Lanark Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

Lanark Burghs
Former District of burghs constituency for the House of Commons
Major settlements	Linlithgow in the county of Linlithgow, Lanark, Peebles, Selkirk
1708–1832
Number of members	One
Created from	Lanark, Linlithgow, Peebles, Selkirk

Lanark Burghs (also known as Linlithgow Burghs) was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1832, representing a seat for one Member of Parliament (MP).

There was also a later Lanark county constituency, from 1918 to 1983.

Boundaries

The constituency covered four burghs: Linlithgow in the county of Linlithgow, Lanark in the county of Lanark, Peebles in the county of Peebles, and Selkirk in the county of Selkirk.

For the 1832 general election, as a result of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832, Peebles was merged into the county constituency of Peeblesshire, Selkirk was merged into the county constituency of Selkirkshire, and the remaining burghs were combined with Airdrie and Hamilton, both in the county of Lanark, to form Falkirk Burghs. At the same time, however, the boundaries of burghs for parliamentary election purposes ceased be necessarily those for other purposes.

Member of Parliament

Election	Member	Party
1708	Hon. George Douglas
1713	Sir James Carmichael, Bt
1715	Hon. George Douglas
1722	Daniel Weir
1725 by-election	John Murray
1734	James Carmichael
1742	John Mackye
1747	Lawrence Dundas
1748	James Carmichael
1754	John Murray
1761	John Lockhart-Ross
1768 by-election	James Dickson
1772 by-election	Sir James Cockburn, Bt
1784	Sir John Moore
1790	William Grieve
1796	Viscount Stopford
1802	William Dickson
1806	Sir Charles Lockhart-Ross, Bt
1807	William Maxwell
1812	Sir John Buchanan Riddell, Bt
1819 by-election	John Pringle
1820	Henry Monteith	Tory
1826	Adam Hay	Tory
1830	Henry Monteith	Tory
1831	William Downe Gillon	Whig
1832	constituency abolished

Elections in the 1830s

General Election 1831: Lanark Burghs

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Downe Gillon	3
		James Johnstone	1

General Election 1830: Lanark Burghs

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Henry Monteith	3
	Whig	William Downe Gillon	1

Elections in the 1820s

General Election 1826: Lanark Burghs

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Adam Hay	3
	Tory	Henry Monteith	1

General Election 1820: Lanark Burghs

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Henry Monteith	3
	Independent socialist	Robert Owen	1

Notes and references

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)