Kiltarlity News
A merry Christmas and a Good New Year ! Kiltarlity News Published by Kiltarlity Community Council Issue No. 27 CHRISTMAS 2011 50p New constituency boundaries would place Kiltarlity with Caithness he Boundary Commission for T Scottish constituencies has pro- posed that Beauly, Kilmorack and Kil- tarlity should be part of a new West- minster constituency of ‘Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and Cromarty’ (the largest in Scotland in area) rather than be with the rest of the Aird and Loch Ness Ward in a new ‘Inverness and Skye’ constituency. To reduce the total of Westminster MPs the Highland Council area’s existing three constituencies are to be reduced to two. Strict rules for the minimum size of electorates mean that, in order to have a big enough electorate, sparsely populated places like the Highlands can end up with very large constituencies. Thus, while constituencies in large cities may be a few miles across, constituents in The lighter area is Caith- Tomnacross will need to share their fu- ness, Sutherland, Ross ture Westminster representative with the and Cromarty with the residents of Thurso. Aird area carved out of Kiltarlity Community Council joined Inverness and Skye. with Beauly Community Council to sup- port Highland Council’s counterproposal constituency as the Black Isle, Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty. for the Highland area presented at a Dingwall and a large area of west and At the Boundary Commission Hearing Hearing of the Boundary Commission in south Inverness-shire, but in a different th in November Highland Council Chief Inverness on 24 November. Among constituency from Inverness. The Executive, Alistair Dodds, said that other changes, this would see the whole Boundary Commissioners then, inex- Highland Council saw little justification of the Aird and Loch Ness Ward in the plicably, decided that this new constit- in including the 3,122 voters in Beauly Inverness and Skye constituency.
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