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Berwick and Haddington (UK Parliament constituency)

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Number of members
  
1

Replaced by
  
Berwick and East Lothian

Berwick and Haddington (UK Parliament constituency)

Subdivisions of Scotland
  
Berwickshire, East Lothian

Berwick and Haddington was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918, when it replaced the separate Berwickshire and Haddingtonshire constiuencies, until it was renamed Berwick and East Lothian for the 1950 general election. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.

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The constituency covered the counties of Berwickshire and East Lothian.

Elections in the 1910s

  • endorsed by the Coalition Government.
  • Elections in the 1930s

    General Election 1939/40

    Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

  • Unionist: John Helias Finnie McEwen
  • Labour: John James Robertson
  • Liberal:
  • References

    Berwick and Haddington (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia