Ayr Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

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Ayr Burghs
Burgh constituency
Created: 1708
Abolished: 1950
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Ayr Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1950. The list of parliamentary burghs represented by the constituency changed in 1832 and again in 1918:

When the Ayr Burghs constituency was abolished, in 1950, the Ayr and Prestwick burghs were merged into the county constituency of Ayr. Ardrossan and Saltcoats were merged into Bute and Northern Ayrshire and Irvine and Troon were merged into Central Ayrshire.

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[edit] Member of Parliament

  • 1708 James Campbell
  • 1710 Charles Oliphant
  • 1720 Thomas Kennedy
  • 1721 Duncan Forbes
  • 1722 William Steuart
  • 1734 James Stuart
  • 1747 Charles Erskine
  • 1761 Frederick Campbell
  • 1776 Frederick Stuart
  • 1794 John Campbell
  • 1807 John Campbell
  • 1809 Duncan Campbell
  • 1852 Edward Henry John Crauford
  • 1880 Richard Frederick Fotheringham Campbell
  • 1888 John Sinclair
  • 1890 James Somervell
  • 1892 William Birkmyre
  • 1904 Joseph Dobbie

[edit] Election results

General Election 1935: Ayr Burghs
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir Thomas Moore CBE 25,893
Labour A.W. Brady 13,274
General Election 1931: Ayr Burghs
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Lt Col Thomas Moore CBE 28,256
Labour Mrs C. McNab Shaw 9,974
General Election 1918: Ayr Burghs [1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir George Younger, Bt 9,565
Liberal Major M. Wood 5,410
Labour Rev Campbell Stephen 4,534
General Election 1906: Ayr Burghs [2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative George Younger 3,766
Liberal Joseph Dobbie 3,505
General Election 1892: Ayr Burghs [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William Birkmyre 2,760
Conservative James Somervell 2,753
By-election 1888: Ayr Burghs [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Sinclair 2,321
Liberal Unionist Hon. Evelyn Ashley 2,268


General Election 1886: Ayr Burghs [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Richard Frederick Fothringham Campbell 2,673
Liberal Capt. John Sinclair 1,498
General Election 1885: Ayr Burghs [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Richard Frederick Fothringham Campbell 2,460
Conservative Malcolm Low 2,118

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
  2. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
  3. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
  4. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
  5. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
  6. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889

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