Lanarkshire was a Scottish county constituency of Great Britain and after 1801 the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1708 to 1868. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Creation The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland shire constituency of Lanarkshire.
Boundaries The constituency covered the whole of the Scottish county of Lanarkshire, apart from the Lanark Burghs.
History The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system until it was abolished for the 1868 general election.
In 1868 the constituency was replaced by the new constituencies of North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire.
Members of Parliament YearMemberParty1708Lord Archibald HamiltonWhig1710Sir James Hamilton of Rosehall17131715James Lockhart1718Lord Archibald HamiltonWhig172217271734Lord William Hamilton1735Sir James Hamilton of Rosehall174117471750 Patrick Stuart1754James VerePro-Administration Whig1760Daniel Campbell17611768John Lockhart-Ross1774Andrew Stuart17801784Sir James Denham-Steuart, BtPittite1790179618011802Lord Archibald HamiltonWhig1806180718121818182018261827 Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart of Greenock and Blackhall Whig1830Charles Douglas, 1st Baron DouglasTory18311832Sir John Maxwell of PollokWhig18351837Alexander Macdonald LockhartConservative1841William LockhartConservative184718521857Alexander Baillie-CochraneConservative1857Sir Thomas Colebrooke Whig1859Liberal1865
Election results Elections in the 1830s
Elections in the 1840s
Elections in the 1850s
Lockhart's death caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1860s
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