Election Results
| General Election 2010: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Danny Alexander | 19,172 | 40.7 | +0.4 | |
| Labour | Mike Robb | 10,407 | 22.1 | -8.8 | |
| SNP | John Finnie | 8,803 | 18.7 | +5.2 | |
| Conservative | Jim Ferguson | 6,278 | 13.3 | +3.0 | |
| Scottish Christian | Donald Boyd | 835 | 1.8 | N/A | |
| Scottish Green | Donnie MacLeod | 789 | 1.7 | -0.7 | |
| UKIP | Ross Durance | 574 | 1.2 | N/A | |
| Solidarity (Trade Unionist & Socialist) | George MacDonald | 135 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Joy of Talk | Kit Fraser | 93 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 8,765 | 18.6 | |||
| Turnout | 47,086 | 64.9 | +1.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | 4.6% | |||
- Note: The constituency was new in 2005 and +/- percentages are notional.
| General Election 2005: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Danny Alexander | 17,830 | 40.3 | +10.8 | |
| Labour | David Stewart | 13,682 | 30.9 | -1.3 | |
| SNP | David Thompson | 5,992 | 13.5 | -9.5 | |
| Conservative | Robert Rowantree | 4,579 | 10.3 | -2.0 | |
| Scottish Green | Donnie MacLeod | 1,065 | 2.4 | N/A | |
| Publican Party | Donald Lawson | 678 | 1.5 | N/A | |
| Scottish Socialist | George MacDonald | 429 | 1.0 | -1 | |
| Majority | 4,148 | 9.4 | |||
| Turnout | 44,255 | 63.6 | +0.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrat gain from Labour | Swing | +6.0 | |||
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