Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Stirlingshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain

Parliament of Great Britain

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and later of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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from 1708 until 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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(MP) by the first past the post voting system.

For the 1918 general election

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...

it was divided into Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire

Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire was a parliamentary constituency in the Clackmannan area of Central Scotland. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.The constituency was created for the...

and Stirling and Clackmannan Western.

Member of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1708	Henry Cunningham
	1710	Sir Hugh Paterson Sir Hugh Paterson, 2nd Baronet Sir Hugh Paterson, 2nd Baronet was a Scottish Jacobite.The son of Sir Hugh Paterson, 1st Baronet by his wife Barbara, daughter of Sir William Ruthven of Dunglass and Katherine, daughter of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas, he succeeded his father as second Baronet, of Bannockburn, on 21...
	1715	Mungo Haldane
	1722	John Graham
	1727	Henry Cunningham
	1734	Sir James Campbell Sir James Campbell, 2nd Baronet, of Ardkinglass Sir James Campbell, 2nd Baronet of Ardkinglass, was a British Member of Parliament and the son of Sir Colin Campbell, 1st Baronet of Ardkinglass.-Biography:...
	1741	Lord George Graham
	1747	Lord Erskine Thomas Erskine, Lord Erskine Thomas Erskine, Lord Erskine was the son of John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar. He could not inherit the title of Earl of Mar due to the Writ of Attainder for treason passed against his father in 1716 for his role in the First Jacobite Rebellion .On 1 October 1741, he married Charlotte Hope, daughter...
	1747	James Campbell, later Livingstone
	1768	Sir Thomas Dundas Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas FRS , known as Sir Thomas Dundas, 2nd Baronet, from 1781 to 1794, was a powerful figure in the Kingdom of Great Britain, now remembered for commissioning the Charlotte Dundas, the world's "first practical steamboat".-Biography:Thomas was the only son of Sir Lawrence...
	1794	Robert Graham
	1796	Sir George Keith Elphinstone George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith was a British admiral active throughout the Napoleonic Wars.-Career:Fifth son of the 10th Lord Elphinstone, he was born in Elphinstone Tower, near Stirling, Scotland...
	1802	Charles Elphinstone Fleeming Charles Elphinstone Fleeming Admiral Charles Elphinstone Fleeming was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He commanded a succession of smaller vessels during the early years of the wars, achieving some successes against French cruisers, merchants and privateers, before...
	1812	Sir Charles Edmonstone Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2nd Baronet Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2nd Baronet , also 12th of Duntreath, was a Scottish politician.Edmonstone was the third son of Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Eton College and subsequently at Christ Church, Oxford. Having been called to the Bar, he was one of the six clerks in...
	1821	Henry Home-Drummond Henry Home-Drummond Henry Home-Drummond was a Scottish politician.Home-Drummond was called to the Scottish Bar in 1808, and later served as Vice-Lieutenant of Perthshire...
	1831	William Ramsay Ramsay
	1832	Charles Elphinstone Fleeming Charles Elphinstone Fleeming Admiral Charles Elphinstone Fleeming was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He commanded a succession of smaller vessels during the early years of the wars, achieving some successes against French cruisers, merchants and privateers, before...
	1835	William Forbes
	1838	George Abercromby George Abercromby, 3rd Baron Abercromby George Ralph Campbell Abercromby, 3rd Baron Abercromby was a Scottish soldier, politician and peer. The son of George Abercromby, 2nd Baron Abercromby and Hon. Montague Dundas, on his death in 1852 he was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son.-Career:He was commissioned into the 51st Foot...
	1841	William Forbes
	1855	Peter Blackburn
	1865	John Elphinstone Erskine
	1874	Sir William Edmonstone Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet Admiral Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet CB, DL , also 14th of Duntreath, was a Scottish naval commander, courtier and politician....
	1880	Joseph Cheney Bolton Joseph Cheney Bolton Joseph Cheney Bolton was a Scottish merchant and a Liberal Party politician.Bolton was a partner in the firm of Ker, Bolton, & Co., East India merchants, of Glasgow and London. He was a J.P. for Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire....	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...
	1892	William Jacks William Jacks William Jacks was a British ironmaster, author and Liberal politician-Early life:Jacks was born at Cornhill-on-Tweed, near Coldstream, Northumberland the son Richard Jacks, a farmer and land steward, and his wife, Mary Lamb...	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...
	1895	James McKillop James McKillop James McKillop was Unionist MP for Stirlingshire .He was first elected in 1895, re-elected in 1900, but stood down in 1906.- References :... Conservative	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...
	1906	Donald Mackenzie Smeaton Donald Mackenzie Smeaton David Mackenzie Smeaton was Liberal MP for Stirlingshire .He was elected in 1906, but stood down in January 1910.- External links :*... Liberal	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...
	1910	William Allan Chapple	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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