Inverness Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Inverness Burghs
Type = Burgh
Year = 1708
Abolition = 1918
members = one

Inverness Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (also at Westminster) from 1801 to 1918, representing a seat for one Member of Parliament (MP).

There was also, 1708 to 1918, the Inverness-shire constituency, which was, as its name implies, a county constituency.

Boundaries

As first used in the 1708 general election Inverness Burghs consisted of four burghs: Inverness in the county of Inverness, Fortrose in the county of Ross, Forres in the county of Elgin and Nairn in the county of Nairn.

For the 1832 general election, as a result of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832, the boundaries of burghs for parliamentary election purposes ceased to be necessarily those for other purposes.

For the 1918 general election, as a result of the Representation of the People Act 1918, the component burghs of Inverness Burghs were merged into three different county constituencies: Inverness into the Inverness constituency, Forres and Nairn into the Moray and Nairn constituency and Fortrose into the Ross and Cromarty constituency. By this date, the county of Elgin had become the county of Moray and the county of Ross had been merged with the county of Cromarty to form the county of Ross and Cromarty.

Member of Parliament

*1708 Alexander Duff
*1710 George Mackenzie
*1713 William Steuart
*1722 Alexander Gordon
*1722 Duncan Forbes
*1737 Duncan Urquhart
*1741 Kenneth Mackenzie, Baron Fortrose
*1747 Alexander Brodie
*1754 John Campbell
*1761 Sir Alexander Grant
*1768 Sir Hector Munro
*1802 Alexander Penrose Cumming-Gordon
*1803 George Cumming
*1806 Francis William Grant, later Earl of Seafield
*1807 Peter Baillie
*1811 Charles Grant, later Baron Glenelg
*1818 George Cumming
*1826 Robert Grant
*1830 John Baillie
*1831 Charles Lennox Cumming Bruce
*1832 John Baillie
*1833 Charles Lennox Cumming Bruce
*1837 Roderick MacLeod
*1840 James Morrison
*1847 Alexander Matheson, Liberal
*1868 Aeneas William Mackintosh
*1874 Charles Fraser-Mackintosh
*1885 Robert Bannatyne Finlay, later Viscount Finlay Liberal/ Liberal Unionist
*1892 Gilbert Beith
*1895 Robert Bannatyne Finlay, later Viscount Finlay Liberal
*1906 John Annan Bryce Liberal

Elections in the 1880s

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Robert Bannatyne Finlay
votes = 1,709
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Walter Bright McLaren
votes = 1,546
percentage =
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Unionist Party
candidate = Robert Bannatyne Finlay
votes = 1,619
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Rt Hon Sir Robert Peel GCB
votes = 1,346
percentage =
change =

ee also

*Former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies