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Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Subdivisions of Scotland
  
Stirlingshire

Number of members
  
One

Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Replaced by
  
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire, West Stirlingshire

Stirlingshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain and later of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

For the 1918 general election it was divided into Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire and Stirling and Clackmannan Western.

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: William Allan Chapple
  • Unionist: Andrew B. King
  • References

    Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia