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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1868–1918
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
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(June 2008 )
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 1860s
Elections in the 1870s
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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
References
Aberdeen North
Aberdeen South
Airdrie & Shotts
Angus
Argyll & Bute
Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock
Banff & Buchan
Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk
Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross
Central Ayrshire
Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East
Dumfries & Galloway
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale
Dundee East
Dundee West
Dunfermline & West Fife
East Dunbartonshire
East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow
East Lothian
East Renfrewshire
Edinburgh East
Edinburgh North & Leith
Edinburgh South
Edinburgh South West
Edinburgh West
Falkirk
Glasgow Central
Glasgow East
Glasgow North
Glasgow North East
Glasgow North West
Glasgow South
Glasgow South West
Glenrothes
Gordon
Inverclyde
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey
Kilmarnock & Loudoun
Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath
Lanark & Hamilton East
Linlithgow & East Falkirk
Livingston
Midlothian
Moray
Motherwell & Wishaw
Na h-Eileanan an Iar
North Ayrshire & Arran
North East Fife
Ochil & South Perthshire
Orkney & Shetland
Paisley & Renfrewshire North
Paisley & Renfrewshire South
Perth & North Perthshire
Ross, Skye & Lochaber
Rutherglen & Hamilton West
Stirling
West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine
West Dunbartonshire