Highlands and Islands
The Highlands and Islands is one of the eight electoral areas for the Scottish Parliament through which 7 of the 56 Additional Members System MSPs are elected.
It covers an area including all of the Highland , Shetland , Orkney and Western Isles local authority areas, as well as most of the Argyll and Bute and Moray local authoirty areas.
It is the largest of the 8 electoral areas in terms of size, but the smallest in terms of population and electorate.
Scottish Parliament Vote, 1999
Political Party
Votes
Share of Vote (%)
% Change
List Seats Won
SNP 55,593 27.73 N/A 2
Labour 51,371 25.47 N/A 3
Lib-Dems 43,226 21.43 N/A 0
Conservatives 30,122 14.94 N/A 2
Greens 7,560 3.75 N/A 0
I Noble (Independent)
3,522 1.75 N/A 0
SLP 2,808 1.39 N/A 0
HIA 2,607 1.29 N/A 0
SSP 1,770 0.88 N/A 0
Robbie the Pict (Independent)1,151 0.57 N/A 0
J Campbell (Independent)
712 0.35 N/A 0
NLP 536 0.27 N/A 0
A Robertson (Independent)
354 0.18 N/A 0
MSPs Elected:
Scottish Parliament Vote, 2003
Political Party
Votes
Share of Vote (%)
% Change
List Seats Won
SNP 39,497 23.43 -4.30 2
Labour 37,605 22.31 -3.16 2
Lib-Dems 31,655 18.78 -2.65 0
Conservatives 26,989 16.01 +1.07 2
Greens 13,935 8.27 +4.52 1
SSP 9,000 5.34 +4.46 0
UKIP 1,947 1.16 N/A 0
Robbie the Pict (Independent)1,822 1.08 +0.51 0
CP 1,768 1.05 N/A 0
SLP 1,617 0.96 -0.43 0
Jamie McGrigor, Mary Scanlon
See also:
The Highlands and Islands is also a colloquial term used to describe the Scottish highlands along with the islands off their coast.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise, for example, exists to stimulate the economy of the whole Highland and Islands region and to support local companies in the area.
