The seat has been held since 2006 by Richard Lochhead of the Scottish National Party.

Lochhead won the seat in a by-election held following death of the previous incumbent, Margaret Ewing of the SNP, from breast cancer.

The Moray constituency is part of the Highlands and Islands electoral region; the other seven constituencies are Argyll and Bute, Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Inverness and Nairn, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Orkney, Shetland and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.

[2] The Holyrood constituency covers most of the Moray council area; the rest of the council area is covered by the Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency, which is in the North East Scotland electoral region.

The Moray Westminster constituency covered the whole of the council area from 2005 until 2024; it was succeeded by Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey, which includes most of the council area (but less than the Scottish Parliament constituency), and Aberdeenshire North and Moray East, which includes some north-eastern parts (Keith and Cullen, Buckie, and part of Fochabers Lhanbryde).