Ross, Skye and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)

Ross, Skye and Lochaber
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Ross, Skye and Lochaber in Scotland.
Subdivisions of Scotland	Highland
Current constituency
Created	2005
Member of parliament	Ian Blackford (SNP)
Created from	Ross, Skye & Inverness West and Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Scotland

Coordinates: 57°16′26″N 5°53′46″W / 57.274°N 5.896°W / 57.274; -5.896

Ross, Skye and Lochaber is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The constituency covers a central portion of the Highland council area, and at 12,000 square kilometres (4,600 sq mi), it covers the largest area of any House of Commons constituency in Britain. Until the 2015 General Election it was represented by former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy.

The constituency was created in 2005 by merging an area from Ross, Skye and Inverness West with an area from Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber. Most of the rest of Ross, Skye and Inverness West was merged with the rest of Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber to form Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey. A small area of Ross, Skye and Inverness West was merged into Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.