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  Type Burgh
  Year 1708
  Abolition 2005


Inverness Burghs was a District Of Burghs Constituency represented in the House Of Commons of the Parliament Of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament Of The United Kingdom from 1801. The constituency represented the Parliamentary Burgh s of Inverness , Fortrose , Forres and Nairn .

In 1918 the constituency was dissolved, with the burgh of Inverness and the mainland and Inner Hebridean areas of Inverness-shire being combined to form the new constituency of Inverness, Forres and Nairn being merged into Moray And Nairn and Fortrose being merged into to Ross And Cromarty .

The constituency of Inverness was altered to Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber in 1983, incorporating part of Moray and Nairn. The name was changed again in 1997 to '''Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber'''. The latest version is Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch And Strathspey .

There is also an Inverness East, Nairn And Lochaber Constituency Of The Scottish Parliament , which was created in 1999 with the same boundaries as the House of Commons constituency of that name.


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Inverness Burghs (1708-1918)


































Inverness (1918-1983)








Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber (1983-1997)




Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber (1997-2005)




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