South Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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South Ayrshire
County constituency
Created: 1868
Abolished: 1983
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

South Ayrshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1883, when it was abolished. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first past the post voting system.

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[edit] Boundaries

The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 provided that the new South Ayrshire constituency was to consist of the District of Kyle and Carrick, consisting of the parishes of Auchinleck, Ayr, Ballantrae, Barr, Colmonell, Coylton, Craigie, Dailly, Dalmellington, Dalrymple, Dundonald, Galston, Girvan, Kirkmichael, Kirkoswald, Mauchline, Maybole, Monkton and Prestwick, Muirkirk, New Cumnock, Newton-on-Ayr, Ochiltree, Old Cumnock, Riccarton, St Quivox, Sorn, Stair, Straiton, Symington and Tarbolton.

From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The county districts of Ayr and Carrick, inclusive of all burghs situated therein except in so far as included in the Ayr District of Burghs."

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1868 Sir David Wedderburn
1874 Claud Alexander
1885 Eugene Wason
1886 Greville Richard Vernon
1892 Eugene Wason
1895 Sir William Arrol Liberal
1906 Sir William Phipson Beale KC Liberal
1918 James Brown Labour
1931 James Orr MacAndrew Conservative
1935 James Brown Labour
1939 Alexander Sloan Labour
1946 Emrys Hughes Labour
1970 James Sillars Labour
1976 Scottish Labour Party
1979 George Foulkes Labour Co-operative
1979 constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

General Election 1931: Ayrshire South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Capt James Orr MacAndrew 16,657
Labour Rt Hon James Brown OBE 13,733
General Election 1906: Ayrshire South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William Phipson Beale KC 7,853
Conservative James J. Bell 6,611

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