North Ayrshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1918. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.
Boundaries
The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 provided that the new North Ayrshire constituency was to consist of the District of Cunningham, consisting of the parishes of Ardrossan, Dalry, Dreghorn, Fenwick, Irvine, Kilbirnie, Kilmarnock, Kilmaurs, Kilwinning, Largs, Loudoun, Stevenston, Stewarton, West Kilbride and Beith, and the parish of Dunlop so far as situated within the County of Ayr.
Members of Parliament Election Member Party1868 William Finnie Liberal1874 Roger Montgomerie Conservative1880 Robert Cochran-Patrick Conservative1885 Hugh Elliot Liberal1886 Liberal Unionist1892 Thomas Cochrane Liberal Unionist1910 Andrew Anderson Liberal1911 Duncan Campbell Unionist1916 Aylmer Hunter-Weston Unionist 1918 constituency abolished
Election results Elections in the 1860s
Elections in the 1870s
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
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; Unionist: Duncan Campbell Liberal: Andrew Anderson
Chalmers was supported by the Union of Democratic Control and contested the 1918 general election as a Labour Party candidate.
See also Former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
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