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Wick Burghs, sometimes known as Northern Burghs, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

A similar constituency had been known as Tain Burghs from 1708 to 1832.

Boundaries

The constituency was a district of burghs representing the parliamentary burghs of Cromarty, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick. Apart from Cromarty, these burghs had been previously components of Tain Burghs. In 1918 Dornoch and Wick were merged into Caithness and Sutherland, Kirkwall into Orkney and Shetland and Cromarty, Dingwall and Tain into Ross and Cromarty. The first election in Wick Burghs was in 1832. The franchise was extended to wider groups of the population than under the old system of burgh councillors electing a burgh commissioner to participate in the election. From 1832 the votes from each burgh were added together to establish the result.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

Elections in the 1840s

Elections in the 1850s

Elections in the 1860s

Laing resigned after being appointed a member of the Council of India, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1870s

Loch resigned, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1880s

• Cameron was supported by the Highland Land League, and ally of the Crofter MPs.

Elections in the 1890s

Pender's resignation caused a by-election.

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

See also

• List of former Parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom

Notes and references

1. For the burghs included see Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 and 1885-1918.
2. For the burghs included in Tain Burghs (and the pre-1832 franchise) see Namier and Brooke, The House of Commons, 1754-1790.
3. For the boundary changes in 1918 see Craig, Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972.
4. Representation of the People Act 1918, Ninth Schedule - Parliamentary Counties, Scotland
5. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)
6. ^ Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 212. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
7. Churton, Edward (1838). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1838. p. 146. Retrieved 5 September 2018 – via Google Books.
8. "The Chartist Conservative Creed". The Atlas. 17 July 1841. p. 3. Retrieved 5 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
9. "The Forthcoming Scottish Elections". Fife Herald. 8 July 1852. p. 1. Retrieved 5 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
10. Searby, Peter (1997). A History of the University of Cambridge. Volume III: 1750-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 116. ISBN 0-521-35060-3. Retrieved 5 September 2018 – via Google Books.
11. "Banffshire Journal and General Advertiser". 7 April 1857. p. 5. Retrieved 5 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
12. ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 550. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
13. "Northern Burghs Election". John o'Groat Journal. 10 April 1857. p. 3. Retrieved 5 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
14. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1870
15. "Election Intelligence". Manchester Evening News. 6 February 1872. p. 2. Retrieved 23 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
16. "Wick Burghs Election". Cork Constitution. 26 February 1872. p. 3. Retrieved 23 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
17. "To the Electors". The Inverness Courier. 12 February 1874. p. 1. Retrieved 23 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
18. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
19. ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. p. 521. ISBN 9781349022984.
20. "The Political Contest". John O'Groat Journal. 30 June 1886. p. 4. Retrieved 14 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
21. Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
22. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
23. Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
24. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916

Sources

• The House of Commons 1754-1790, by Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke (HMSO 1964)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1997)
• Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833-1987, compiled and edited by F. W. S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1987)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)
• Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889 (for 1885 and 1886 results)
• Whitaker's Almanack, 1907 (for 1906 results)

• Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1832
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1918
• Politics of the county of Caithness
• Politics of the county of Cromarty
• Politics of Orkney
• Politics of the county of Ross
• Politics of the county of Ross and Cromarty
• Politics of the county of Sutherland