The Highlands and Islands is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament, created in 1999.

The name Highlands and Islands is much older than the electoral region.

An eastern portion of the Moray area is covered by the Gordon constituency, in the North East Scotland region.

The Boundary Commission also recommended changes to the electoral regions used to elect "list" members of the Scottish Parliament.

Highlands and Islands was amended so as to contain the newly redrawn constituencies of Argyll and Bute; Caithness, Sutherland and Ross; Inverness and Nairn; Moray; Na h-Eileanan an Iar; Orkney Islands; Shetland Islands; and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.