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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 1910s
See also
Aberdeen North
Aberdeen South
Airdrie & Shotts
Angus
Argyll & Bute
Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock
Banff & Buchan
Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk
Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross
Central Ayrshire
Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East
Dumfries & Galloway
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale
Dundee East
Dundee West
Dunfermline & West Fife
East Dunbartonshire
East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow
East Lothian
East Renfrewshire
Edinburgh East
Edinburgh North & Leith
Edinburgh South
Edinburgh South West
Edinburgh West
Falkirk
Glasgow Central
Glasgow East
Glasgow North
Glasgow North East
Glasgow North West
Glasgow South
Glasgow South West
Glenrothes
Gordon
Inverclyde
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey
Kilmarnock & Loudoun
Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath
Lanark & Hamilton East
Linlithgow & East Falkirk
Livingston
Midlothian
Moray
Motherwell & Wishaw
Na h-Eileanan an Iar
North Ayrshire & Arran
North East Fife
Ochil & South Perthshire
Orkney & Shetland
Paisley & Renfrewshire North
Paisley & Renfrewshire South
Perth & North Perthshire
Ross, Skye & Lochaber
Rutherglen & Hamilton West
Stirling
West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine
West Dunbartonshire
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, 1916
^ British parliamentary election results 1885-1918, Craig, F. W. S. (1974)
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
^ 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, 1893
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1870
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)