Wick Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

UK former constituency infobox
Name = Wick Burghs
Type = Burgh
Year = 1832
Abolition = 1918
members = One

Wick Burghs, sometimes known as Northern Burghs, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

A similar constituency had been known as Tain Burghs from 1708 to 1832.

Boundaries

The constituency was a district of burghs representing the parliamentary burghs of Cromarty, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick. [For the burghs included see Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 and 1885-1918".] Apart from Cromarty, these burghs had been previously components of Tain Burghs. [For the burghs included in Tain Burghs (and the pre-1832 franchise) see Namier and Brooke, "The House of Commons, 1754-1790".] In 1918 Dornoch and Wick were merged into Caithness and Sutherland, Kirkwall into Orkney and Shetland and Cromarty, Dingwall and Tain into Ross and Cromarty. [For the boundary changes in 1918 see Craig, "Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972".] Fact|date=October 2007

The first election in Wick Burghs was in 1832. The franchise was extended to wider groups of the population than under the old system of burgh councillors electing a burgh commissioner to participate in the election. From 1832 the votes from each burgh were added together to establish the result.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Sir Arthur Bignold
votes = 1,362
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = W. Thomson
votes = 1,266
percentage =
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = John McDonald Cameron
votes = 910
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Unionist Party
candidate = John Pender
votes = 686
percentage =
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = John McDonald Cameron
votes = 913
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = John Pender
votes = 868
percentage =
change =

ee also

* List of former Parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom

References

* "The House of Commons 1754-1790", by Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke (HMSO 1964)
* "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885", compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1997)
* "Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833-1987", compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1987)
* "British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918", compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
* "Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972", compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
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*Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889 (for 1885 and 1886 results)
*Whitaker's Almanack, 1907 (for 1906 results)