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.
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A similar constituency had been known as Tain Burghs from 1708 to 1832.
The constituency was a district of burghs representing the parliamentary burghs of Cromarty , Dingwall , Dornoch , Kirkwall , Tain and Wick .[1] Apart from Cromarty, these burghs had been previously components of Tain Burghs.[2] 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 .[3] [4]
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.
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Elections in the 1830s
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Laing resigned after being appointed a member of the Council of India , causing a by-election.
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Loch resigned, causing a by-election.
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Pender's resignation caused a by-election.
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Munro
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For the burghs included see Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 and 1885-1918 .
For the burghs included in Tain Burghs (and the pre-1832 franchise) see Namier and Brooke, The House of Commons, 1754-1790 .
For the boundary changes in 1918 see Craig, Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972 .
Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1870
Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
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)