Dumfries Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

Dumfries Burghs
Former District of burghs constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire
Major settlements Dumfries, Annan, Lochmaben, Kirkcudbright
1708–1918
Number of members One
Replaced by Dumfriesshire
Galloway
Created from Annan
Dumfries
Kirkcudbright
Lochmaben
Sanquhar

Dumfries Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP).

Boundaries

The constituency comprised the Dumfriesshire burghs of Dumfries, Annan, Lochmaben and Sanquhar and the Kirkcudbrightshire burgh of Kirkcudbright.

It was abolished for the 1918 general election, when Dumfries, Annan, Lochmaben and Sanquar were merged into the county constituency of Dumfriesshire. Kirkcudbright was merged into Galloway.

Members of Parliament

Election Member [1] Party
1708 William Johnstone
1710 John Hutton
1713 Sir William Johnstone
1715 Alexander Fergusson
1722 William Douglas
1727 Archibald Douglas
1734 Charles Erskine
1735 William Kirkpatrick
1738 Sir Robert Laurie
1741 Lord John Johnstone
1743 Sir James Johnstone, 3rd Bt
1754 Archibald Douglas
1761 Thomas Miller
1766 James Montgomery
1768 William Douglas
1780 Sir Robert Herries
1784 Sir James Johnstone, 4th Bt
1790 Patrick Miller
1796 Alexander Hope
1800 William Johnstone Hope
1802 Charles Hope
1803 Viscount Stopford
1806 Henry Erskine
1807 Sir John Heron-Maxwell
1812 Lord William Robert Keith Douglas
1832 Matthew Sharpe Whig
1841 William Ewart
1868 Robert Jardine Liberal
1874 Ernest Noel Liberal
1886 Sir Robert Reid Liberal
1906 John William Gulland Liberal
1918 constituency abolished

Election results

General Election Dec 1910: Dumfries District[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John William Gulland 2,315
Liberal Unionist Major Pollock McCall 1,596
General Election January 1910[3]

Electorate 4,307

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John William Gulland 2,303 57.1 +2.9
Liberal Unionist John Bryce Duncan 1,730 42.9 -2.9
Majority 573 14.2 +5.8
Turnout 93.6 +6.7
Liberal hold Swing +2.9
Dumfries Burghs by-election, 1909[4]

Electorate 3,984

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John William Gulland 1,877 54.2 -5.0
Conservative John Bryce Duncan 1,585 45.8 +5.0
Majority 292 8.4 -10.0
Turnout 3,462 86.9 -3.8
Liberal hold Swing -5.0
John Gulland
General Election January 1906[5]

Electorate 3,790

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John William Gulland 2,035 59.2
Conservative Joseph J. Glover 1,402 40.8
Majority 633 18.4
Turnout 3,437 90.7
Liberal hold Swing
General Election 1900: Dumfries District[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Sir Robert Reid GCMG QC 1,847
Liberal Unionist William Murray 1,300
General Election 1895: Dumfries District[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Sir Robert Reid GCMG QC 1,785
Conservative William Murray 1,185
General Election 1892: Dumfries District[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Robert Reid 1,698
Conservative Sir Andrew Agnew, 9th Baronet 1,166
General Election 1886: Dumfries District[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Robert Reid 1,547
Conservative Miles Mattinson 1,217
General Election 1885: Dumfries District[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ernest Noel 1,546 53% -12%
Conservative Miles Mattinson 1,363 47% +14%
Turnout 2909
General Election 1880: Dumfries District[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ernest Noel 1700 65% +9%
Conservative W Gordon 872 33% -11%
Conservative T E Byrne 54 2% +2%
Turnout 2626 89.6%
General Election 1874: Dumfries District[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ernest Noel 1420 56%
Conservative Captain M C Johnstone 1123 44%
Turnout 2543
General Election 1868: Dumfries District[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Robert Jardine 967
Liberal Ernest Noel 887

Notes

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 4)
  2. ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
  3. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1885-1918
  4. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1885-1918
  5. ↑ British parliamentary election results 1885-1918
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
  7. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Election Results". The Times. 6 April 1880. p. 6. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  10. ↑ Debrett's House of Commons, 1870