Voting has now finished with the polls closed in the 2019 General Election

Polls have just closed across the UK in the 2019 General Election with the results expected for Ross, Skye and Lochaber at around 4.15am.

The seat has been projected as a SNP hold for Ian Blackford while nationally the Conservatives are expected to remain in government.

Seven candidates in total entered the race for the constituency including one each from the four major parties and three from smaller political groups.

Now Conservative Gavin Ingo Berkenheger, the SNP’s Ian Blackford, Labour’s John Robert Erskine and the Liberal Democrats Craig Thomas Alexander Harrow will be anxiously awaiting the result.

Alongside them will be Donald MacLeod Boyd from the Scottish Christian Party, Kate Brownlie from the Brexit Party ticket and Richard Crewe Lucas from the Scottish Family Party – Putting Families First.

Polling stations opened at 7am and closed at 10pm this evening, the constituency’s 121 ballot boxes will then be sealed and transported to the official count at Inverness Leisure centre.

Simultaneously, votes from the two neighbouring Highland constituencies of Inverness, Nairn, Strathspey and Badenoch and Sutherland and Easter Ross will be tallied at the same venue.

The count will be overseen by Highland Council chief executive Donna Manson supported by members of her top team of 18 top staff.

The constituency is geographically the largest in the UK and has traditionally been one of the last to declare however times in recent years have been greatly reduced.

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