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BOUNDARIES


The Representation Of The People (Scotland) Act 1868 established the constituencies of Aberdeenshire East and '''Aberdeenshire West''' as comprising the following parishes-

East: Aberdour , Belhelvie , Bourtie , Crimond , Cruden , Daviot , Ellon , Fintray , Foveran , Fraserburgh , Fyvie , Keith-hall and Kinkell , King-Edward , Logie-Buchan , Longside , Lonmay , Methlick , Montquhitter , New Deer , New Machar , Old Deer , Oldmeldrum , Peterhead , Pitsligo , Rathen , Slains , Strichen , Tarves , Turriff , Tyrie and Udny , together with the part of the parish of Old Machar lying east of the River Don , and the parish of St Fergus in Banffshire .

West: Aboyne and Glentanner , Alford , Auchindoir And Kearn , Auchterless , Birse , Chapel Of Garioch , Clatt , Cluny , Coull , Crathie and Braemar , Culsalmond , Drumblade , Dyce , Echt , Forgue , Glenbucket , Glenmuick, Tullich And Glengairn , Huntly , Insch , Inverurie , Keig , Kemnay , Kildrummy , Kincardine O'Neil , Kinnellar , Kennethmont , Kintore , Leochel-Cushnie , Leslie , Logie-Coldstone , Lumphanan , Midmar , Monymusk , Newhills , Oyne , Peterculter , Premnay , Rayne , Rhynie , Skene , Strathdon , Tarland And Migvie , Tough , Towie , Tullynesle And Forbes , together with the part of the parish of Old Machar lying west of the River Don , and the parts of the parishes of Banchory-Devenick , Cabrach , Cairnie , Drumoak and Glass within the County of Aberdeen, and the parish of Gartly in Banffshire.


MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT



Aberdeenshire

  Name Aberdeenshire
  Type County
  Year 1708
  Abolition 1868



1708 William Gordon, Lord Haddo , later Earl of Aberdeen

1709 Sir Alexander Cumming

1722 Sir Archibald Grant (expelled)

1732 Sir Arthur Forbes

1747 Andrew Mitchell

1754 Lord Adam Gordon

1768 Alexander Garden

1786 George Skene

1790 James Ferguson

1820 William Gordon

1854 George John James Gordon, Baron Haddo, later Earl of Aberdeen

1861 William Leslie

1866 William Dingwall Fordyce


Aberdeenshire Eastern

  Name Aberdeenshire Eastern
  Type County
  Year 1868
  Abolition 1918



1868 William Dingwall Fordyce

1875 Sir Alexander Hamilton Gordon

1885 Peter Esslemont

1892 Thomas Ryburn Buchanan

1900 Archibald White Maconochie

1906 James Annand

1906 James Murray

1910 William Henry Cowan


Aberdeenshire Western

  Name Aberdeenshire Western
  Type County
  Year 1868
  Abolition 1918



1868 William McCombie

1876 Lord Douglas William Cope Gordon

1880 Robert Farquharson

1906 John Macdonald Henderson


Aberdeen and Kincardine East

  Name Aberdeenshire and Kincardine East
  Type County
  Year 1918
  Abolition 1950



1918 Sir William Henry Cowan

1922 Frederick Martin

1924 Sir Robert John Graham Boothby , later Baron Boothby



Aberdeen and Kincardine Central

  Name Aberdeen and Kincardine Central
  Type County
  Year 1918
  Abolition 1950



1918 Alexander Theodore Gordon

1919 Murdoch McKenzie Wood

1924 Sir Robert Workman Smith

1945 Henry Reginald Spence


Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West

  Name Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West
  Type County
  Year 1918
  Abolition 1950



1918 Arthur Cecil Murray , later Viscount Elibank

1923 Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey

1929 James Scott

1931 Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey

1939 Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley


Aberdeenshire East

  Name Aberdeenshire East
  Type County
  Year 1950
  Abolition 1983



1950 Sir Robert John Graham Boothby , later Baron Boothby -- Unionist

1958 Patrick Wolrige-Gordon -- Unionist /Conservative

Feb 1974 Douglas Henderson -- SNP

1979 Albert McQuarrie


Aberdeenshire West

  Name Aberdeenshire West
  Type County
  Year 1950
  Abolition 1983



1950 Henry Reginald Spence -- Unionist

1959 Alexander Forbes Hendry

1966 James Duncan Gordon Davidson

1970 Colin Campbell Mitchell -- Conservative

1974 Sir Thomas Russell Fairgrieve


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