Scottish Elections: SNP keep constituency seats in Highland and Moray

Author: Liam RossPublished 7th May 2021
Last updated 7th May 2021

The SNP have kept their seats across the four Scottish Parliament constituencies in Highland and Moray.

Caithness, Sutherland and Ross was the first seat to be declared out of the four areas, with Maree Todd being elected.

She held off a strong challenge from Lib Dems candidate Molly Nolan, winning by just 2591 votes.

Elsewhere, Kate Forbes has been re-elected for Skye, Lochaber & Badenoch with 24,192 votes and Fergus Ewing has also been re-elected to the Inverness & Nairn constituency with 21,793 votes.

In Moray, Richard Lochhead kept his seat and delivered his winner's speech remotely as he was self-isolating due to a family member waiting for the results of a COVID-19 test.

The declaration for the regional Highlands and Islands list, which includes Scottish Conservative Leader Douglas Ross, will be made in Inverness tomorrow.

The results from the four constituencies are as follows:

Caithness, Sutherland and Ross - SNP HOLD

Maree Todd - SNP - 15,889 votes

Molly Nolan - Scottish Lib Dems - 13,298 votes

Struan Mackie - Scottish Conservatives - 5,170 votes

Marion Donaldson - Scottish Labour - 2,016 votes

Tina McCaffery - Freedom Alliance - 289 votes

Harry Christian - Scottish Libertarian - 222 votes

Inverness & Nairn - SNP HOLD

Fergus Ewing - SNP - 21, 793 votes

Edward Mountain - Scottish Conservatives - 12,679 votes

Rhoda Grant - Scottish Labour - 5370 votes

David Gregg - Scottish Lib Dems - 2892 votes

Arianne Burgess - Scottish Greens - 2636 votes

Andrew MacDonald - Restore Scotland - 361 votes

Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch - SNP HOLD

Kate Forbes - SNP - 24,192 votes

Jamie Halcro Johnston - Scottish Conservatives - 8331 votes

Denis Rixson - Scottish Lib Dems - 6778 votes

John Erskine - Scottish Labour - 3855 votes

Moray - SNP HOLD

Richard Lochhead - SNP - 19,987 votes

Tim Eagle - Scottish Conservatives - 16,823 votes

Jo Kirby - Scottish Labour - 2972 votes

Sheila Ewan Ritchie - Scottish Lib Dems - 1,165 votes

Robert Stephenson - UKIP - 188 votes