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Revision as of 12:28, 2 October 2017
Wick Burghs | |
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Former district of Burghs constituency for the House of Commons | |
Major settlements | Cromarty, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick |
1832–1918 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Cromartyshire and Tain Burghs |
Replaced by | Caithness and Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty |
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.
Boundaries
The constituency was a district of burghs representing the parliamentary burghs of Cromarty, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick.[1] Apart from Cromarty, these burghs had been previously components of Tain Burghs.[2] 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.[3][4] 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.
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 1860s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | George Loch | 850 | |||
Liberal | Samuel Laing | 634 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent Liberal | John Macdonald Cameron | 913 | 51.3 | ||
Liberal | John Pender | 868 | 48.7 | ||
Majority | 45 | 2.6 | |||
Turnout | 88.4 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
- Cameron was nominated by the Wick Radical Workingmen's Association
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John Macdonald Cameron | 910 | 57.0 | +5.7 | |
Liberal Unionist | J D Pender | 686 | 43.0 | ||
Majority | 224 | 14.0 | +11.4 | ||
Turnout | 79.2 | −9.2 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Sir John Pender | 952 | 53.6 | ||
Liberal | John Macdonald Cameron | 825 | 46.4 | −10.6 | |
Majority | 127 | 7.2 | 21.2 | ||
Turnout | 80.5 | +1.3 | |||
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Sir John Pender | 913 | 50.7 | −2.9 | |
Liberal | Thomas Charles Hunter Hedderwick | 889 | 49.3 | +2.9 | |
Majority | 24 | 1.4 | −5.8 | ||
Turnout | 81.7 | +1.2 | |||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | -2.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Thomas Charles Hunter Hedderwick | 1,054 | 55.6 | +6.3 | |
Liberal Unionist | William Charles Smith | 842 | 44.4 | −6.3 | |
Majority | 212 | 11.2 | 12.6 | ||
Turnout | 83.3 | +1.6 | |||
Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist | Swing | +6.3 |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Bignold | 1,154 | 52.6 | +8.2 | |
Liberal | Thomas Charles Hunter Hedderwick | 1,041 | 47.4 | −8.2 | |
Majority | 113 | 5.2 | 16.4 | ||
Turnout | 79.9 | −3.4 | |||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +8.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Arthur Bignold | 1,362 | 51.8 | −0.8 | |
Liberal | William Thomson | 1,266 | 48.2 | +0.8 | |
Majority | 96 | 3.6 | −1.6 | ||
Turnout | 91.0 | +11.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.8 |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Robert Munro | 1,537 | 54.9 | +6.7 | |
Conservative | Sir Arthur Bignold | 1,262 | 45.1 | −6.7 | |
Majority | 275 | 9.8 | 13.4 | ||
Turnout | 92.7 | +1.7 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +6.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Robert Munro | 1,515 | 53.7 | −1.2 | |
Conservative | Sir Arthur Bignold | 1,304 | 46.3 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 211 | 7.4 | −2.4 | ||
Turnout | 2,819 | 92.8 | +0.1 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | -1.2 |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c7/1922_Robert_Munro.jpg/120px-1922_Robert_Munro.jpg)
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Robert Munro | 1,577 | 58.2 | +4.5 | |
Unionist | A.G. Mackenzie | 1,134 | 41.8 | −4.5 | |
Majority | 443 | 16.4 | 9.0 | ||
Turnout | 2,711 | 87.6 | −5.2 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | +4.5 |
See also
Notes and references
- ^ For the burghs included see Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 and 1885-1918.
- ^ For the burghs included in Tain Burghs (and the pre-1832 franchise) see Namier and Brooke, The House of Commons, 1754-1790.
- ^ For the boundary changes in 1918 see Craig, Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972.
- ^ Representation of the People Act 1918, Ninth Schedule - Parliamentary Counties, Scotland
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1870
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
Sources
- The House of Commons 1754-1790, by Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke (HMSO 1964)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1997)
- Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833-1987, compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1987)
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)
- Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889 (for 1885 and 1886 results)
- Whitaker's Almanack, 1907 (for 1906 results)
- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1832
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1918
- Politics of the county of Caithness
- Politics of the county of Cromarty
- Politics of Orkney
- Politics of the county of Ross
- Politics of the county of Ross and Cromarty
- Politics of the county of Sutherland