Elginshire and Nairnshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Elginshire and Nairnshire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland Elginshire and Nairnshire
1832–1918
Number of members One
Replaced by Moray & Nairn
Created from Elginshire
Nairnshire

Elginshire and Nairnshire was a county constituency in Scotland. From 1832 to 1918, it returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

Boundaries

The constituency was created in 1832 by the Scottish Reform Act 1832 by a merger of two former constituencies: Elginshire and Nairnshire. It extended to the counties of Elginshire and Nairnshire, with the exception of the burghs of Elgin, Nairn and Forres which were instead part of Inverness Burghs and Elgin Burghs.

It was replaced in 1918 by the new Moray and Nairn constituency, which included all of Elginshire and Nairnshire, including the burghs of Elgin, Nairn and Forres.

Members of Parliament

Election Member [1] Party
1832 Francis William Grant Tory
1834 Conservative
1840 by-election Charles Lennox Cumming Bruce Conservative
1868 James Ogilvy Grant Conservative
1874 Alexander William George Duff Liberal
1879 by-election Sir George Macpherson-Grant Liberal
1886 Charles Henry Anderson Liberal
1889 by-election John Seymour Keay Liberal
1895 John Edward Gordon Conservative
1906 Archibald Williamson Liberal
1918 constituency abolished

Elections

General Election 1868: James Ogilvie Grant returned unopposed.[2]

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Elginshire and Nairnshire [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal George Macpherson-Grant 1,612
Conservative Hugh Fife Ashley Brodie 1,556 33.8
Independent Liberal Charles Henry Anderson 1,435 31.2
Majority 56 1.2
Turnout
Liberal hold Swing
General Election 1886: Elginshire and Nairnshire [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Charles Henry Anderson 1,991 51.5
Liberal Unionist George Macpherson-Grant 1,872 48.5
Majority 119 3.0
Turnout 66.6
Liberal hold Swing
Elginshire and Nairnshire by-election, 1889 [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal John Seymour Keay 2,573 55.7
Liberal Unionist Charles Bowman Logan 2,044 44.3
Majority 529 11.4
Turnout 79.0
Liberal hold Swing

Elections in the 1890s

Sir William Gull
General Election 1892: Elginshire and Nairnshire [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal John Seymour Keay 2,533 56.1 +0.4
Liberal Unionist Cameron Gull 1,978 43.9 -0.4
Majority 545 12.2 +0.8
Turnout 77.2 -1.8
Liberal hold Swing +0.4
General Election 1895: Elginshire and Nairnshire [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative John Gordon 2,147 51.5 +7.6
Liberal John Seymour Keay 2,019 48.5 -7.6
Majority 128 3.0 15.2
Turnout 73.5
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +7.6

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Elginshire and Nairnshire [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative John Gordon 2,334 51.9
Liberal Archibald Williamson 2,159 48.1
Majority
Turnout 75.2 +1.7
Conservative hold Swing
A. Williamson
General Election 1906: Elginshire and Nairnshire [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Archibald Williamson 3,006 66.0
Conservative Harry Hope 1,546 34.0
Majority 1,460 32.0 35.8
Turnout 79.1
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election Jan 1910: Elginshire and Nairnshire [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Archibald Williamson 2,917 62.7 -3.3
Conservative Ralph Glyn 1,734 37.3 +3.3
Majority 1,183 25.4 -6.6
Turnout 80.9 +1.8
Liberal hold Swing -3.3
General Election Dec 1910: Elginshire and Nairnshire [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Archibald Williamson unopposed n/a n/a
Liberal hold Swing n/a

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
  2. ↑ Debrett's House of Commons, 1870.
  3. ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
  4. ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
  5. ↑ David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald, (London: Richard Cohen Books), 1977, p. 22.
  6. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
  7. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1900
  8. ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
  9. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
  10. ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
  11. ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
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