Highland election factsheet

Alistair Dodds, Chief Executive of The Highland Council, is the Returning Officer for the following three parliamentary constituencies:-

• Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (8,752 sq km) -  47,257 electors, of which 5,497 are postal or postal proxy voters;
• Ross, Skye and Lochaber (12,779 sq km.) -   51,836 electors, of which 6,094 are postal or postal proxy voters;
• Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (4,953 sq km.) – 72,528 electors, of which 10,317 are postal or postal proxy voters.

He will be assisted in running the election by Senior Depute Returning Officer, Michelle Morris, as well as Depute Returning Officers, Ian Hargrave, Bob Cameron, William Gilfillan and John Bruce.

On Thursday 6 May, 2010, polling will take place between 7 am – 10 pm at a total of 294 polling stations in the three constituencies:  

• Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross –76 polling stations; 
• Ross, Skye and Lochaber –115 polling stations;
• Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey;   103 polling stations.

The counts will take place overnight 6/7 May – starting as soon after 10 pm as possible on 6 May - at the following locations:

The turn outs at the last election in May 2005 were 58.94% in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross; 64.7% in Ross, Skye and Lochaber and 63.86% in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.