Dunfermline Burghs was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1974. It elected one Member...
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Dunfermline East was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament...
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Dunfermline and West Fife was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the...
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Stirling Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1918. The British parliamentary...
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1974 until 1983. There was also an earlier Dunfermline Burghs constituency, from 1918 to 1974. The constituency was defined by the Second Periodical Review...
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Dunfermline (/dʌnˈfɜːrmlɪn/ ; Scots: Dunfaurlin, Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phàrlain) is a city, parish, and former royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, 3 miles (5 km)...
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Edinburgh was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
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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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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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Ayr Burghs (6) Dumbarton Burghs (2) Dunfermline Burghs (4) Kirkcaldy Burghs (6) Montrose Burghs (5) Stirling & Falkirk Burghs (3) Burgh constituency List...
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other burghs including Edinburgh, Stirling, Dunfermline, Haddington, Perth, Dumfries, Jedburgh, Montrose, Rutherglen and Lanark. Most of the burghs granted...
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Dornoch (redirect from Royal Burgh of Dornoch)
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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Dunfermline (Gaelic: Dùn Phàrlain) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of Fife. It elects one Member...
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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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Kirkcaldy (category Large burghs)
been referred to as "one of the most ancient of burghs". This status as a burgh dependent on Dunfermline Abbey was later confirmed in 1327 by Robert I,...
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in Parliament (until 1950) for the party. 1885–1918: 1918–1950: 1950–1974: The Burghs of Culross, Leslie, and Markinch; the Districts of Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy...
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the Parliament consisted of the three estates of clergy, nobility, and the burghs. By the 1690s it comprised the nobility, the shires, the burghs, and...
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Democrats. Three of the Scottish Parliament constituencies are held by the Scottish National Party: Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline and Mid Fife and Glenrothes....
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See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Locator_maps_of_former_parliamentary_constituencies_of_England_1917...
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Burgh constituencies, CC – County constituencies, UC – University constituencies, Total C – Total constituencies, BMP – Burgh Members of Parliament, CMP...
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1918) † Burghs merged 1930 † Burghs absorbed by Glasgow royal burgh on dates shown 1892 c.55 "Aberdeen Corporation Act 1899", legislation.gov.uk, The National...
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Kinross-shire (section Parliamentary constituency)
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which replaced Scotland's counties, burghs and landward districts with a two-tier structure of upper-tier regions and...
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Constituencies in 1950–1955 | 1955 MPs | 1959 MPs | 1964 MPs | 1966 MPs | 1970 MPs | Constituencies in 1974–1983 This is a list of all constituencies...
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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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City status in the United Kingdom (redirect from City Status in the UK)
burghs listed as cities in 1972. The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 completely reorganised Scotland's local administration in 1975. All burghs were...
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Inverkeithing (category Royal burghs)
Inverkeithing was granted Royal burgh status by 1161 and became the host of the annual Convention of Royal Burghs from 1487. The town witnessed the...
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Stirling and Queensferry comprised the Stirling district of burghs, electing one Member of Parliament between them. 1474: James Shaw of Sauchie 1572 convention:...
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also been. The area is still covered by the North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency). The first election to the district council was held in 1974...
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Adam Hunter (politician) (redirect from Adam Hunter (UK politician))
Fife Constituency Labour Party and secretary of Fife Co-operative Association for many years. Hunter was Member of Parliament for Dunfermline Burghs from...
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Commissioners for Shires and Burghs shall be chosen by the Peers, Barrons and Burghs respectively in this present session of Parliament and out of the members...
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