Elgin Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

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

Elgin Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. Until 1832, when Peterhead was added, the constituency comprised the parliamentary burghs of Elgin, Cullen, Banff, Inverurie and Kintore, lying in Elginshire (later known as Morayshire), Banffshire and Aberdeenshire.

In 1918 the constituency was abolished. Elgin became part of Elginshire and Nairnshire, Banff and Cullen part of Banffshire, Inverurie and Kintore part of Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West and Peterhead part of Aberdeenshire East.

Member of Parliament

* 1708 Patrick Ogilvie
*1710 Alexander Reid
*1713 James Murray
*1715 John Campbell, later Duke of Argyll
*1722 William Fraser
*1725 John Campbell, later Duke of Argyll
*1727 William Steuart
*1728 Patrick Campbell
*1734 William Steuart
*1741 Sir James Grant
*1747 William Grant
*1755 Sir Andrew Mitchell
*1771 Thomas Lockhart
*1774 Staats Long Morris
*1784 William Adam
*1790 Alexander Brodie
*1802 Francis William Grant, later Earl of Seafield
*1806 George Skene
*1807 Archibald Campbell-Colquhoun
*1810 William Dundas
*1812 Archibald Campbell
*1812 Patrick Milne
*1818 Robert Grant
*1820 Archibald Farquharson
*1826 Alexander Duff
*1831 Sir William Gordon Gordon-Cumming
*1832 Sir Andrew Leith Hay
*1838 Fox Maule, later Earl of Dalhousie
*1841 Sir Andrew Leith Hay
*1847 George Skene Duff
*1857 Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff, Liberal
*1881 Alexander Asher, Liberal
*1905 John Ebenezer Sutherland, Liberal
*1918 Charles Coupar Barrie, later Baron Abertay, Liberal

Election results

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = John Ebenezer Sutherland
votes = 2,742
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = R. Mackenzie
votes = 786
percentage =
change =

Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Alexander Asher QC
votes = 1,668
percentage =
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = James Augustus Grant
votes = 1,127
percentage =
change = Election box Registered electors
reg. electors = 4,182

Alexander Asher was elected unopposed at the General Election 1885, at a bye-election on 12 February 1886 after acceptance of office, and again at the General Election 1886. [ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889]

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