Perth (UK Parliament constituency)

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Perth Burgh constituency
Created:	1708
Abolished:	2005
Type:	House of Commons

Perth 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 until 1832. The constituency comprised the burghs of Cupar, Dundee, Forfar, Perth and St Andrews. In the reforms of 1832, Dundee and Perth were established as separate burgh constituencies, with the remaining burghs being transferred to the then new St Andrews district of burghs.

In 1918 the constituency was enlarged to include the area of Perthshire Eastern and areas from Perthshire Western and Clackmannan and Kinross. The name was changed to Perth and East Perthshire in 1950, and again to Perth and Kinross in 1983, before reverting to Perth in 1997. Since 2005, the area has been covered by the Ochil and South Perthshire and Perth and North Perthshire constituencies.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results

[edit] Boundaries

As established in 1918, the constituency consisted of-

"So much of the county of Perth as is contained within the Eastern or Blairgowrie and Perth County Districts, inclusive of the city of Perth and all burghs situated within the said county districts."

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Perth Burghs (1708-1832)

1708 Joseph Austin

1710 George Yeaman

1715 Patrick Haldane

1722 William Erskine

1727 John Drummond

1743 Thomas Leslie

1761 George Dempster

1768 William Johnstone Pulteney

1769 George Dempster

1790 George Murray

1796 David Scott

1805 Sir David Wedderburn

1818 Archibald Campbell

1820 Hugh Lindsay

1830 John Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, later Baron Wharncliffe

1831 Francis Jeffrey

1831 William Ogilvy

1831 Francis Jeffrey

[edit] Perth (1832-1950)

1832 Laurence Oliphant

1837 Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, later Baron Kinnaird

1839 David Greig

1841 Fox Maule, later Earl of Dalhousie

1852 Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, later Baron Kinnaird

1878 Charles Stuart Parker

1892 William Whitelaw

1895 Robert Wallace

1907 Sir Robert Pullar

1910 Alexander Frederick Whyte Liberal

Boundaries for 1918 to 1950 were as for Perth and East Perthshire 1950 to 1983

1918 William Young

1922 Archibald Noel Skelton Unionist

1923 Robert Macgregor Mitchell

1924 Archibald Noel Skelton Unionist

1931 Mungo David Malcolm Murray, Baron Scone, later Earl of Mansfield

1935 Francis Norie-Miller Liberal

1935 Sir Thomas Hunter

1945 Alan Gomme Gomme-Duncan

[edit] Perth and East Perthshire (1950-1983)

1950 Sir Alan Gomme Gomme-Duncan

1959 Ian MacArthur

1974 George Douglas Crawford

1979 Bill Walker, Conservative and Unionist

[edit] Election results

General Election 1906: Perth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Wallace KC	2,875	60.6
	Conservative	Samuel Chapman	1,867	39.4

General Election 1931: Perth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lord Scone	19,254
	Liberal	Francis Norie-Miller	15,396
	Labour	Mrs H. Gault	3,705

General Election 2001: Perth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Scottish National Party	Annabelle Ewing	11,237	29.7	−6.7
	Conservative	Liz Smith	11,189	29.6	+0.3
	Labour	Marion Dingwall	9,638	25.5	+0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Vicki Harris	4,853	12.8	+4.8
	Scottish Socialist	Frank Byrne	899	2.4	N/A
Majority			48	0.1
Turnout			37,816	61.5	−12.4
	Scottish National Party hold		Swing