• Inverness Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801 and...
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    Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey was a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. As with all seats since 1950 it elected one...
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  • Elgin Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the United...
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  • Lieutenancy of Inverness Inverness-shire Constabulary (1840 to 1968) Inverness Constabulary (1968 to 1975) Inverness Burghs (UK Parliament constituency) (1708...
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  • amalgamation of the county constituency of Elginshire and Nairnshire with the parliamentary burghs of Elgin, previously part of Elgin Burghs, and Nairn and Forres...
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  • nominally, the county of Inverness minus the burgh of Inverness, which was a part of the Inverness Burghs constituency. By 1918, however, county boundaries were...
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  • until 1918. There was also a burgh constituency called Inverness Burghs, 1708 to 1918, and a county constituency called Inverness, 1918 to 1983. The British...
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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....
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    Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, 1997 to 2005 Ross, Skye and Inverness West, 1997 to 2005 Inverness Burghs was a district of burghs constituency,...
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    the Western Isles constituency. The Inverness constituency included the burgh of Inverness, other components of the district of burghs being divided between...
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    Scotland had more constituencies than seats. With the exception of Edinburgh, the burgh constituencies were districts of burghs. 1708 boundaries were...
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    counties and burghs were abolished in 1975. A burgh constituency is now one with a predominantly urban electorate, and a county constituency is one with...
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  • Parliament (MPs) from Scotland to be elected from districts of burghs. All the parliamentary burghs (burghs represented in the pre-Union Parliament of...
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  • county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the...
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  • Isles constituency, and the Fortrose component of the former Inverness Burghs constituency and the Dingwall and Cromarty Parliamentary burghs which formed...
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    Robert Grant (MP) (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies)
    He was elected Member of Parliament for the Elgin Burghs in 1818, and for the Inverness Burghs in 1826. The latter constituency he represented for four...
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    parliamentary burgh, combined with Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick in the Northern Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the...
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  • 1895 Inverness Burghs by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 31 August 1895 for the UK House of Commons constituency of Inverness Burghs, which...
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    also as Tain Burghs until 1832, and then as Wick Burghs. It was represented by one Member of Parliament (MP). In 1918 the constituency was abolished...
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  • Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1997. It elected...
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    Nairn (redirect from Royal Burgh of Nairn)
    royal burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is an ancient fishing port and market town around 17 miles (27 km) east of Inverness, at the...
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  • Caithness constituency covered the county of Caithness minus the parliamentary burgh of Wick, which was a component of the Tain Burghs constituency. In 1832...
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  • abolished, by these reviews. Constituencies were long based on boroughs (burghs in Scotland) and counties. Today, constituencies in England are mostly subdivisions...
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    types: royal burghs and police burghs. Some burghs were additionally classed as parliamentary burghs, excluding them from the constituency of the wider...
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  • re-election at the Dysart Burghs FitzHarris sought re-election at Horsham List of ministerial by-elections to the Parliament of Great Britain (pre-1801)...
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    Dingwall (category Royal burghs)
    also as Tain Burghs until 1832, and then as Wick Burghs. It was represented by one Member of Parliament (MP). In 1918 the constituency was abolished...
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    parliamentary burghs, Dingwall, Tain and Fortrose, which were represented as components of the Wick burghs constituency and the Inverness burghs constituency. Constituency...
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  • Bute) Sutherland Ross-shire Tain Burghs Cromartyshire (alternated with Nairnshire) Inverness-shire Inverness Burghs   Conservative   Tories   Whig   Conservative...
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    Forres (category Royal burghs)
    parliamentary burgh, combined with Inverness, Fortrose and Nairn, in the Inverness Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain...
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    parliamentary burgh, combined with Inverness, Forres and Nairn, in the Inverness Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain...
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