Haddingtonshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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Haddingtonshire was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...

 from 1708 until 1918.

Boundaries

The constituency was created in 1708 and encompassed the county of Haddingtonshire, with the exception, until 1885, of 3 towns (Haddington, Dunbar and North Berwick) which formed part of the separate constituency of Haddington Burghs. In 1918 it was amalgamated with neighbouring Berwickshire
Berwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Berwickshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1918, when it was amalgamated with neighbouring Haddington to form a new Berwick and Haddington constituency...

 to form a new Berwick and Haddington constituency. It elected one Member of Parliament
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 (MP), using the first-past-the-post
First-past-the-post
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 voting system.

Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1708 John Cockburn
1741 Lord Charles Hay
1747 Sir Hew Dalrymple
Sir Hew Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet
Sir Hew Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet MP for Haddington Burghs 1742-1747 and 1761-1768 and Haddingtonshire 1747-1761.Son of Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick...

1761 Andrew Fletcher
1768 Sir George Suttie
1777 William Hamilton Nisbet
William Hamilton Nisbet
William Hamilton Nisbet was a British politician.On 31 January 1777, he married Mary Manners, daughter of Lord Robert Manners. They had one child:...

1780 Hew Dalrymple
Sir Hew Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet
Sir Hew Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet was the Member of Parliament for Haddingtonshire 1780-1786.He was the son of Sir Hew Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet....

1786 John Hamilton
1795 Hew Dalrymple-Hamilton
Sir Hew Dalrymple-Hamilton, 4th Baronet
Sir Hew Dalrymple Hamilton, 4th Baronet was a British politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Haddingtonshire 1795-1800, Ayrshire 1803-1807 and 1811-1818 and Haddington Burghs 1820-1826.He was the son of Sir Hew Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet....

1800 Charles Hope
Charles Hope (British Army officer)
Charles Hope was a British Major General and politician.On 12 May 1800, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Haddingtonshire. He resigned from Parliament in 21 March 1816, accepting the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.-References:...

1816 Sir James Suttie
1826 Lord John Hay
1831 James Balfour
1835 Robert Ferguson
Robert Ferguson of Raith
Robert Ferguson of Raith, was at various times a Whig Member of Parliament for Fifeshire, Haddingtonshire and Kirkcaldy Burghs, and at the time of his death he was Lord Lieutenant of the county of Fife.-Biography:...

1837 Lord Ramsay
James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie
James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie KT, PC was a Scottish statesman, and a colonial administrator in British India....

1838 Sir Thomas Buchan-Hepburn
1847 Francis Charteris
Francis Charteris, 10th Earl of Wemyss
Francis Richard Charteris, 10th Earl of Wemyss GCVO , styled as Lord Elcho between 1853 and 1883, was a British Whig politician...

 (styled Lord Elcho from 1853)
1883 Lord Elcho
Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss
Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss and 7th Earl of March , styled Lord Elcho from 1883 to 1914, was a Scottish Conservative politician....

Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

1885 Richard Burdon Haldane
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane KT, OM, PC, KC, FRS, FBA, FSA , was an influential British Liberal Imperialist and later Labour politician, lawyer and philosopher. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" were implemented...

Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

1911 John Deans Hope
John Deans Hope
John Deans Hope was a Scottish Liberal politician.-Family and education:Hope was born in Duddington, Midlothian, the son of the late James Hope of Eastbarns, Dunbar, a famous agriculturalist. In 1899 he married Elizabeth Holmes-Kerr whose father had homes in Glasgow and Underbank in Ayrshire. They...

Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

1918
United Kingdom general election, 1918
The United Kingdom general election of 1918 was the first to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918, which meant it was the first United Kingdom general election in which nearly all adult men and some women could vote. Polling was held on 14 December 1918, although the count did...

constituency abolished

Election results

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