Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918.

Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Clackmannanshire, Kinross-shire
1832–1918
Seats	One
Created from	Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire
Replaced by	Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire Kinross & Western Perthshire

From 1708 to 1832 Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire had been paired as alternating constituencies: one of the constituencies elected a Member of Parliament (MP) to one parliament, the other to the next.

From 1832, the two were joined by the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832 in a single constituency of Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire. The constituency also included the parishes of Tulliallan, Culross and Muckhart in Perthshire, the Perthshire portions of the parishes of Logie and Fossaway, and the Stirlingshire part of the parish of Alva.

From 1918, Clackmannanshire was represented as part of Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire, and Kinross-shire as part of Kinross and Western Perthshire.

Members of Parliament

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Election		Member ^[1]	Party
	1832	Sir Charles Adam	Whig^[2]^[3]
	1841	George Abercromby	Whig^[2]^[4]
	1842 by-election	Sir William Morison	Whig^[5]
	1851 by-election	James Johnstone	Peelite^[6]^[7]
	1857	Viscount Melgund	Whig^[8]^[9]
	1859	Sir William Patrick Adam	Liberal
	1880 by-election	John Balfour	Liberal
	1899 by-election	Eugene Wason	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished

Elections in the 1830s

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Adam was appointed as a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, requiring a by-election.

Elections in the 1840s

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Abercromby resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1850s

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Morison's death caused a by-election.

Elections in the 1860s

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Adam was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, requiring a by-election.

Elections in the 1870s

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Elections in the 1880s

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Adam was appointed as First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings, requiring a by-election.

Adam was appointed as Governor of Madras, causing a by-election.

Balfour was appointed Lord Advocate, requiring a by-election.

Balfour

Elections in the 1890s

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Balfour accepted office as Lord Advocate, prompting a by-election.

Balfour is appointed Lord President of the Court of Session, prompting a by-election.

Elections in the 1900s

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Elections in the 1910s

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Wason

^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 198. Retrieved 11 September 2018 – via Google Books.
^ "General Election". Morning Post. 19 December 1832. p. 4. Retrieved 18 August 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "The General Election". Cambridge Independent Press. 17 July 1841. p. 3. Retrieved 18 August 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "New Elections". Dublin Morning Register. 3 February 1842. p. 2. Retrieved 11 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ ^a ^b "The Election for the Clackmannan". Alloa Advertiser. 14 June 1851. p. 2. Retrieved 11 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Scotland". Dumfries and Galloway Standard. 11 June 1851. p. 3. Retrieved 11 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ Stooks Smith, Henry (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, FWS (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 164–166. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
^ Churton, Edward (1838). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1838. p. 157. Retrieved 2 September 2018 – via Google Books.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Craig, FWS, ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
^ Debrett's House of Commons, 1870
^ ^a ^b "James Richard Haig". Alloa Advertiser. 3 April 1880. p. 1. Retrieved 25 November 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1881
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984.
^ ^a ^b ^c Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
^ ^a ^b Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
^ ^a ^b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
^ ^a ^b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916