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The management areas were abolished in 2007, and the council has now three new corporate management areas, defined as groups of new wards, also introduced in 2007. The boundaries of the corporate management areas are similar to those of
Westminster constituencies created in 2005. One corporate
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Inverness East, Nairn and
Lochaber was the most southerly of three Holyrood constituencies covering the
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The other seven constituencies of the
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Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and
Strathspey Westminster constituency
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Inverness East, Nairn and
Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)
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method of election. It was one of eight constituencies in the
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Islands (Scottish Parliament electoral region)
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Scottish
Parliament constituencies and regions 1999–2011
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Inverness East, Nairn and
Lochaber shown within the
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361:Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross area
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145:Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP)
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66:Highlands and Islands electoral region
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306:Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
292:Politics of the Highland council area
201:Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
1095:Electoral regions and constituencies
420:constituency abolished: replaced by
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169:Boundaries were redrawn before the
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1617:2011 disestablishments in Scotland
1612:Constituencies established in 1999
1261:Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber
129:Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber
31:Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber
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1518:Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
1460:West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
854:1999 Scottish Parliament election
628:2003 Scottish Parliament election
437:2007 Scottish Parliament election
375:Member of the Scottish Parliament
171:2011 Scottish Parliament election
1483:Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley
58:
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1607:1999 establishments in Scotland
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1309:Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
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302:Ross, Skye and Inverness West
213:Ross, Skye and Inverness West
121:Skye, Lochaber & Badenoch
1508:Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
1155:Hamilton North and Bellshill
365:Ross, Skye and Lochaber area
228:Argyll and Bute council area
173:, dividing the area between
68:and the region shown within
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166:for the region as a whole.
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406:Scottish National Party
345:Badenoch and Strathspey
254:Constituency boundaries
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1354:Mid Scotland and Fife
1243:Highlands and Islands
1170:Motherwell and Wishaw
546:Jamie Halcro Johnston
359:management area, the
300:. The other two were
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244:Shetland council area
232:Highland council area
158:, which elects seven
153:Highlands and Islands
116:Inverness & Nairn
1271:Na h-Eileanan an Iar
1035:Notes and references
1412:North East Scotland
1319:Edinburgh Pentlands
1228:Glasgow Shettleston
1193:Glasgow Baillieston
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149:first past the post
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43:Scottish Parliament
1233:Glasgow Springburn
1223:Glasgow Rutherglen
1188:Glasgow Anniesland
1125:Airdrie and Shotts
1101:(1999–2011)
1054:2007-09-21 at the
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236:Moray council area
160:additional members
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1106:2011–
1028:(new seat)
780:Independent
695:Rhoda Grant
264:Westminster
246:and all of
112:Replaced by
1591:Categories
1488:Clydesdale
1344:Midlothian
1339:Livingston
1334:Linlithgow
864:Candidate
638:Candidate
447:Candidate
353:Sutherland
290:See also:
189:See also:
1546:Dumbarton
1377:Kirkcaldy
986:Majority
800:Majority
561:Majority
349:Caithness
325:Inverness
92:Abolished
1632:Lochaber
1551:Eastwood
1498:Dumfries
1402:Stirling
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