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Edinburgh North (UK Parliament constituency)

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Major settlements
  
Edinburgh

Number of members
  
1

Major settlement
  
Edinburgh

Edinburgh North (UK Parliament constituency)

Replaced by
  
Edinburgh Central, Edinburgh Leith, Edinburgh East, Edinburgh West

Edinburgh North was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.

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Boundaries

In 1918 the constituency consisted of the "Broughton, Calton, St. Andrew's and St. Stephen's Municipal Wards of Edinburgh."

Elections in the 1910s

  • endorsed by Coalition Government
  • Elections in the 1940s

    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 from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

  • Unionist: Alexander Erskine-Hill
  • Labour: Gerald Walker Crawford
  • References

    Edinburgh North (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia