- Source: Linlithgowshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Linlithgowshire was a Scottish county constituency of Great Britain and after 1801 the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system. It was replaced in 1950 by an equivalent constituency named West Lothian.
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 Linlithgowshire.
History
The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system until 1950.
For the 1950 general election, the constituency was abolished and replaced by West Lothian.
Members of Parliament
Election results
= Elections in the 1830s
=Hope resigned, causing a by-election.
= Elections in the 1840s
=Hope was appointed a commissioner of Greenwich Hospital, London, requiring a by-election.
Hope resigned after being appointed Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, causing a by-election.
= Elections in the 1850s
=Dundas resigned upon his appointment as Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island, causing a by-election.
= 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;
Liberal: John Pratt
Unionist: James Kidd
Labour: (George Dallas ?)
= Elections in the 1920s
== Elections in the 1930s
== Election in the 1940s
=References
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 3)
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- Linlithgowshire (UK Parliament constituency)
- Scottish Westminster constituencies 1708 to 1832
- West Lothian (UK Parliament constituency)
- Edinburgh Central (UK Parliament constituency)
- List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies (1918–1945) by region
- List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies (1801–1832)
- List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies (1885–1918)
- Stirling Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)
- List of Great Britain and UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland from 1707
- Falkirk Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)
