Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the shire of Linlithgow elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the Estates.
From 1708 Linlithgowshire was represented by one Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Great Britain.
List of shire commissioners
1628–29: Thomas Dalyell of Binns 1629: Robert Hamilton of Bathgate 1628-33: Sir Walter Dundas of that Ilk 1628–1633, 1630 (convention), 1639: William Drummond of Riccarton 1639–41, 1643–44, 1650: George Dundas of that Ilk 1640–41: Sir John Stirling of Garden 1643–44: Cochran of Barbachla 1644, 1644–47: Samuel Drummond of Carlowrie 1644, 1644–47, 1648: Laird of Maner (George Dundas) 1645–46: Laird of Boighall (Hamilton) 1646–47, 1648: Laird of Binning (Hamilton) 1649: William Sandilands of Hilderston 1649–50: George Dundas of Duddingston 1661–63, 1667 (convention): Sir Archibald Stirling of Garden, Lord Garden, Senator of College of Justice 1661, 1685–86, 1689 (convention), 1689–98: Thomas Drummond of Riccarton (died c.1699) 1665 (convention), 1667 (convention), 1669–74: Sir Walter Seton of AbercornG. E. C., The Complete Baronetage, volume III (1903) p. 338. 1669-74: James Dundas of Morton 1678 (convention), 1681–82, 1685–85 Tam Dalyell of the Binns (died 1685) 1678 (convention): William Sharp of Houston 1681–82: John Hope of Hopeton 1686, 1689 (convention), 1689–1701, 1702–03: Patrick Murray of Livingston (died c.1703) 1700–02, 1703–07: Thomas Sharp of Houston 1702–03: Charles Hope of Hopeton (died c.1703) 1704–07: John Montgomerie of Wrae
References
See also List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union