Scotland became part of the Kingdom of Great Britain under the Acts of Union 1707 from 1 May 1707. It became part of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801.
Under the terms of the Act of Union 1707, Scotland was entitled to 45 members of the House of Commons of the Westminster Parliament.
A Scottish law passed before the Union defined the constituencies for elections to the Parliament of Great Britain. There was a special provision for the selection of Members of Parliament for the 1st Parliament of Great Britain.
In 1707, members of the former Parliament of Scotland were co-opted to serve in the 1st Parliament of Great Britain. See Scottish representatives to the 1st Parliament of Great Britain, for details.
Summary of constituencies and Members of Parliament
editKey to categories: BC - Burgh constituencies, CC - County constituencies, UC - University constituencies, Total C - Total constituencies, BMP - Burgh Members of Parliament, CMP - County Members of Parliament, UMP - University Members of Parliament.
Period | BC | CC | UC | Total C | BMP | CMP | UMP | Total MPs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1707–1708 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 |
1708–1832 | 15 | 30 | 0 | 45 | 15 | 30 | 0 | 45 |
1832–1868 | 21 | 30 | 0 | 51 | 23 | 30 | 0 | 53 |
1868–1885 | 22 | 32 | 2 | 56 | 26 | 32 | 2 | 60 |
1885–1918 | 30 | 39 | 2 | 71 | 31 | 39 | 2 | 72 |
1918–1950 | 32 | 38 | 1 | 71 | 33 | 38 | 3 | 74 |
1950–1974 | 32 | 39 | 0 | 71 | 32 | 39 | 0 | 71 |
1974–1983 | 29 | 42 | 0 | 71 | 29 | 42 | 0 | 71 |
1983–1997 | 29 | 43 | 0 | 72 | 29 | 43 | 0 | 72 |
1997–2005 | 28 | 44 | 0 | 72 | 28 | 44 | 0 | 72 |
2005-current | 19 | 40 | 0 | 59 | 19 | 40 | 0 | 59 |
Constituencies in Scotland from 1707
editNotes:
- Compass point and similar names for Divisions of counties often officially precede the name of the county (Central Aberdeenshire). This list uses the Burgh equivalent form (Aberdeenshire Central), for the first area included in the constituency name. This does not apply to areas where the county name is e.g. East Lothian, or the town name is e.g. East Kilbride.
- The County etc. column includes the historic/administrative county or local government region in which a constituency was included when it was created. Local government boundaries used for a redistribution were sometimes obsolete by the time the new constituencies were first used. Official names of counties did sometimes change (e.g. Edinburghshire and Midlothian). Constituencies created in 2005 have no local area mentioned. A constituency covering more than one such area has the predominant area (or for Districts of Burghs the county of the first named Burgh) recorded.
Historical representation by party
editA cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
Highland
editBefore 1974 comprising the counties of Orkney, Shetland, Caithness, Sutherland, Ross-shire, Cromartyshire and Inverness-shire.
After 1996 comprising the unitary authorities of Highland, Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles), Shetland Islands and Orkney Islands.
1708 to 1832
edit- Orkney & Shetland
- Caithness (alternated with Bute)
- Sutherland
- Ross-shire
- Tain Burghs
- Cromartyshire (alternated with Nairnshire)
- Inverness-shire
- Inverness Burghs
1832 to 1885
editConstituency | 1832 | 33 | 34 | 1835 | 35 | 1837 | 38 | 40 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Caithness | G. Sinclair | Traill | ||||||||||
Inverness Burghs | J. Baillie | Cumming Bruce | → | Macleod | Morrison | A. Matheson | ||||||
Inverness-shire | C. Grant | Chisholm | F. Grant | Baillie | ||||||||
Orkney & Shetland | Traill | Balfour | Dundas | Anderson | F. Dundas | |||||||
Ross & Cromarty | Stewart-Mackenzie | Mackenzie | J. Matheson | |||||||||
Sutherland | Macleod | Howard | D. Dundas | G. Sutherland-Leveson-Gower | ||||||||
Wick Burghs | J. Loch | Laing | Hay |
1859 to 1885
editConstituency | 1859 | 60 | 61 | 1865 | 67 | 1868 | 69 | 72 | 73 | 1874 | 1880 | 84 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Caithness | Traill | J. Sinclair | ||||||||||
Inverness Burghs | A. Matheson | Mackintosh | Fraser-Mackintosh | |||||||||
Inverness-shire | Baillie | Cameron | ||||||||||
Orkney & Shetland | F. Dundas | Laing | ||||||||||
Ross & Cromarty | J. Matheson | A. Matheson | Munro-Ferguson | |||||||||
Sutherland | G. Sutherland-Leveson-Gower | D. Dundas | Gower | C. Sutherland-Leveson-Gower | ||||||||
Wick Burghs | Laing | Keppel | Laing | G. Loch | Pender |
1885 to 1918
editConservative Independent Liberal Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 1892 | 94 | 95 | 1895 | 96 | 1900 | 02 | 06 | Jan 10 | Dec 10 | 11 | 17 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Caithness | Clark* | →* | Harmsworth | ||||||||||||
Inverness Burghs | Finlay | → | Beith | Finlay | Bryce | ||||||||||
Inverness-shire | Fraser-Mackintosh* | →* | MacGregor* | Baillie | Dewar | Morison | |||||||||
Orkney & Shetland | Lyell | Wason | → | → | |||||||||||
Ross & Cromarty | Macdonald* | →* | Weir | Macpherson | |||||||||||
Sutherland | Sutherland-Leveson-Gower | Sutherland | MacLeod* | Leveson-Gower | Morton | ||||||||||
Wick Burghs | Cameron | → | Pender | Hedderwick | Bignold | Munro |
*also the candidate of the Crofters' Party
1918 to 1950
editCoalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Independent Conservative Independent Liberal Labour Liberal National Labour National Liberal (1931-68)
Constituency | 1918 | 21 | 22 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 1935 | 36 | 42 | 1945 | 48 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Caithness and Sutherland | Harmsworth | Sinclair | → | Dower | → | |||||||||
Inverness | Morison | Macdonald | → | → | → | |||||||||
Orkney and Shetland | Wason | Smith | Hamilton | Neven-Spence | ||||||||||
Ross and Cromarty | Macpherson | → | → | MacDonald | MacLeod | |||||||||
Western Isles | Murray | Cotts | Livingstone | Ramsay | → | Macmillan |
1950 to 1983
editConservative Independent Conservative Independent Liberal (MacLeod, 1950) Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68) Scottish National Party (Stewart, 1970) Social Democratic
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 54 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 1979 | 81 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Caithness and Sutherland | Robertson | → | Mackie | Maclennan | → | |||||||
Inverness | Douglas-Hamilton | McLean | Johnston | |||||||||
Orkney and Shetland | Grimond | |||||||||||
Ross and Cromarty | MacLeod | → | Mackenzie | Gray | ||||||||
Western Isles | Macmillan | Stewart |
1983 to 2005
editLabour Liberal Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Social Democratic
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 88 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Caithness & Sutherland / Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross ('97) | Maclennan | → | Thurso | |||
Inverness, Nairn & Lochaber / Inverness E, Nairn & Lochaber (1997) | Johnston | → | Stewart | |||
Orkney and Shetland | Wallace | → | Carmichael | |||
Ross, Cromarty and Skye / Ross, Skye & Inverness W (1997) | Kennedy | → | ||||
Western Isles | Stewart | MacDonald |
2005 to present
editIndependent Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party
Constituency | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 23 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross | Thurso | Monaghan | Stone | ||||
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey / Inverness, Skye & W Ross-shire ('24) | Alexander | Hendry | MacDonald | ||||
Na h-Eileanan an Iar | MacNeil | → | Crichton | ||||
Orkney and Shetland | Carmichael | ||||||
Ross, Skye and Lochaber | → | Blackford | N/A |
Grampian
editBefore 1974 comprising the counties of Elginshire, Nairnshire, Banffshire, Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire.
After 1996 comprising the unitary authorities of Aberdeenshire, City of Aberdeen and Moray.
1708 to 1832
edit- Banffshire
- Elginshire
- Elgin Burghs
- Nairnshire (alternated with Cromartyshire)
- Aberdeenshire
- Aberdeen Burghs
- Kincardineshire
1832 to 1885
editConservative Party Independent Liberal Party Tories Whig Party
Constituency | 1832 | 1835 | 1837 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 | 1859 | 1865 | 1868 | 1874 | 1880 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Banffshire | Tory | Conservative | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Elgin Burghs | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Elginshire and Nairnshire | Tory | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Liberal | Liberal |
Aberdeen | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Aberdeenshire / East Aberdeenshire (1868) | Tory | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Whig | Liberal | Conservative | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
West Aberdeenshire | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | |||||||||
Kincardineshire | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
1885 to 1918
editConservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 89 | 92 | 92 | 93 | 95 | 96 | 1900 | 05 | 1906 | 06 | 07 | 08 | Jan 10 | Dec 10 | 17 | 18 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aberdeen North | Hunter | Pirie | ||||||||||||||||
Aberdeen South | Bryce | Esslemont | Fleming | |||||||||||||||
Aberdeenshire East | Esslemont | Buchanan | Maconochie | Annand | J. Murray | Cowan | ||||||||||||
Aberdeenshire West | Farquharson | Henderson | ||||||||||||||||
Banffshire | Duff | Wedderburn | Black | Waring | ||||||||||||||
Elgin Burghs | Asher | Sutherland | Barrie | |||||||||||||||
Elginshire & Nairnshire | Macpherson-Grant | Anderson | Keay | Gordon | Williamson | |||||||||||||
Kincardineshire | Balfour | Crombie | A. Murray |
1918 to 1983
editCoalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Labour Liberal
Constituency | 1918 | 19 | 22 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 28 | 1929 | 1931 | 35 | 1935 | 39 | 1945 | 46 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aberdeen North | Rose | Benn | Burnett | Garro-Jones | H. Hughes | |||||||||
Aberdeen South | F. Thomson | D. Thomson | Buchan | |||||||||||
Aberdeen & Kincardine Central | Gordon | Wood | Smith | Spence | ||||||||||
Aberdeen & Kincardine East | Cowan | Martin | Boothby | |||||||||||
Banff | Barrie | → | Templeton | Wood | Findlay | Duthie | ||||||||
Kincardine & Aberdeenshire West | Murray | → | Barclay-Harvey | Scott | Barclay-Harvey | Thornton-Kemsley | ||||||||
Moray and Nairn | Williamson | Guthrie | Stuart |
1950 to 1983
editConservative Labour Liberal Scottish National Party
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 58 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 1979 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aberdeen North | H. Hughes | R. Hughes | |||||||||
Aberdeen South | Buchan | Dewar | Sproat | ||||||||
Aberdeenshire East | Boothby | Wolrige-Gordon | Henderson | McQuarrie | |||||||
Aberdeenshire West | Spence | Hendry | Davidson | Mitchell | Fairgrieve | ||||||
Banff | Duthie | Baker | Watt | Myles | |||||||
Moray and Nairn | Stuart | Campbell | W. Ewing | Pollock |
1983 to 2005
editConservative Labour Liberal Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 88 | 91 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aberdeen Central | Doran | ||||||
Aberdeen North | R. Hughes | Savidge | |||||
Aberdeen South | Malone | Doran | Robertson | Begg | |||
Banff and Buchan | McQuarrie | Salmond | |||||
Gordon | Bruce | → | |||||
Kincardine & Deeside / W Aberdeenshire & Kincardine ('97) | Buchanan-Smith | Stephen | Kynoch | Smith | |||
Moray | Pollock | M. Ewing | Robertson |
2005 to present
editConservative Labour Liberal Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party
Constituency | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aberdeen North | Doran | Blackman | ||||
Aberdeen South | Begg | McCaig | R. Thomson | Flynn | ||
Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine | Smith | Donaldson | Bowie | |||
Banff & Buchan / Aberdeenshire N & Moray E ('24) | Salmond | Whiteford | Duguid | Logan | ||
Gordon / Gordon & Buchan (2024) | Bruce | Salmond | Clark | R. G. Thomson | Cross | |
Moray / Moray West, Nairn & Strathspey (2024) | Robertson | Ross | Leadbitter |
Central and Tayside
editBefore 1974 comprising the counties of Forfarshire, Perthshire, Clackmannanshire, Kinross-shire and Stirlingshire.
After 1996 comprising the unitary authorities of Falkirk, Perth and Kinross, City of Dundee, Angus, Stirling and Clackmannanshire.
1708 to 1832
edit- Forfarshire
- Perthshire
- Perth Burghs
- Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire (alternated)
- Stirlingshire
- Stirling Burghs
1832 to 1885
editConservative Party Independent Liberal Party Peelite Radicals Whig Party
Constituency | 1832 | 1835 | 1837 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 | 1859 | 1865 | 1868 | 1874 | 1880 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Forfarshire | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Montrose Burghs | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Radical | Radical | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Dundee | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | ||||||||||
Perth | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Perthshire | Whig | Whig | Conservative | Peelite | Peelite | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Liberal | Conservative | Liberal |
Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Falkirk Burghs | Whig | Whig | Whig | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Stirling Burghs | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Stirlingshire | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Conservative | Liberal |
1885 to 1918
editConservative Labour Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 88 | 89 | 1892 | 94 | 1895 | 96 | 97 | 99 | 1900 | 03 | 1906 | 07 | 08 | 09 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 17 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dundee | Lacaita | Firth | Leng | Wilkie | ||||||||||||||||
Robertson | Churchill | |||||||||||||||||||
Forfarshire | Barclay | → | Rigby | Ramsay | White | Sinclair | Falconer | |||||||||||||
Montrose Burghs | Will | Morley | Harcourt | |||||||||||||||||
Perth | Parker | Whitelaw | Wallace | Pullar | Whyte | |||||||||||||||
Perthshire Eastern | Menzies | Kinloch | Buchanan | Young | ||||||||||||||||
Perthshire Western | Currie | → | Stroyan | Erskine | Stewart-Murray | Stirling | ||||||||||||||
Clackmannanshire & Kinross-shire | Balfour | Wason | ||||||||||||||||||
Falkirk Burghs | Ramsay | Sinclair | Smith | Wilson | Macdonald | |||||||||||||||
Stirling Burghs | Campbell-Bannerman | Ponsonby | ||||||||||||||||||
Stirlingshire | Bolton | Jacks | McKillop | Smeaton | Chapple |
1918 to 1950
editCoalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Independent Independent Liberal Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68) Scottish Prohibition
Constituency | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 24 | 1929 | 30 | 31 | 1931 | 32 | 35 | 1935 | 38 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 1945 | 48 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dundee | Wilkie | Morel | T. Johnston | Marcus | Foot | Cook | ||||||||||||
Churchill | Scrymgeour | Horsbrugh | Strachey | |||||||||||||||
Forfarshire | Shaw | Falconer | Hope | Shaw | Ramsay | |||||||||||||
Montrose Burghs | Sturrock | → | Hutchison | → | → | Kerr | Maclay | |||||||||||
Perth | Young | Skelton | Mitchell | Skelton | Murray | Norie-Miller | Hunter | Gomme-Duncan | ||||||||||
Kinross and West Perthshire | Gardiner | → | Stewart-Murray | → | Snadden | |||||||||||||
Stirling and Falkirk Burghs | Macdonald | Murnin | McCrae | Murnin | Reid | Westwood | MacPherson | |||||||||||
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire | Glyn | MacNeill Weir | J. Johnston | MacNeill Weir | Woodburn | |||||||||||||
Stirlingshire West | Hope | T. Johnston | Fanshawe | T. Johnston | Ker | T. Johnston | Balfour |
1950 to 1983
editConservative Labour National Liberal (1931-68) Scottish National Party
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 52 | 1955 | 1959 | 63 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 71 | 73 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Angus North and Mearns | Thornton-Kemsley | Buchanan-Smith | ||||||||||||
Angus South | Duncan | Bruce-Gardyne | Welsh | Fraser | ||||||||||
Dundee East | Cook | Thomson | Machin | Wilson | ||||||||||
Dundee West | Strachey | Doig | Ross | |||||||||||
Kinross and Perthshire West | Snadden | Leburn | Douglas-Home | Fairbairn | ||||||||||
Perth and Perthshire East | Gomme-Duncan | MacArthur | Crawford | Walker | ||||||||||
Stirling & Falkirk / S., F. & Grangemouth ('74) | MacPherson | Ewing | ||||||||||||
Stirlingshire East and Clackmannan | Woodburn | Douglas | Reid | O'Neill | ||||||||||
Stirlingshire West | Balfour | Baxter | Canavan |
1983 to 2005
editConservative Labour Scottish National Party
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 95 | 1997 | 00 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Angus East / Angus (1997) | Fraser | Welsh | Weir | ||||
Clackmannan / Ochil (1997) | O'Neill | ||||||
Dundee East | Wilson | McAllion | Luke | ||||
Dundee West | Ross | ||||||
Falkirk East | Ewing | Connarty | |||||
Falkirk West | Canavan | Joyce | |||||
Perth and Kinross / Perth (1997) | Fairbairn | Cunningham | Ewing | ||||
Stirling | Forsyth | McGuire | |||||
Tayside North | Walker | Swinney | Wishart |
2005 to present
editConservative Independent Labour Scottish National Party
Constituency | 2005 | 2010 | 12 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Angus / Angus & Perthshire Glens (2024) | Weir | Hair | Doogan | ||||
Dundee East / Arbroath & Broughty Ferry (2024) | Hosie | Gethins | |||||
Dundee West / Dundee Central (2024) | McGovern | Law | |||||
Falkirk | Joyce | → | McNally | Stainbank | |||
Ochil & South Perthshire / Alloa & Grangemouth (2024) | Banks | Ahmed-Sheikh | Graham | Nicolson | Leishman | ||
Perth & North Perthshire / Perth & Kinross-shire (2024) | Wishart | ||||||
Stirling / Stirling & Strathallan (2024) | McGuire | Paterson | Kerr | Smith | Kane |
Fife
edit1708 to 1832
edit1832 to 1885
editConstituency | 1832 | 1835 | 1837 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 | 1859 | 1865 | 1868 | 1874 | 1880 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fife | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Kirkcaldy District of Burghs | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Liberal |
St Andrews Burghs | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
1885 to 1918
editConservative Independent Liberal Labour Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 89 | 92 | 1892 | 1895 | 1900 | 03 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 12 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fife East | Kinnear | → | Asquith | ||||||||||
Fife West | Bruce | Birrell | Hope | Adamson | |||||||||
Kirkcaldy Burghs | Campbell | Dalziel | |||||||||||
St Andrews Burghs | R. Anstruther | H. Anstruther | Ellice | Anstruther-Gray | Millar | Anstruther-Gray | → |
1918 to 1974
editCoalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Communist Conservative Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68)
Constituency | 1918 | 21 | 1922 | 23 | 1924 | 1929 | 31 | 31 | 33 | 1935 | 44 | 45 | 50 | 51 | 55 | 59 | 61 | 64 | 66 | 70 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dunfermline Burghs | Wallace | Watson | Wallace | Watson | Clunie | Thompson | Hunter | |||||||||||||
Fife East | Sprot | Millar | Cochrane | Millar | → | Henderson-Stewart | Gilmour | |||||||||||||
Fife West | Adamson | Milne | Gallacher | Hamilton | ||||||||||||||||
Kirkcaldy Burghs | Dalziel | Kennedy | Hutchison | Kennedy | Russell | Kennedy | Hubbard | Gourlay |
1974 to 2005
editConservative Labour Liberal Democrats Liberal Scottish National Party
Constituency | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 88 | 90 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dunfermline East | Brown | |||||||||
Dunfermline / Dunfermline W (1983) | Hunter | Douglas | → | Squire | ||||||
Fife Central | Hamilton | McLeish | MacDougall | |||||||
Kirkcaldy | Gourlay | Moonie | ||||||||
Fife East / North East Fife (1983) | Gilmour | Henderson | Campbell | → |
2005 to present
editAlba Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party
Constituency | 2005 | 06 | 08 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dunfermline & W Fife / Dunfermline & Dollar (2024) | Squire | Rennie | Docherty | Chapman | Downie | ||||||
Glenrothes / Glenrothes & Mid Fife (2024) | MacDougall | Roy | Grant | Baker | |||||||
Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath / Cowdenbeath & Kirkcaldy ('24) | Brown | Mullin | Laird | Hanvey | → | → | → | Ward | |||
North East Fife | Campbell | Gethins | Chamberlain |
Strathclyde
editBefore 1974 comprising the counties of Argyllshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire and Lanarkshire.
After 1996 comprising the unitary authorities of City of Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, North Ayrshire, East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire, Argyll and Bute and Inverclyde.
1708 to 1832
edit- Argyllshire
- Bute (alternated with Caithness)
- Dunbartonshire
- Renfrewshire
- Ayrshire
- Ayr Burghs
- Lanarkshire
- Glasgow Burghs
1832 to 1885
editConstituency | 1832 | 1835 | 1837 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 | 1859 | 1865 | 1868 | 1874 | 1880 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Argyllshire | Whig | Whig | Whig | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Buteshire | Tory | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Whig | Conservative | Liberal | Conservative | Conservative | Liberal |
Dunbartonshire | Whig | Whig | Whig | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative |
Greenock | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Paisley | Independent | Radical | Radical | Radical | Radical | Radical | Radical | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Renfrewshire | Independent | Independent | Conservative | Whig | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Ayr Burghs | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Radical | Radical | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Conservative | Liberal |
Kilmarnock Burghs | Whig | Radical | Conservative | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Ayrshire / North Ayrshire (1868) | Whig | Whig | Whig | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Whig | Liberal | Conservative | Liberal | Conservative | Conservative |
South Ayrshire | Liberal | Conservative | Conservative | |||||||||
Glasgow 1 | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Glasgow 2 | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Conservative | Liberal |
Glasgow 3 | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | |||||||||
Lanarkshire / North Lanarkshire (1868) | Whig | Whig | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
South Lanarkshire | Liberal | Conservative | Liberal |
1885 to 1918
editConservative Independent Liberal Labour Liberal Liberal Unionist National Democratic & Labour
1918 to 1950
editCoalition Labour Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Communist Conservative Independent Labour Independent Labour Party Labour Liberal National Independent National Labour National Liberal (1931-68) New Party Scottish National Party
1950 to 1974 (35 constituencies)
editConservative Labour National Liberal (1931-68) Scottish National Party
1974 to 1983 (34 constituencies)
editConservative Labour Scottish Labour Scottish National Party Social Democratic
1983 to 2005 (33 constituencies)
editConservative Independent Labour Liberal Liberal Democrats Respect Scottish National Party Social Democratic Speaker
2005 to 2024 (25 constituencies)
editConservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Speaker
2024 to present (24 constituencies)
editLabour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party
Lothian
editBefore 1974 comprising the counties of Linlithgowshire, Edinburghshire and Haddingtonshire.
After 1996 comprising the unitary authorities of City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, East Lothian and Midlothian.
1708 to 1832
edit1832 to 1885
editConstituency | 1832 | 1835 | 1837 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 | 1859 | 1865 | 1868 | 1874 | 1880 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Linlithgowshire | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Edinburgh | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Radical | Radical | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | |
Leith Burghs | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Midlothian | Whig | Conservative | Whig | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Liberal | Conservative | Liberal |
Haddington Burghs | Whig | Whig | Whig | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Liberal |
Haddingtonshire | Conservative | Whig | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative |
1885 to 1918
editConservative Independent Liberal Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 86 | 88 | 1892 | 93 | 95 | 1895 | 99 | 1900 | 1906 | 09 | Jan 1910 | 10 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 17 |
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Linlithgowshire | McLagan | Hope | Ure | Pratt | |||||||||||||||||
Edinburgh Central | Wilson | McEwan | Brown | Price | |||||||||||||||||
Edinburgh East | Goschen | → | Wallace | McCrae | Gibson | Hogge | |||||||||||||||
Edinburgh South | Harrison | Childers | Paul | Cox | Dewar | Agnew | Dewar | Lyell | Parrott | ||||||||||||
Edinburgh West | Buchanan | → | → | Palmer | McIver | Clyde | → | ||||||||||||||
Leith Burghs | Jacks | → | Gladstone | Ferguson | Currie | ||||||||||||||||
Midlothian | Gladstone | Gibson-Carmichael | Murray | Primrose | Murray | J. A. Hope | |||||||||||||||
Haddingtonshire | Haldane | J. D. Hope |
1918 to 1950
editConservative Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68)
Constituency | 1918 | 20 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 35 | 1935 | 41 | 43 | 1945 | 45 | 47 |
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Edinburgh South | Murray | Chapman | Darling | |||||||||||||||
Midlothian and Peebles North | Hope | Hutchison | Clarke | Hutchison | Clarke | Colville | Murray | Hope | ||||||||||
Edinburgh West | Jameson | Phillipps | MacIntyre | Mathers | Normand | Cooper | Hutchison | |||||||||||
Edinburgh North | Clyde | Ford | Raffan | Ford | Erskine-Hill | Willis | ||||||||||||
Edinburgh Central | Graham | Guy | Watt | Gilzean | ||||||||||||||
Leith | Benn | Brown | → | Hoy | ||||||||||||||
Peebles and South Midlothian | Maclean | Westwood | Ramsay | Pryde | ||||||||||||||
Linlithgow | Kidd | Shinwell | Kidd | Shinwell | Baillie | Mathers | ||||||||||||
Edinburgh East | Hogge | Shiels | Mason | Pethick-Lawrence | Thomson | Wheatley |
1950 to 1983
editConstituency | 1950 | 1951 | 54 | 55 | 1955 | 57 | 1959 | 60 | 62 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 73 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 |
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Edinburgh South | Darling | Hutchison | Ancram | |||||||||||||
Edinburgh Pentlands | Hope | Wylie | Rifkind | |||||||||||||
Edinburgh West | Hutchison | Stodart | Douglas-Hamilton | |||||||||||||
Edinburgh North | Clyde | Milligan | Scott | Fletcher | ||||||||||||
Edinburgh Central | Gilzean | Oswald | Cook | |||||||||||||
Edinburgh Leith | Hoy | Murray | Brown | |||||||||||||
Midlothian & Peebles / Midlothian ('55) | Pryde | Hill | Eadie | |||||||||||||
West Lothian | Mathers | Taylor | Dalyell | |||||||||||||
Edinburgh East | Wheatley | Willis | Strang |
1983 to 2005
editConservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 |
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East Lothian | Robertson | Picking | |||
Edinburgh Central | Fletcher | Darling | |||
Edinburgh East / Edinburgh E & Musselburgh (1997) | Strang | ||||
Edinburgh Leith / Edinburgh North and Leith (1997) | Brown | Chisholm | Lazarowicz | ||
Edinburgh Pentlands | Rifkind | Clark | |||
Edinburgh South | Ancram | Griffiths | |||
Edinburgh West | Douglas-Hamilton | Gorrie | Barrett | ||
Linlithgow | Dalyell | ||||
Livingston | Cook | ||||
Midlothian | Eadie | Clarke | Hamilton |
2005 to present
editAlba Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party
Constituency | 2005 | 05 | 2010 | 2015 | 15 | 2017 | 2019 | 21 | 2024 |
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East Lothian | Picking | O'Donnell | Kerevan | Whitfield | MacAskill | → | Alexander | ||
Edinburgh East / Edinburgh E & Musselburgh (2024) | Strang | Gilmore | Sheppard | C. Murray | |||||
Edinburgh North and Leith | Lazarowicz | Brock | Gilbert | ||||||
Edinburgh South | Griffiths | I. Murray | |||||||
Edinburgh South West | Darling | Cherry | Arthur | ||||||
Edinburgh West | Barrett | Crockart | Thomson | → | Jardine | ||||
Linlithgow & E Falkirk / Bathgate & Linlithgow (2024) | Connarty | Day | Sullivan | ||||||
Livingston | Cook | Devine | Morrice | Bardell | Poynton | ||||
Midlothian | Hamilton | Thompson | Rowley | Thompson | McNeill |
Dumfries and Galloway and Borders
editBefore 1974 comprising the counties of Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Wigtownshire, Peeblesshire, Selkirkshire, Roxburghshire and Berwickshire.
After 1996 comprising the unitary authorities of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders.
1708 to 1832
edit- Dumfriesshire
- Dumfries Burghs
- Wigtownshire
- Wigtown Burghs
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Peebleshire
- Selkirkshire
- Roxburghshire
- Berwickshire
1832 to 1885
editConstituency | 1832 | 1835 | 1837 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 | 1859 | 1865 | 1868 | 1874 | 1880 |
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Dumfries Burghs | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal |
Dumfriesshire | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Liberal | Conservative | Liberal |
Wigtown Burghs | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Conservative | Liberal |
Wigtownshire | Whig | Whig | Conservative | Whig | Whig | Whig | Whig | Liberal | Liberal | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative |
Kirkcudbright Stewartry | Whig | Independent | Independent | Independent | Whig | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent |
Peeblesshire / Peebles and Selkirk (1868) | Conservative | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Liberal |
Selkirkshire | Whig | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | |||
Hawick Burghs | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | |||||||||
Roxburghshire | Whig | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Independent | Liberal |
Berwickshire | Whig | Independent | Independent | Independent | Conservative | Conservative | Conservative | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | Conservative | Liberal |
1885 to 1918
editConservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 1892 | 94 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | 09 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 15 |
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Berwickshire | Marjoribanks | Tennant | ||||||||||
Dumfries Burghs | Noel | Reid | Gulland | |||||||||
Dumfriesshire | Jardine | → | Maxwell | Souttar | Maxwell | Molteno | ||||||
Hawick Burghs | Trevelyan | → | Brown | Shaw | Barran | |||||||
Kirkcudbright Stewartry | McTaggart-Stewart | McMicking | McTaggart-Stewart | McMicking | ||||||||
Peeblesshire & Selkirkshire | Tennant | Thorburn | Murray | Younger | Maclean | |||||||
Roxburghshire | Elliot | → | Napier | Montagu-Douglas-Scott | Jardine | |||||||
Wigtownshire | Maxwell | J. Dalrymple | H. Dalrymple |
1918 to 1950
editCoalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Independent Conservative Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68) New Party
Constituency | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 25 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 31 | 35 | 1935 | 1945 | 48 |
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Berwick & Haddington | Hope | Waring | Spence | Crookshank | Sinkinson | McEwen | Robertson | ||||||
Dumfriesshire | Murray | Chapple | Charteris | Hunter | → | Fildes | Macpherson | ||||||
Galloway | McMicking | Dudgeon | Henniker-Hughan | Streatfeild | Dudgeon | → | Mackie | → | → | ||||
Roxburgh & Selkirk | Munro | Henderson | Montagu Douglas Scott | Montagu Douglas Scott |
1950 to 1983
editConservative Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68) Scottish National Party
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 55 | 59 | 59 | 63 | 1964 | 65 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 78 | 1979 |
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Berwick & East Lothian | Robertson | Anstruther-Gray | Mackintosh | Ancram | Mackintosh | Robertson | ||||||||
Dumfries | Macpherson | Anderson | Monro | |||||||||||
Galloway | Mackie | Brewis | Thompson | Lang | ||||||||||
Roxburgh & Selkirk / R., S. & Peebles ('55) | Macdonald | Donaldson | Steel |
1983 to present
editConservative Labour Liberal Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 88 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dumfriesshire / D'shire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale (2005) | Monro | Brown | Mundell | |||||||||
Galloway & Upper Nithsdale / Dumfries & Galloway (2005) | Lang | Morgan | Duncan | Brown | Arkless | Jack | Cooper | |||||
Roxburgh & Berwickshire / B'shire, Roxburgh & Selkirk ('05) | Kirkwood | → | Moore | Kerr | Lamont | |||||||
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale | Steel | → | Moore |
Non-geographic
edit1832 to 1885
editConstituency | 1832 | 1835 | 1837 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 | 1859 | 1865 | 1868 | 1869 | 1874 | 1874 | 1876 | 1880 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities | Playfair | ||||||||||||||
Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities | Moncreiff | Gordon | Watson | Campbell |
1885 to 1918
editConstituency | 1885 | 1986 | 1886 | 1888 | 1890 | 1892 | 1895 | 1896 | 1900 | 1900 | 1906 | 1910 | 1910 | 1912 | 1916 | 1917 |
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Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities | Macdonald | Stormonth-Darling | Pearson | Priestley | Tuke | Finlay | → | Johnston | Cheyne | |||||||
Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities | Campbell | Craik |
1918 to 1950
editConstituency | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1927 | 1929 | 1931 | 1934 | 1935 | 1935 | 1936 | 1938 | 1945 | 1945 | 1946 |
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Combined Scottish Universities | Cheyne | Berry | Skelton | Ramsay MacDonald | Anderson | ||||||||||
Cowan | → | Morrison | → | Boyd-Orr | Elliot | ||||||||||
Craik | → | Buchan | Kerr |
Sources
edit- British Historical Facts 1760-1830 by Chris Cook and John Stevenson
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1983, (5 volumes) edited by F.W.S. Craig