Haddingtonshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Haddingtonshire
County constituency
Created: 1708
Abolished: 1918
Type: House of Commons
Members: One

Haddingtonshire was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1918.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency encompassed the county of Haddingtonshire, with the exception, until 1885, of the burgh of Haddington, which formed the separate constituency of Haddington.

[edit] Members of Parliament

  • 1708 John Cockburn
  • 1741 Lord Charles Hay
  • 1747 Sir Hew Dalrymple
  • 1761 Andrew Fletcher
  • 1768 Sir George Suttie
  • 1777 William Hamilton Nisbet
  • 1780 Hew Dalrymple
  • 1786 John Hamilton
  • 1795 Hew Dalrymple-Hamilton
  • 1800 Charles Hope
  • 1816 Sir James Suttie
  • 1826 Lord John Hay
  • 1831 James Balfour
  • 1835 Robert Ferguson
  • 1837 Lord Ramsay
  • 1838 Sir Thomas Buchan-Hepburn
  • 1847 Francis Charteris (styled Lord Elcho from 1853)
  • 1883 Lord Elcho
  • 1885 Richard Haldane, Liberal
  • 1911 John Deans Hope

[edit] Election results

General Election 1906: Haddingtonshire
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane KC 3,469
Conservative G. Craig Sellar 2,289


General Election 1886: Haddingtonshire
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Richard Burdon Haldane 2,677
Liberal Unionist Philip Albert Myburgh QC 1,714
General Election 1885: Haddingtonshire
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Richard Burdon Haldane 3,472
Conservative Lord Elcho 945 (?)

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