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Wick Burghs
Former district of Burghs constituency
for the House of Commons
Major settlementsCromarty, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick
1832–1918
SeatsOne
Created fromCromartyshire and Tain Burghs
Replaced byCaithness 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

Election Member[5] Party
1832 constituency created
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1832 James Loch Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1852 Samuel Laing Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1857 Lord John Hay Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1859 Samuel Laing Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1860 by-election William Coutts Keppel, Viscount Bury Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1865 Samuel Laing Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1868 George Loch Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1872 by-election John Pender Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1885 John Macdonald Cameron Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" | 1892 Sir John Pender Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1896 by-election Thomas Charles Hunter Hedderwick Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1900 Sir Arthur Bignold Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1910 Robert Munro Liberal
1918 constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1860s

General Election 1868: Wick Burghs[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal George Loch 850
Liberal Samuel Laing 634
Majority
Turnout
Liberal hold Swing

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Wick Burghs[7][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
General Election 1886: Wick Burghs[9][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

General Election 1892: Wick Burghs[10][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
General Election 1895: Wick Burghs[8][11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
Wick Burghs by-election, 1896[12][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

General Election 1900: Wick Burghs[8][13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
General Election 1906: Wick Burghs[14][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

General Election Jan 1910: Wick Burghs[15][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
General Election December 1910: Wick Burghs[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
Munro
Wick District by-election, 1913[16][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

  1. ^ For the burghs included see Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 and 1885-1918.
  2. ^ For the burghs included in Tain Burghs (and the pre-1832 franchise) see Namier and Brooke, The House of Commons, 1754-1790.
  3. ^ For the boundary changes in 1918 see Craig, Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972.
  4. ^ Representation of the People Act 1918, Ninth Schedule - Parliamentary Counties, Scotland
  5. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)
  6. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1870
  7. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
  9. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
  10. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
  11. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
  12. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
  13. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
  14. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
  15. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
  16. ^ 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)
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