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Dumfries Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

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Number of members
  
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Dumfries Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

Subdivisions of Scotland
  
Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire

Created from
  
Annan Dumfries Kirkcudbright Lochmaben Sanquhar

Major settlements
  
Dumfries, Annan, Lochmaben, Kirkcudbright

Replaced by
  
Dumfries, Lochmaben, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, Galloway

Dumfries Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP).

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Boundaries

The constituency comprised the Dumfriesshire burghs of Dumfries, Annan, Lochmaben and Sanquhar and the Kirkcudbrightshire burgh of Kirkcudbright.

It was abolished for the 1918 general election, when Dumfries, Annan, Lochmaben and Sanquar were merged into the county constituency of Dumfriesshire. Kirkcudbright was merged into Galloway.

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

  • Liberal: John William Gulland
  • Unionist: Sir Archibald Mclnnes Shaw
  • References

    Dumfries Burghs (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia