Kirkcudbright_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Kirkcudbright Stewartry (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801–1918

Kirkcudbright Stewartry, later known as Kirkcudbright or Kirkcudbrightshire, was a Scottish 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. It was represented by one Member of Parliament (MP).

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Kirkcudbright Stewartry
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright
1708–1918
Seats	One
Created from	Kirkcudbrightshire
Replaced by	Galloway

Creation

The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland shire constituency of Kirkcudbright Stewartry. The first election in the stewartry was in 1708. In 1707–08, members of the 1702-1707 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 further details.

The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright was a Scottish stewartry (later considered to be a county and sometimes called Kirkcudbrightshire), which had been represented by two commissioners in the former Parliament of Scotland. The constituency included the whole stewartry, except for the Royal burghs of Kirkcudbright (which formed part of the Dumfries Burghs constituency) and New Galloway (which between 1708 and 1885 was included in the Wigtown Burghs district). In 1918 the area was combined with Wigtownshire to form the Galloway constituency.

The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system until the seat was abolished in 1918.^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]

More information Election, Member ...

Election		Member	Party
	25 June 1708	John Stewart
	17 February 1715	Alexander Murray
	14 September 1727	Patrick Heron
	22 May 1741	Basil Hamilton
	31 December 1742	John Maxwell
	30 July 1747	John Ross Mackye
	19 April 1768	James Murray
	2 November 1774	William Stewart
	9 October 1780	Peter Johnston
	6 April 1781	John Gordon
	6 February 1782	Peter Johnston
	16 August 1786	Alexander Stewart
	23 March 1795	Patrick Heron	Whig
	10 May 1803	Montgomery Granville John Stewart	Conservative
	2 November 1812	James Dunlop
	1826	Robert Cutlar Fergusson	Whig^[6]^[7]
	1838	Alexander Murray	Whig^[6]^[8]
	1845	Thomas Maitland	Whig^[9]^[10]^[11]
	1850	John Mackie	Whig^[12]^[13]
	1857	James Mackie	Whig^[14]
	1859	James Mackie	Liberal
	1868	Wellwood Herries Maxwell	Liberal
	1874	John Maitland	Liberal
	1880	John Heron-Maxwell	Liberal
	1885	Sir Mark MacTaggart-Stewart	Conservative
	1906	Gilbert McMicking	Liberal
	Jan 1910	Sir Mark MacTaggart-Stewart	Conservative
	Dec 1910	Gilbert McMicking	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished

Decades:

Galloway constituencies election results