Highlands and Islands

The Highlands and Islands is an area of Scotland broadly covering the Scottish Highlands, plus Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.

The Highlands and Islands region. Some Highland districts are not shown.
"North of Scotland" redirects here. For the transport company that operated services to the Orkney and Shetland Isles, see North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Steam Navigation Company.

The Highlands and Islands are sometimes defined as the area to which the Crofters' Act of 1886 applied. This area consisted of eight counties of Scotland:

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) uses a broader definition also used at Eurostat's NUTS level 2, and there has been a Highlands and Islands electoral region of the Scottish Parliament since 1999.[1]

In Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service the name refers to the local government areas (council areas) of Highland, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles. Northern, as in Northern Constabulary, is also used to refer to this area.[2]

The Highlands and Islands Partnership for Transport, established in 2006, covers most of the council areas of Argyll and Bute, Highland, Moray, Orkney and the Western Isles. Shetland is covered by the separate Shetland Partnership for Transport.[3]

Politics

Highlands and Islands is an electoral region of the Scottish Parliament. In the 2007 election, this region was the last to declare its regional votes, which were the decisive results in determining that the Scottish National Party overtook Scottish Labour to obtain the largest representation in the Scottish Parliament by one seat.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Highlands and Islands Enterprise". Highlands and Islands Enterprise. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  2. "Highlands and Islands - Police".
  3. "ZetTrans". ZetTrans. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
  4. Election analysis.


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