Ayr Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

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Ayr Burghs Burgh constituency
Created:	1708
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons

Ayr Burghs was a district of burghs 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 1950. The list of parliamentary burghs represented by the constituency changed in 1832 and again in 1918:

• 1708 to 1832: the Ayrshire burghs of Ayr and Irvine, the Argyllshire burghs of Campbeltown and Inverary and the Buteshire burgh of Rothesay
• 1832 to 1918: the Ayrshire burghs of Ayr and Irvine and the Argyllshire burghs of Cambeltown, Inverary and Oban
• 1918 to 1950: the Ayrshire burghs of Ardrossan, Ayr, Irvine, Prestwick, Saltcoats and Troon

When the Ayr Burghs constituency was abolished, in 1950, the Ayr and Prestwick burghs were merged into the county constituency of Ayr. Ardrossan and Saltcoats were merged into Bute and Northern Ayrshire and Irvine and Troon were merged into Central Ayrshire.

[edit] Member of Parliament

• 1708 James Campbell

• 1710 Charles Oliphant

• 1720 Thomas Kennedy

• 1721 Duncan Forbes

• 1722 William Steuart

• 1734 James Stuart

• 1741 George Forbes, Earl of Granard

• 1747 Charles Erskine

• 1749 Sir Henry Erskine

• 1754 James Stuart-Mackenzie

• 1761 Frederick Campbell

• 1761 Alexander Wedderburn, later Earl of Rosslyn

• 1768 James Archibald Stuart

• 1774 Sir George Macartney, later Earl Macartney

• 1776 Frederick Stuart

• 1780 Alexander Edmonstone

• 1790 Charles Stuart

• 1794 John Campbell

• 1807 John Campbell

• 1809 Duncan Campbell

• 1818 Thomas Francis Kennedy

• 1834 Lord Patrick James Herbert Crichton-Stuart

• 1852 Edward Henry John Crauford

• 1874 Sir William James Montgomery-Cuninghame

• 1880 Richard Frederick Fotheringham Campbell

• 1888 John Sinclair

• 1890 James Somervell

• 1892 William Birkmyre

• 1895 Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing

• 1904 Joseph Dobbie

• 1906 Sir George Younger, later Viscount Younger of Leckie

• 1922 Sir John Lawrence Baird, later Viscount Stonehaven

• 1925 Sir Thomas Cecil Russell Moore Conservative (Sir Thomas was elected, in 1950, as the first MP for the then new constituency of Ayr)

[edit] Election results

General Election 1935: Ayr Burghs
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Thomas Moore CBE	25,893
	Labour	A.W. Brady	13,274

General Election 1931: Ayr Burghs
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lt Col Thomas Moore CBE	28,256
	Labour	Mrs C. McNab Shaw	9,974

General Election 1906: Ayr Burghs
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Younger	3,766
	Liberal	Joseph Dobbie	3,505

[edit] See also

• List of former Parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom