Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1918
East (orEastern )Perthshire was acounty constituency of theHouse of Commons of theParliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1918. It elected oneMember of Parliament (MP) by thefirst past the post voting system.
The constituency was defined by theRedistribution of Seats Act 1885 , by dividing thePerthshire constituency to form two new constituencies which were first used in the1885 general election . The other new constituency wasWest Perthshire . Together with theburgh constituency ofPerth , which was unaltered, these constituencies covered thecounty of Perth , except that five detachedparishes had been merged into theClackmannanshire and Kinross-shire constituency by theRepresentation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832 .[ 1]
As defined in the 1885 Act, the constituency consisted of the "Parishes ofAberdalgie ,Alyth ,Abernyte ,Auchtergaven ,Arngask ,Abernethy ,Blairgowrie ,Bendochy ,Coupar Angus ,Cargill ,Caputh (except the detached portions locally situated inForfarshire ),Collace ,Clunie ,Dunbarney ,Dunning , the detached portion of the parish ofDunkeld andDowally which contains the town of Dunkeld,Dron ,Errol , Fowlis-Easter,Forteviot ,Forgandenny ,Findogask ,Inchture , so much of the parish ofKettins as is locally situate in Perthshire,Kinloch ,Kinfauns ,Kinclaven ,Kinnaird ,Kinnoull ,Kilspindie ,Lethendy ,Longforgan (including so much of the parish of ‘Liff ,Benvie , andInvergowrie ’ as is situate in Perthshire),Meigle ,Methven ,Moneydie ,Perth ,Redgorton ,Tibbermore ,Rattray ,Rhynd ,Scone ,St. Martins , andSt Madoes ."[ 2]
1885 boundaries were used also in thegeneral elections of1886 ,1892 ,1895 ,1900 ,1906 ,January 1910 andDecember 1910 .
By 1918, throughout most of Scotland,county boundaries had been altered, and detached parishes were generally historic. TheRepresentation of the People Act 1918 took account of newlocal government boundaries and grouped the county of Perth with thecounty of Kinross for parliamentary representation purposes. Therefore, for the1918 general election , the two counties were covered by the Perth constituency, which was now a county constituency, entirely within the county of Perth, and theKinross and West Perthshire constituency, which covered the county of Kinross and part of the county of Perth.[ 1]
Members of Parliament [ edit ] Elections in the 1880s [ edit ] Menzies' death caused a by-election.
Kinloch Elections in the 1890s [ edit ] Elections in the 1900s [ edit ] Buchanan Elections in the 1910s [ edit ] Young General Election 1914–15 :
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
Notes and references [ edit ] ^a b Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972 ISBN 0-900178-09-4 ^ Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Seventh Schedule ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1) ^a b Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889 ^a b c d e f g Craig, FWS, ed. (1974).British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918 . London: Macmillan Press.ISBN 9781349022984 ^a b Whitaker's Almanack, 1893 ^a b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901 ^ The Times, 27 February 1903 p8 ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907 ^a b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916 ^ Perthshire Advertiser 17 Jun 1914
Current constituencies (2024)
