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (UK Parliament constituency)|Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross]]. New constituency boundaries divided the areas of some of the former districts.

== Members of Parliament ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="2"|Event!!Member<ref>((Rayment-hc|i|date=March 2012))</ref>!!Party
|-
|style="background-color: ((party color|Liberal Party (UK)))" |
| [[1983 United Kingdom general election|1983]]
| rowspan="2"| [[Russell Johnston, Baron Russell-Johnston|Russell Johnston]]
| [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]  
|-
|style="background-color: ((party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)))" |
| 1988
| [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]]  
|-
|
|[[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997]]
|colspan="2"| ''constituency abolished: see [[Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)|Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber]] <br />and [[Ross, Skye and Inverness West (UK Parliament constituency)|Ross, Skye & Inverness West]]''
|}

== Election results ==
[[File:Inverness election history.png|center|thumb|765x765px|Inverness election history]]

===Elections in the 1980s===
((Election box begin | title=[[1983 United Kingdom general election|General election 1983]]: Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber<ref name=electoralcalculus1983>((cite web|title=Election Data 1983|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1983.txt|publisher=[[Electoral Calculus]]|access-date=28 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015054231/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1983.txt|archive-date=15 October 2011|url-status=dead))</ref>
))
((Election box winning candidate with party link|
  |party      = Liberal Party (UK)
  |candidate  = [[Russell Johnston]]
  |votes      = 20,671
  |percentage = 46.0
  |change     = +17.2
))
((Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Conservative Party (UK)
  |candidate  = [[David Maclean]]
  |votes      = 13,373
  |percentage = 29.8
  |change     = +3.3
))
((Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Labour Party (UK)
  |candidate  = Duncan McMillan
  |votes      = 6,448
  |percentage = 14.4
  |change     = -6.5
))
((Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Scottish National Party
  |candidate  = Hamish William Vernal
  |votes      = 4,395
  |percentage = 9.8
  |change     = -13.8
))
((Election box majority|
|votes  = 7,298
|percentage  = 16.2
|change  = 
))
((Election box turnout|
|votes  = 44,887
|percentage  = 70.5
|change  = 
))
((Election box new seat win|
|winner     = Liberal Party (UK)
))
((election box end))

((Election box begin | title=[[1987 United Kingdom general election|General election 1987]]: Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber<ref name=electoralcalculus1987>((cite web|title=Election Data 1987|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1987.txt|publisher=[[Electoral Calculus]]|access-date=28 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015054243/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1987.txt|archive-date=15 October 2011|url-status=dead))</ref>
))
((Election box winning candidate with party link|
  |party      = Liberal Party (UK)
  |candidate  = [[Russell Johnston]]
  |votes      = 17,422
  |percentage = 36.8
  |change     = −9.2
))
((Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Labour Party (UK)
  |candidate  = [[David Stewart (Scottish politician)|David John Stewart]]
  |votes      = 11,991
  |percentage = 25.4
  |change     = +11.0
))
((Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Conservative Party (UK)
  |candidate  = [[Tessa Keswick|Annabel Keswick]]
  |votes      = 10,901
  |percentage = 23.0
  |change     = −6.8
))
((Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Scottish National Party
  |candidate  = Niall Johnson
  |votes      = 7,001
  |percentage = 14.8
  |change     = +5.0
))
((Election box majority|
|votes  = 5,431
|percentage  = 11.4
|change  = -4.8
))
((Election box turnout|
|votes  = 47,315
|percentage  = 70.9
|change  = +0.4
))
((Election box hold with party link|
|winner     = Liberal Party (UK)
|swing      = −10.1
))
((election box end))

===Elections in the 1990s===
In the 1992 election, the four major parties were separated by only 3.41%, the closest four-way result in an election to the UK Parliament since 1918.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/34way.html|title=Closest Three- and Four-Way Marginals since 1918|access-date=May 28, 2009))</ref>
((Election box begin |
|title=[[1992 United Kingdom general election|General election 1992]]: Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber<ref name=electoralcalculus1992>((cite web|title=Election Data 1992|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1992ob.txt|publisher=[[Electoral Calculus]]|access-date=28 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015054418/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1992ob.txt|archive-date=15 October 2011|url-status=dead))</ref><ref>((cite web|
url=http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm|title=Politics Resources|date=9 April 1992|work=Election 1992|publisher=Politics Resources|access-date=6 Dec 2010))</ref>
))
((Election box winning candidate with party link|
|party      = Liberal Democrats (UK)
|candidate  = [[Russell Johnston]]
|votes  = 13,258
|percentage  = 26.0
|change  = −10.8
))
((Election box candidate with party link|
|party      = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate  = [[David Stewart (Scottish politician)|David Stewart]]
|votes  = 12,800
|percentage  = 25.1
|change  = −0.3
))
((Election box candidate with party link|
  |party      = Scottish National Party
  |candidate  = [[Fergus Ewing]]
  |votes      = 12,562
  |percentage = 24.7
  |change     = +9.9
))
((Election box candidate with party link|
|party      = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate  = John Scott
|votes  = 11,517
|percentage  = 22.6
|change  = −0.4
))
((Election box candidate with party link|
|party      = Scottish Green Party
|candidate  = John Martin
|votes  = 766
|percentage  = 1.5
|change  = ''New''
))
((Election box majority|
|votes  = 458
|percentage  = 0.9
|change  = −10.5
))
((Election box turnout|
|votes  = 50,903
|percentage  = 73.6
|change  = +2.7
))
((Election box hold with party link|
|winner     = Liberal Democrats (UK)
|swing      = −5.3
))
((Election box end))

== References ==
((Reflist))

((DEFAULTSORT:Inverness, Nairn And Lochaber (Uk Parliament Constituency)))
[[Category:Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)]]
[[Category:Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1983]]
[[Category:Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1997]]
[[Category:Highland constituencies, UK Parliament (historic)]]

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