Haddingtonshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Haddingtonshire (UK Parliament constituency)
UK former constituency infobox
Name = Haddingtonshire
Type = County
Year = 1708
Abolition = 1918
members = One
Haddingtonshire was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1918.
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.
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
Election results
Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane KC
votes = 3,469
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = G. Craig Sellar
votes = 2,289
percentage =
change =
Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Richard Burdon Haldane
votes = 2,677
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Unionist Party
candidate = Philip Albert Myburgh QC
votes = 1,714
percentage =
change =
Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Richard Burdon Haldane
votes = 3,472
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Lord Elcho
votes = 945 (?)
percentage =
change =
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