Leith Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)
- Leith Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)
UK former constituency infobox
Name = Leith Burghs
Type = Burgh
Year = 1832
Abolition = 1918
members = one
Leith Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918. The constituency represented the parliamentary burghs of Leith, Musselburgh and Portobello.
In 1918 Leith was included in Edinburgh Leith. Musselburgh and Portobello were merged into Edinburgh East
Members of Parliament
*1832: John Archibald Murray
*1839: Andrew Rutherfurd
*1851: James Moncreiff, later Baron Moncreiff
*1859: Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet
*1868: Robert Andrew Macfie
*1874: Donald Robert Macgregor
*1878: Andrew Grant
*1885: William Jacks
*1886: William Ewart Gladstone
*1886: Ronald Munro-Ferguson, later Viscount Novar
*1914: George Welsh Currie
Election results
Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Ronald Munro-Ferguson
votes = 7,677
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Frank T. Cooper KC
votes = 4,865
percentage =
change =
See also
* District of burghs
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