Haddingtonshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Haddingtonshire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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1708–1918 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Berwick and Haddington |
Created from | Haddingtonshire |
Haddingtonshire was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1918.
Contents
Boundaries
The constituency was created in 1708 and encompassed the county of Haddingtonshire, with the exception, until 1885, of 3 towns (Haddington, Dunbar and North Berwick) which formed part of the separate constituency of Haddington Burghs. In 1918 it was amalgamated with neighbouring Berwickshire to form a new Berwick and Haddington constituency. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member [1] | Party | |
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1708 | John Cockburn | ||
1741 | Lord Charles Hay | ||
1747 | Sir Hew Dalrymple | ||
1761 | Andrew Fletcher | ||
1768 | Sir George Suttie | ||
1777 | William Hamilton Nisbet | ||
1780 | Hew Dalrymple | ||
1786 | John Hamilton | ||
1795 | Hew Dalrymple-Hamilton | ||
1800 | Charles Hope | ||
1816 | Sir James Suttie | ||
1826 | Lord John Hay | ||
1831 | James Balfour | ||
1835 | Robert Ferguson | ||
1837 | Lord Ramsay | Conservative | |
1838 by-election | Sir Thomas Buchan-Hepburn | Conservative | |
1847 | Francis Charteris (styled Lord Elcho from 1853) | Conservative | |
1883 by-election | Lord Elcho | Conservative | |
1885 | Richard Burdon Haldane | Liberal | |
1911 by-election | John Deans Hope | Liberal | |
1918 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Richard Burdon Haldane | 3,472 | 64.1 | +16.6 | |
Conservative | Lord Elcho | 1,945 | 35.9 | -16.6 | |
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Turnout | |||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Richard Burdon Haldane | 2,677 | 61.0 | -3.1 | |
Liberal Unionist | Philip Albert Myburgh | 1,714 | 39.0 | +3.1 | |
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Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Rt Hon. Richard Burdon Haldane | 2,551 | 53.1 | -7.9 | |
Liberal Unionist | The Master of Polwarth | 2,255 | 46.9 | +7.9 | |
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Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Rt Hon. Richard Burdon Haldane | 2,774 | 55.8 | +2.7 | |
Conservative | The Master of Polwarth | 2,194 | 44.2 | -2.7 | |
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Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Rt Hon. Richard Burdon Haldane | 2,668 | 53.8 | -2.0 | |
Liberal Unionist | John Kerr | 2,290 | 46.2 | +2.0 | |
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Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Rt Hon. Richard Burdon Haldane | 3,469 | 60.2 | +6.4 | |
Conservative | Gerard Craig Sellar | 2,289 | 39.8 | -6.4 | |
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Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Rt Hon. Richard Burdon Haldane | 3,771 | 61.9 | +1.7 | |
Conservative | Benjamin Hall Blyth | 3,026 | 38.1 | -1.7 | |
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Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Rt Hon. Richard Burdon Haldane | 3,845 | 54.9 | -7.0 | |
Conservative | Benjamin Hall Blyth | 3,158 | 45.1 | +7.0 | |
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Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John Deans Hope | 3,652 | 53.4 | -1.5 | |
Conservative | Benjamin Hall Blyth | 3,184 | 46.6 | +1.5 | |
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Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
General Election 1914/15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: John Deans Hope
- Unionist: Hugh Pattison Macmillan
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1708
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1918