Ross, Cromarty and Skye (UK Parliament constituency)

Ross, Cromarty and Skye
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland Highland
19831997
Number of members One
Replaced by Ross, Skye & Inverness West
Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross
Created from Ross & Cromarty
Inverness

Ross, Cromarty and Skye was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1997. The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.

It was formed by merging the former Ross and Cromarty constituency with the Isle of Skye and the Isle of Raasay areas of the former Inverness constituency.

In 1997 most of the constituency became part of the then new Ross, Skye and Inverness West constituency. An Easter Ross area became part of the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross constituency.

Boundaries

Ross and Cromarty District, Skye and Lochalsh District, and the Inverness District electoral divisions of Aird North, Aird South, and Charleston.

Local government areas

1983 to 1996

From 1983 to 1996 the constituency covered the Highland districts of Ross and Cromarty and Skye and Lochalsh.

1996 to 1997

See also Politics of the Highland Council area

Local government districts were abolished in 1996, and the constituency became an area within the Highland unitary council area. Throughout the remaining life of the constituency Highland Council maintained area committees named for the former districts, Ross and Cromarty and Skye and Lochalsh.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember[1]Party
1983 Charles Kennedy SDP
1988 Liberal Democrats
1997 constituency abolished: see Ross, Skye and Inverness West

Elections results

Elections of the 1980s

General Election 1983: Ross, Cromarty and Skye
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Social Democratic Charles Kennedy 13,528 38.5 N/A
Conservative Hamish Hector Northey Gray 11,824 33.7 N/A
Labour Thomas Murray Elder 4,901 14.0 N/A
SNP Miss Katrine Bell Matheson 4,863 13.9 N/A
Majority 1,704 4.9 N/A
Turnout 48,401 72.6 N/A
Social Democratic win (new seat)
General Election 1987: Ross, Cromarty and Skye
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Social Democratic Charles Kennedy 18,809 49.4 +10.9
Conservative Christopher Frank Spencer Nairn 7,490 19.7 −14.0
Labour Michael Muirdon MacMillan 7,287 19.1 +5.1
SNP Robert McKay Gibson 4,492 11.8 +4.9
Majority 11,319 29.7
Turnout 38,078 72.7 +0.1
Social Democratic hold Swing +12.5

Elections of the 1990s

General Election 1992: Ross, Cromarty and Skye
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democrat Charles Kennedy 17,066 41.6 −7.8
Conservative James Whiteside Gray 9,436 23.0 +3.3
SNP Robert McKay Gibson 7,618 18.5 +6.7
Labour James Tolmie MacDonald 6,275 15.3 −3.8
Scottish Green David Malcolm Jardine 642 1.6 N/A
Majority 7,630 18.6
Turnout 41,037 73.6 +0.9
Liberal Democrat hold Swing −5.6

References

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