Roxburghshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Roxburghshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Roxburghshire
1708–1918
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Roxburgh and Selkirk
Created from	Roxburghshire

Roxburghshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (also at Westminster) from 1801 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

Boundaries

The name relates the constituency to the county of Roxburgh.

When the constituency was abolished in 1918, the Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency was created, covering the counties of Roxburgh and Selkirk

Member of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party
	1708	Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Bt
	1715	William Douglas
	1722	Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Bt
	1726	Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Bt
	1727	William Douglas
	1734	John Rutherfurd
	1742	William Douglas
	1747	Walter Scott
	1765	Sir Gilbert Elliot
	1777	Sir Gilbert Elliot
	1784	Sir George Douglas
	1806	John Rutherford
	1812	Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
	1814	Sir Alexander Don
	1826	Henry Francis Hepburne-Scott
	1832	George Elliot
	1835	Lord John Douglas-Montagu-Scott
	1837	John Edmund Elliot
	1841	Francis Scott
	1847	John Edmund Elliot
	1859	Sir William Scott, Bt
	1870	The Marquess of Bowmont
	1874	Sir George Scott-Douglas
	1880	Arthur Elliot	Liberal
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	1892	Mark Francis Napier	Liberal
	1895	The Earl of Dalkeith	Conservative
	1906	John Jardine	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished

Election results

General Election 1835: Roxburghshire [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lord John Scott	757
	Liberal	Captain Elliot	681

General Election 1885: Roxburghshire [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hon Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot	3,419
	Conservative	Charles Barrington Balfour	1,945

General Election 1886: Roxburghshire [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Hon Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot	2,570
	Liberal	Hon Mark Francis Napier	2,142

General Election 1892: Roxburghshire [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hon Mark Francis Napier	2,672
	Liberal Unionist	Hon Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot	2,514

General Election 1895: Roxburghshire [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Earl of Dalkeith	2,929
	Liberal	Hon Mark Francis Napier	2,368

General Election 1900: Roxburghshire [7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Earl of Dalkeith	2,682
	Liberal	John Jardine	2,323

General Election 1906: Roxburghshire [8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Jardine	2,829	52.9
	Conservative	Sir Richard John Waldie-Griffith	2,514	47.1

General Election Jan 1910: Roxburghshire [9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Jardine	2,943
	Conservative	Lord Henry Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott	2,626

General Election Dec 1910: Roxburghshire [10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Jardine	2,908
	Conservative	Neil James Kennedy Cochran-Patrick	2,704

References

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)
2. The Spectator, 13 January 1835
3. Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
4. Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
5. Whitaker's Almanack, 1892
6. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
7. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
8. Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
9. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
10. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916