Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (UK Parliament constituency)
58°16′37″N 3°46′44″W / 58.277°N 3.779°W
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | |
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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 | Paul Monaghan (SNP) |
Created from | Caithness & Sutherland and Ross, Cromarty & Skye |
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 2015 has been Paul Monaghan, of the Scottish National Party.
Boundaries
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
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | | 1997 | Robert Maclennan | Liberal Democrat |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | | 2001 | John Thurso | Liberal Democrat |
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | | 2015 | Paul Monaghan | Scottish National Party |
Election results
Elections of the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Paul Monaghan [5] | 15,831 | 46.3 | +27.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Thurso [6] | 11,987 | 35.1 | −6.3 | |
Labour | John Erskine [7] | 3,061 | 9.0 | −15.7 | |
Conservative | Alastair Graham[citation needed] | 2,326 | 6.8 | −6.2 | |
UKIP | Annie Murray [8] | 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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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) |
Notes and references
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 1)
- ^ election result http://www.highland.gov.uk/news/article/8585/caithness_sutherland_and_easter_ross_constituency_-_uk_parliamentary_general_election_result 6Aug15
- ^ total electorate 47,558 email from Highland Council 7Aug15
- ^ Nominations for UK Parliamentary Election for the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Constituency, The Highland Council
- ^ "SNP select candidate to fight Easter Ross seat at Westminster". Ross-shire Journal. 30 January 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
- ^ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/caithness-sutherland-easter-ross-2015.html
- ^ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/caithness-sutherland-easter-ross-2015.html
- ^ http://www.northern-times.co.uk/News/UKIPs-leaders-family-links-to-Sutherland-01102013.htm
- ^ Nominations for UK Parliamentary Election for the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Constituency, The Highland Council