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Roxburghshire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of ScotlandRoxburghshire
1708–1918
SeatsOne
Created fromRoxburghshire
Replaced byRoxburgh and Selkirk

Roxburghshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (also at Westminster) from 1801 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

Boundaries

The name relates the constituency to the county of Roxburgh.

When the constituency was abolished in 1918, the Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency was created, covering the counties of Roxburgh and Selkirk

Member of Parliament

Election Member[1] Party
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1708 Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Bt
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1715 William Douglas
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1722 Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Bt
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1726 Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Bt
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1727 William Douglas
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1734 John Rutherfurd
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1742 William Douglas
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1747 Walter Scott
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1765 Sir Gilbert Elliot
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1777 Sir Gilbert Elliot
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1784 Sir George Douglas
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1806 John Rutherford
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1812 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1814 Sir Alexander Don
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1826 Henry Francis Hepburne-Scott
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1832 George Elliot
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1835 Lord John Douglas-Montagu-Scott
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1837 John Edmund Elliot
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1841 Francis Scott
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1847 John Edmund Elliot
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1859 Sir William Scott, Bt
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1870 The Marquess of Bowmont
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1874 Sir George Scott-Douglas
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1880 Arthur Elliot Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" | 1886 Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1892 Mark Francis Napier Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1895 The Earl of Dalkeith Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1906 John Jardine Liberal
1918 constituency abolished

Election results

General Election 1835: Roxburghshire [2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Lord John Scott 757
Liberal Captain Elliot 681
General Election 1885: Roxburghshire [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Hon Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot 3,419
Conservative Charles Barrington Balfour 1,945
General Election 1886: Roxburghshire [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Hon Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot 2,570
Liberal Hon Mark Francis Napier 2,142
General Election 1892: Roxburghshire [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Hon Mark Francis Napier 2,672
Liberal Unionist Hon Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot 2,514
General Election 1895: Roxburghshire [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Earl of Dalkeith 2,929
Liberal Hon Mark Francis Napier 2,368
General Election 1900: Roxburghshire [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Earl of Dalkeith 2,682
Liberal John Jardine 2,323
General Election 1906: Roxburghshire [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Jardine 2,829 52.9
Conservative Sir Richard John Waldie-Griffith 2,514 47.1
General Election Jan 1910: Roxburghshire [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Jardine 2,943
Conservative Lord Henry Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott 2,626
General Election Dec 1910: Roxburghshire [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Jardine 2,908
Conservative Neil James Kennedy Cochran-Patrick 2,704

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)
  2. ^ The Spectator, 13 January 1835
  3. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
  4. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
  5. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1892
  6. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
  7. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
  8. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
  9. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
  10. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
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