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.
Key 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 |
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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 |
Notes:
A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
Before 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.
Constituency | 1832 | 33 | 34 | 1835 | 35 | 1837 | 38 | 40 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 |
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Orkney & Shetland | Traill | Balfour | Dundas | Anderson | F. Dundas | |||||||
Caithness | G. Sinclair | Traill | ||||||||||
Wick Burghs | J. Loch | Laing | Hay | |||||||||
Sutherland | Macleod | Howard | D. Dundas | G. Sutherland-Leveson-Gower | ||||||||
Ross & Cromarty | Stewart-Mackenzie | Mackenzie | J. Matheson | |||||||||
Inverness Burghs | J. Baillie | Cumming Bruce | → | Macleod | Morrison | A. Matheson | ||||||
Inverness-shire | C. Grant | Chisholm | F. Grant | Baillie |
Conservative Independent Liberal Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 1892 | 94 | 95 | 1895 | 96 | 1900 | 02 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 17 |
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Orkney and Shetland | Lyell | Wason | → | → | |||||||||||
Caithness | Clark* | →* | Harmsworth | ||||||||||||
Wick Burghs | Cameron | → | Pender | Hedderwick | Bignold | Munro | |||||||||
Sutherland | Sutherland-Leveson-Gower | Sutherland | MacLeod* | Leveson-Gower | Morton | ||||||||||
Ross and Cromarty | Macdonald* | →* | Weir | Macpherson | |||||||||||
Inverness Burghs | Finlay | → | Beith | Finlay | Bryce | ||||||||||
Inverness-shire | Fraser-Mackintosh* | →* | MacGregor* | Baillie | Dewar | Morison |
*also the candidate of the Crofters' Party
Coalition 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 |
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Orkney and Shetland | Wason | Smith | Hamilton | Neven-Spence | ||||||||||
Caithness and Sutherland | Harmsworth | Sinclair | → | Dower | → | |||||||||
Inverness | Morison | Macdonald | → | → | → | |||||||||
Ross and Cromarty | Macpherson | → | → | MacDonald | MacLeod | |||||||||
Western Isles | Murray | Cotts | Livingstone | Ramsay | → | Macmillan |
Conservative 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 |
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Orkney and Shetland | Grimond | |||||||||||
Caithness and Sutherland | Robertson | → | Mackie | Maclennan | → | |||||||
Inverness | Douglas-Hamilton | McLean | Johnston | |||||||||
Ross and Cromarty | MacLeod | → | Mackenzie | Gray | ||||||||
Western Isles | Macmillan | Stewart |
Independent Labour Liberal Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Social Democratic
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 88 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 23 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Orkney and Shetland | Wallace | → | Carmichael | |||||||||
Caithness and Sutherland / Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (1997) | Maclennan | → | Thurso | Monaghan | Stone | |||||||
Inverness, Nairn & Lochaber / Inv East, Nairn & Lochaber (1997) / Inv, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey (2005) | Johnston | → | Stewart | Alexander | Hendry | |||||||
Ross, Cromarty and Skye / Ross, Skye and Inverness West (1997) / Ross, Skye and Lochaber (2005) | Kennedy | → | Blackford | |||||||||
Western Isles / Na h-Eileanan an Iar (2005) | Stewart | MacDonald | MacNeil | → |
Before 1974 comprising the counties of Elginshire, Nairnshire, Banffshire, Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire.
After 1996 comprising the unitary authorities of Aberdeenshire, City of Aberdeen and Moray.
Conservative Party Independent Liberal Party Tories Whig Party
Constituency | 1832 | 1835 | 1837 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 | 1859 | 1865 | 1868 | 1874 | 1880 |
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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 |
Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 89 | 1892 | 92 | 93 | 1895 | 96 | 1900 | 05 | 1906 | 06 | 07 | 08 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 17 | 18 |
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Banffshire | Duff | Wedderburn | Black | Waring | ||||||||||||||
Elgin Burghs | Asher | Sutherland | Barrie | |||||||||||||||
Elginshire and Nairnshire | Macpherson-Grant | Anderson | Keay | Gordon | Williamson | |||||||||||||
Aberdeen North | Hunter | Pirie | ||||||||||||||||
Aberdeen South | Bryce | Esslemont | Fleming | |||||||||||||||
Aberdeenshire East | Esslemont | Buchanan | Maconochie | Annand | J. Murray | Cowan | ||||||||||||
Aberdeenshire West | Farquharson | Henderson | ||||||||||||||||
Kincardineshire | Balfour | Crombie | A. Murray |
Coalition 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 |
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Banff | Barrie | → | Templeton | Wood | Findlay | Duthie | ||||||||
Moray and Nairn | Williamson | Guthrie | Stuart | |||||||||||
Aberdeen North | Rose | Benn | Burnett | Garro-Jones | H. Hughes | |||||||||
Aberdeen South | F. Thomson | D. Thomson | Buchan | |||||||||||
East Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire | Cowan | Martin | Boothby | |||||||||||
Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine | Murray | → | Barclay-Harvey | Scott | Barclay-Harvey | Thornton-Kemsley | ||||||||
Aberdeen and Kincardine Central | Gordon | Wood | Smith | Spence |
Conservative Labour Liberal Scottish National Party
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 58 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 1979 |
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Banff | Duthie | Baker | Watt | Myles | |||||||
Moray and Nairn | Stuart | Campbell | W. Ewing | Pollock | |||||||
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 |
Conservative Labour Liberal Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 88 | 91 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aberdeen Central | Doran | |||||||||||
Aberdeen North | R. Hughes | Savidge | Doran | Blackman | ||||||||
Aberdeen South | Malone | Doran | Robertson | Begg | McCaig | R. Thomson | Flynn | |||||
Gordon | Bruce | → | Salmond | Clark | R. G. Thomson | |||||||
Kincardine and Deeside / W Aberdeenshire & K (1997) | Buchanan-Smith | Stephen | Kynoch | Smith | Donaldson | Bowie | ||||||
Banff and Buchan | McQuarrie | Salmond | Whiteford | Duguid | ||||||||
Moray | Pollock | M. Ewing | Robertson | Ross |
Before 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.
Conservative 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 |
Conservative 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 |
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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 and Kinross-shire | Balfour | Wason | ||||||||||||||||||
Falkirk Burghs | Ramsay | Sinclair | Smith | Wilson | Macdonald | |||||||||||||||
Stirling Burghs | Campbell-Bannerman | Ponsonby | ||||||||||||||||||
Stirlingshire | Bolton | Jacks | McKillop | Smeaton | Chapple |
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Independent Independent Liberal Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68) Scottish Prohibition
Conservative 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 |
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Dundee East | Cook | Thomson | Machin | Wilson | ||||||||||
Dundee West | Strachey | Doig | Ross | |||||||||||
Angus North and Mearns | Thornton-Kemsley | Buchanan-Smith | ||||||||||||
Angus South | Duncan | Bruce-Gardyne | Welsh | Fraser | ||||||||||
Perth and East Perthshire | Gomme-Duncan | MacArthur | Crawford | Walker | ||||||||||
Kinross and West Perthshire | Snadden | Leburn | Douglas-Home | Fairbairn | ||||||||||
Stirling and Falkirk / & Grangemouth (1974) | MacPherson | Ewing | ||||||||||||
Stirlingshire East and Clackmannan | Woodburn | Douglas | Reid | O'Neill | ||||||||||
Stirlingshire West | Balfour | Baxter | Canavan |
Conservative Independent Labour Scottish National Party
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 95 | 1997 | 00 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 12 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Falkirk East | Ewing | Connarty | |||||||||||
Dundee West | Ross | McGovern | Law | ||||||||||
Falkirk West / Falkirk (2005) | Canavan | Joyce | → | McNally | |||||||||
Dundee East | Wilson | McAllion | Luke | Hosie | |||||||||
North Tayside / Perth and North Perthshire (2005) | Walker | Swinney | Wishart | ||||||||||
Angus East / Angus (1997) | Fraser | Welsh | Weir | Hair | Doogan | ||||||||
Stirling | Forsyth | McGuire | Paterson | Kerr | Smith | ||||||||
Clackmannan / Ochil (1997) / Ochil & S Perthshire (2005) | O'Neill | Banks | Ahmed-Sheikh | Graham | Nicolson | ||||||||
Perth and Kinross / Perth (1997) | Fairbairn | Cunningham | Ewing |
Constituency | 1832 | 1835 | 1837 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 | 1859 | 1865 | 1868 | 1874 | 1880 |
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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 |
Conservative 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 | → |
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Communist Conservative Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68)
Constituency | 1918 | 21 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 33 | 1935 | 44 | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 61 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 |
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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 |
Alba Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Liberal Scottish National Party
Constituency | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 88 | 90 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 06 | 08 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
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Dunfermline East | Brown | |||||||||||||||||||
Dunfermline / Dunfermline W (1983) / Dunf & W Fife (2005) | Hunter | Douglas | → | Squire | Rennie | Docherty | Chapman | |||||||||||||
Fife Central / Glenrothes (2005) | Hamilton | McLeish | MacDougall | Roy | Grant | |||||||||||||||
Kirkcaldy / Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (2005) | Gourlay | Moonie | Brown | Mullin | Laird | Hanvey | → | → | → | |||||||||||
Fife East / North East Fife (1983) | Gilmour | Henderson | Campbell | → | Gethins | Chamberlain |
Before 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.
Constituency | 1832 | 1835 | 1837 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 | 1859 | 1865 | 1868 | 1874 | 1880 |
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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 |
Conservative Independent Liberal Labour Liberal Liberal Unionist National Democratic & Labour
Coalition 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
Conservative Labour National Liberal (1931-68) Scottish Labour Scottish National Party Social Democratic
Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Liberal Democrats Respect Scottish National Party Social Democratic Speaker
Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Speaker
Before 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.
Constituency | 1832 | 1835 | 1837 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 | 1859 | 1865 | 1868 | 1874 | 1880 |
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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 |
Conservative 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 |
Conservative 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 |
Constituency | 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 (1955) | Pryde | Hill | Eadie | |||||||||||||
West Lothian | Mathers | Taylor | Dalyell | |||||||||||||
Edinburgh East | Wheatley | Willis | Strang |
Alba Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 05 | 2010 | 2015 | 15 | 2017 | 2019 | 21 |
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Linlithgow / Linlithgow & E Falkirk (2005-) | Dalyell | Connarty | Day | ||||||||||
Edinburgh E (1983–97, 2005-) / & Musselburgh (1997-2005) | Strang | Gilmore | Sheppard | ||||||||||
Edinburgh Leith / Edinburgh North and Leith (1997) | Brown | Chisholm | Lazarowicz | Brock | |||||||||
Livingston | Cook | Devine | Morrice | Bardell | |||||||||
Edinburgh Pentlands / Edinburgh SW (2005) | Rifkind | Clark | Darling | Cherry | |||||||||
Midlothian | Eadie | Clarke | Hamilton | Thompson | Rowley | Thompson | |||||||
East Lothian | Robertson | Picking | O'Donnell | Kerevan | Whitfield | MacAskill | → | ||||||
Edinburgh West | Douglas-Hamilton | Gorrie | Barrett | Crockart | Thomson | → | Jardine | ||||||
Edinburgh South | Ancram | Griffiths | Murray | ||||||||||
Edinburgh Central | Fletcher | Darling |
Before 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.
Constituency | 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 |
Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 1892 | 94 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | 09 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 15 |
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Dumfries Burghs | Noel | Reid | Gulland | |||||||||
Dumfriesshire | Jardine | → | Maxwell | Souttar | Maxwell | Molteno | ||||||
Kirkcudbright Stewartry | McTaggart-Stewart | McMicking | McTaggart-Stewart | McMicking | ||||||||
Wigtownshire | Maxwell | J. Dalrymple | H. Dalrymple | |||||||||
Hawick Burghs | Trevelyan | → | Brown | Shaw | Barran | |||||||
Peeblesshire and Selkirkshire | Tennant | Thorburn | Murray | Younger | Maclean | |||||||
Roxburghshire | Elliot | → | Napier | Montagu-Douglas-Scott | Jardine | |||||||
Berwickshire | Marjoribanks | Tennant |
Coalition 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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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 | |||||||||
Berwick & Haddington | Hope | Waring | Spence | Crookshank | Sinkinson | McEwen | Robertson |
Conservative Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931-68) Scottish National Party
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 59 | 1959 | 63 | 1964 | 65 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 78 | 1979 |
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Dumfries | Macpherson | Anderson | Monro | |||||||||||
Galloway | Mackie | Brewis | Thompson | Lang | ||||||||||
Roxburgh & Selkirk / & Peebles (1955) | Macdonald | Donaldson | Steel | |||||||||||
Berwick & East Lothian | Robertson | Anstruther-Gray | Mackintosh | Ancram | Mackintosh | Robertson |
Conservative Labour Liberal Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 88 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Dumfriesshire / Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale (partially in Strathclyde) | Monro | Brown | Mundell | ||||||||
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale / Dumfries and Galloway (2005) | Lang | Morgan | Duncan | Brown | Arkless | Jack | |||||
Roxburgh and Berwickshire / Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (2005) | Kirkwood | → | Moore | Kerr | Lamont | ||||||
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (partially in Lothian 1997–2005) | Steel | → | Moore |
Constituency | 1832 | 1835 | 1837 | 1841 | 1847 | 1852 | 1857 | 1859 | 1865 | 1868 | 1874 | 1880 |
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Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities | Liberal | Liberal | Liberal | |||||||||
Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities | Liberal | Conservative | Conservative |
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