Wick Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Wick Burghs Burgh constituency |
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| Created: | 1832 |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | One |
Wick Burghs, sometimes known as Northern Burghs, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
A similar constituency had been known as Tain Burghs from 1708 to 1832.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency was a district of burghs representing the parliamentary burghs of Cromarty, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick. Apart from Cromarty, these burghs had been previously components of Tain Burghs. In 1918 Dornoch and Wick were merged into Caithness and Sutherland, Kirkwall into Orkney and Shetland and Cromarty, Dingwall and Tain into Ross and Cromarty.[citation needed]
The first election in Wick Burghs was in 1832. The franchise was extended to wider groups of the population than under the old system of burgh councillors electing a burgh commissioner to participate in the election. From 1832 the votes from each burgh were added together to establish the result.
[edit] Members of Parliament
- 1832 James Loch
- 1852 Samuel Laing
- 1857 Lord John Hay
- 1859 Samuel Laing
- 1865 Samuel Laing
- 1868 George Loch
- 1872 John Pender
- 1885 John Macdonald Cameron
- 1892 Sir John Pender
- 1896 Thomas Charles Hunter Hedderwick
- 1900 Sir Arthur Bignold Conservative
- 1910 Robert Munro, later Baron Alness
[edit] Elections
| General Election 1906: Wick Burghs | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Sir Arthur Bignold | 1,362 | |||
| Liberal | W. Thomson | 1,266 | |||
| General Election 1886: Wick Burghs | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | John McDonald Cameron | 910 | |||
| Liberal Unionist | John Pender | 686 | |||
| General Election 1885: Wick Burghs | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | John McDonald Cameron | 913 | |||
| Liberal | John Pender | 868 | |||
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1997)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs.
- Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889 (for 1885 and 1886 results)
- Whitaker's Almanack, 1907 (for 1906 results)
