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Kincardineshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Subdivisions of Scotland
  
Kincardineshire

Number of members
  
1

Created from
  
Kincardineshire

Kincardineshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Replaced by
  
Kincardineshire, Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire

Kincardineshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It was represented by one Member of Parliament (MP).

Contents

The first election to a Parliament of Great Britain was in 1708. In 1707-08 members of the 1702-1707 Parliament of Scotland were co-opted to serve in the 1st Parliament of Great Britain. See Scottish representatives to the 1st Parliament of Great Britain, for further details.

The constituency represented the county of Kincardineshre.

In 1918 the area was combined with part of Western Aberdeenshire to form the Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire constituency.

Boundaries

Kincardineshire was a Scottish shire (later known as a county), which had previously been represented by two commissioners in the former Parliament of Scotland. The constituency included the whole shire, except for the Royal burgh of Inverbervie which formed part of the Aberdeen Burghs constituency.

Members of Parliament

  • 1689-1702 Hon Alexander Arbuthnot (Parliament of Scotland)
  • Constituency created (1708)
  • Constituency abolished (1918)
  • Elections in the 1890s

  • some sources describe him as a Liberal Unionist
  • 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: Arthur Cecil Murray
  • Unionist: Sidney Herbert
  • References

    Kincardineshire (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia