North Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Ayrshire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Ayrshire
1868 (1868)–1918 (1918)
Number of members	One

North Ayrshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1918. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.

Boundaries

The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 provided that the new North Ayrshire constituency was to consist of the District of Cunningham, consisting of the parishes of Ardrossan, Dalry, Dreghorn, Fenwick, Irvine, Kilbirnie, Kilmarnock, Kilmaurs, Kilwinning, Largs, Loudoun, Stevenston, Stewarton, West Kilbride and Beith, and the parish of Dunlop so far as situated within the County of Ayr.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1868	William Finnie	Liberal
	1874	Roger Montgomerie
	1880	Robert William Cochran-Patrick	Conservative
	1885	Hugh Elliot	Liberal
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	1892	Thomas Cochrane Conservative	Liberal Unionist
	1910	Andrew Macbeth Anderson	Liberal
	1911	Duncan Frederick Campbell	Conservative
	1916	Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston	Conservative
1918		constituency abolished

In 1918 North Ayrshire was divided between Bute and Northern Ayrshire and Kilmarnock.

Election results

By-election 20 Dec 1911: Ayrshire North[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Duncan Frederick Campbell DSO	7,318
	Liberal	Andrew Macbeth Anderson	7,047

General Election Dec 1910: Ayrshire North[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Andrew Macbeth Anderson	7,286
	Conservative	Duncan Frederick Campbell DSO	6,932

General Election Jan 1910: Ayrshire North[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Andrew Macbeth Anderson	6,189
	Liberal Unionist	Hon Thomas Cochrane	5,951
	Labour	James Brown	1,801

General Election 1906: Ayrshire North[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Hon Thomas Cochrane	5,603
	Liberal	Andrew Macbeth Anderson	4,587
	Scottish Workers	James Brown	2,684

General Election 1900: Ayrshire North[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Hon Thomas Cochrane	5,985
	Liberal	A. Williamson	4,791

General Election 1895: Ayrshire North[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Hon Thomas Cochrane	5,612
	Liberal	William Robertson	4,902

General Election 1892: Ayrshire North[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Hon Thomas Cochrane	5,346
	Liberal	Sir William Wedderburn Bt	4,898

General Election 1886: Hon Hugh Frederick Hyslop Elliot elected unopposed as Liberal Unionist ^[5]

General Election 1885: Ayrshire North [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hon Hugh Elliot	5,700
	Conservative	Robert William Cochran-Patrick	4,740

General Election 1880: Ayrshire North [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert William Cochran-Patrick	1,636
	Liberal	J.B. Balfour	1,581

See also

• Former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
2. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
3. ^ ^{a b} Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
4. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
5. ^ ^{a b} Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
6. ^ The Times, 29 April 1880

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 3)