Kincardineshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Kincardineshire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Kincardineshire
1708 (1708)–1918 (1918)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Kincardine & Western Aberdeenshire

Kincardineshire was a 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 1918. It was represented by one Member of Parliament (MP).

The first election to a Parliament of Great Britain was in 1708. In 1707-08 members of the 1702-1707 Parliament of Scotland were co-opted to serve in the 1st Parliament of Great Britain. See Scottish representatives to the 1st Parliament of Great Britain, for further details.

The constituency represented the county of Kincardineshre.

In 1918 the area was combined with part of Western Aberdeenshire to form the Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire constituency.

Boundaries

Kincardineshire was a Scottish shire (later known as a county), which had previously been represented by two commissioners in the former Parliament of Scotland. The constituency included the whole shire, except for the Royal burgh of Inverbervie which formed part of the Aberdeen Burghs constituency.

Members of Parliament

• 1689-1702 Hon Alexander Arbuthnot (Parliament of Scotland)

• Constituency created (1708)

Year		Member	Party
	1708	Sir David Ramsay, Bt
	1710	Sir Alexander Ramsay, Bt
	1713	James Scott
	1734	John Falconer
	1741	Sir James Carnegie, Bt
	1765	Sir Alexander Ramsay-Irvine, 6th Bt
	1768	Robert Rickart Hepburn
	1774	Lord Adam Gordon (politician)
	1788	Robert Barclay-Allardice
	1797	Sir John Wishart Belches
	1806	William Adam
	1812	George Harley Drummond
	1820	Sir Alexander Ramsay, Bt
	1826	Sir Hugh Arbuthnot
	1865	James Dyce Nicol
	1872	Sir George Balfour	Liberal
	1892	John William Crombie	Liberal
	1908	Arthur Cecil Murray	Liberal

• Constituency abolished (1918)

Elections

At the December 1910 general election Murray was returned unopposed.

General Election, January 1910: Kincardineshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Cecil Murray	3,926
	Conservative	Robert Barclay Pearson	1,891
Majority			2,035

Kincardineshire by-election, 1908: Kincardineshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Arthur Cecil Murray	3,661
	Conservative	S.J. Gammell	1,963
Majority			1,698

General Election 1906: Kincardineshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John William Crombie	3,877
	Conservative	S.J. Gammell	1,524
Majority			2,253

General Election 1900: Kincardineshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John William Crombie	3,092
	Conservative	James Mowat	1,536

General Election 1895: Kincardineshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John William Crombie	2,603
	Conservative	Hon Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis	2,040

General Election 1892: Kincardineshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John William Crombie	2,444
	Liberal Unionist	Johnston Stephen	1,376

At the General Election 1886 Sir George Balfour was returned unopposed as the Liberal candidate.

General Election 1885: Kincardineshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir George Balfour	3,160
	Conservative	David Scott Porteous	1,267

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See also

• Former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)