Subdivisions of Scotland Clackmannanshire Created from Clackmannanshire | Number of members one | |
Replaced by Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire | ||
Clackmannanshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 until 1800, and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832.
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The constituency
Clackmannanshire was Scotland's smallest county, and was paired as an alternating constituency with neighbouring Kinross-shire. The freeholders of Clackmannanshire elected one Member of Parliament to one Parliament, while those of Kinross-shire elected a Member to the next.
Abolition
The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832 abolished the alternating constituencies. Clackmannanshire was merged with Kinross-shire into the single constituency of Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire, electing one Member between them to each Parliament.
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Clackmannanshire (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA