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