Peebles and Selkirk (UK Parliament constituency)
Peebles and Selkirk was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1868 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Boundaries
The name relates the constituency to the counties of Peebles and Selkirk.
From 1708 to 1868 the counties had been covered, at least nominally, by the Peeblesshire and Selkirkshire constituencies.
When the Peebles and Selkirk constituency was abolished in 1918, the Peebles and Southern Midlothian and Roxburgh and Selkirk constituencies were created.
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Carmichael
Elections in the 1900s
Edward Tennant
Alexander Murray
Elections in the 1910s
William Younger
Donald Maclean
General Election 1914/15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1892
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
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