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Wick Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1832–1918

Field	Value
name	Wick Burghs
parliament	uk
year	1832
abolished	1918
type	District of Burghs
elects_howmany	One
previous	Cromartyshire and Tain Burghs
next	Caithness and Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty
region	Scotland
towns	Cromarty, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick

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.

A similar constituency had been known as Tain Burghs from 1708 to 1832.

Boundaries

The constituency was a district of burghs representing the parliamentary burghs of Cromarty, Dingwall, Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick. Apart from Cromarty, these burghs had been previously components of Tain Burghs. 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. 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.

Members of Parliament

Election	Member	Party
1832	constituency created
Whigs (British political party)}}"		1832	James Loch
Radicals (UK)}}"		1852	Samuel Laing
Whigs (British political party)}}"		1857	Lord John Hay
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1859	Samuel Laing
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1860 by-election	William Keppel, Viscount Bury
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1865	Samuel Laing
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1868	George Loch
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1872 by-election	John Pender
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1885	John Macdonald Cameron
Liberal Unionist Party}}"		1892	Sir John Pender
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1896 by-election	Thomas Hedderwick
Liberal Unionist Party}}"		1900	Sir Arthur Bignold
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1910	Robert Munro
1918	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

|reg. electors = 366

|reg. electors = 571

|reg. electors = 680

Elections in the 1840s

|reg. electors = 742

|reg. electors = 690

Elections in the 1850s

|reg. electors = 699

|reg. electors = 635

|reg. electors = 657

Elections in the 1860s

Laing resigned after being appointed a member of the Council of India, causing a by-election.

|reg. electors = 793

|reg. electors = 1,673

Elections in the 1870s

Loch resigned, causing a by-election.

|reg. electors = 1,439

|reg. electors = 1,793

Elections in the 1880s

|reg. electors = 1,754

|reg. electors = 2,015

Cameron was supported by the Highland Land League, and ally of the Crofter MPs.

|reg. electors = 2,015

Elections in the 1890s

|reg. electors = 2,208 |reg. electors = 2,205

Pender's resignation caused a by-election.

|reg. electors = 2,277

Elections in the 1900s

|reg. electors = 2,746 |reg. electors = 2,887

Elections in the 1910s

Sources

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)
Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889 (for 1885 and 1886 results)
Whitaker's Almanack, 1907 (for 1906 results)

References

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''.
[[Representation of the People Act 1918]], Ninth Schedule - Parliamentary Counties, Scotland
{{rayment-hc. w. 3. (March 2012)
(1842). "The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections". Simpkin, Marshall & Company.
(1838). "The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1838".
(17 July 1841). "The Chartist Conservative Creed". The Atlas.
(8 July 1852). "The Forthcoming Scottish Elections". Fife Herald.
(1997). "A History of the University of Cambridge. Volume III: 1750-1870". Cambridge University Press.
(7 April 1857). "Banffshire Journal and General Advertiser".
(10 April 1857). "Northern Burghs Election". John o'Groat Journal.
Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1870
(6 February 1872). "Election Intelligence". [[Manchester Evening News]].
(26 February 1872). "Wick Burghs Election". [[Cork Constitution (newspaper).
(12 February 1874). "To the Electors". [[The Inverness Courier]].
(1977). "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885". Macmillan Press.
Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
(1974). "British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918". Macmillan Press.
(30 June 1886). "The Political Contest". John O'Groat Journal.
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

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