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Created from Dumfries Burghs, Kirkcudbright Stewartry and Wigtownshire Replaced by Dumfries Burghs, Kirkcudbright Stewartry, Wigtownshire, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | ||
Galloway was a county constituency in the Galloway area of Scotland. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system.
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It was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituency.
Elections in the 1910s
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;
References
Galloway (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA