Sutherland (UK Parliament constituency)
Sutherland | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Subdivisions of Scotland | Sutherland |
1708–1918 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Caithness & Sutherland |
Created from | Sutherland |
Sutherland was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It represented essentially the traditional county of Sutherland, electing one Member of Parliament (MP). The county town of Dornoch, however, was represented as a component of the Tain Burghs constituency, from 1708 to 1832, and of the Wick Burghs constituency, from 1832 to 1918.
In 1918 the Sutherland constituency and Dornoch were merged into the then new constituency of Caithness and Sutherland. In 1997 Caithness and Sutherland was merged into Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.
Contents
Members of Parliament
Election | Member [1] | Party | |
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1708 | Sir William Gordon | ||
1713 | William Morison | ||
1714 | Sir William Gordon | ||
1727 | Lord Strathnaver | ||
1734 | Sir James Fergusson | ||
1736 | Hon. James St Clair | ||
1747 | Hon. George Mackay | ||
1761 | Hon. Alexander Mackay | ||
1768 | James Wemyss | ||
1784 | William Wemyss | Pittite | |
1787 | James Grant | ||
1802 | William Dundas | Tory | |
1808 | John Randoll Mackenzie | ||
1809 | George Macpherson-Grant | ||
1812 | James Macdonald | Whig | |
1816 | George Macpherson-Grant | ||
1826 | Lord Francis Leveson-Gower | Tory | |
1831 | Sir Hugh Innes | Whig | |
1831 by-election | Roderick Macleod | Whig | |
1837 | Hon. William Howard | Conservative | |
1840 by-election | Sir David Dundas | Liberal | |
1852 | Marquess of Stafford | Liberal | |
1861 by-election | Sir David Dundas | Liberal | |
1867 by-election | Lord Ronald Gower | Liberal | |
1874 | Marquess of Stafford | Liberal | |
1886 | Angus Sutherland | Liberal/Crofter | |
1894 by-election | John MacLeod | Liberal/Crofter | |
1900 | Frederick Leveson-Gower | Liberal Unionist | |
1906 | Alpheus Cleophas Morton | Liberal | |
1918 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Marquess of Stafford | 1,071 | 61.7 | ||
Independent Liberal | 1,058 | 38.3 | |||
Majority | 643 | 23.4 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
- backed by the Crofters
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | 1,463 | 71.5 | n/a | ||
Liberal Unionist | Ralph Wardlaw McLeod Fullarton | 583 | 28.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 880 | 43.0 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 64.2 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a |
- backed by the Crofters
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | 1,453 | 70.5 | |||
Liberal Unionist | John MacKay | 607 | 29.5 | ||
Majority | 846 | 41.0 | |||
Turnout | 75.0 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
- backed by the Crofters
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | unopposed | n/a | n/a | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a |
- backed by the Crofters
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John MacLeod | 1,085 | 64.8 | n/a | |
Liberal Unionist | John Alexander Swanston | 590 | 35.2 | n/a | |
Majority | 495 | 29.6 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 67.2 | n/a | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Frederick Neville Sutherland Leveson-Gower | 1,224 | 61.9 | +26.7 | |
Liberal | John MacLeod | 752 | 38.1 | -26.7 | |
Majority | 472 | 23.8 | 53.4 | ||
Turnout | 76.3 | +9.1 | |||
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +26.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Alpheus Cleophas Morton | 1,383 | 59.7 | +21.6 | |
Liberal Unionist | Frederick Neville Sutherland Leveson-Gower | 933 | 40.3 | -21.6 | |
Majority | 450 | 19.4 | 43.2 | ||
Turnout | 82.3 | ||||
Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist | Swing | +21.6 |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Alpheus Cleophas Morton | 1,607 | 62.8 | +3.1 | |
Conservative | Donald Walter Cameron | 951 | 37.2 | -3.1 | |
Majority | 656 | 25.6 | +6.2 | ||
Turnout | 83.7 | +1.4 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | +3.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Alpheus Cleophas Morton | 1,464 | |||
Liberal Unionist | Marquess of Stafford | 1,277 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
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 the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: Alpheus Cleophas Morton
- Unionist: Theodore Gervase Chambers[11]
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
- ↑ Aberdeen Journal 13 Apr 1914
See also
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Pages with broken file links
- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- Sutherland
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1918
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1708