Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Lanarkshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	county of Lanark
1708–1868
Number of members	One
Replaced by	North Lanarkshire South Lanarkshire

Lanarkshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1708 to 1868. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

Boundaries

The name relates the constituency to the county of Lanark.

The North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire constituencies were created when the Lanarkshire constituency was abolished in 1868.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1708	Lord Archibald Hamilton	Whig
	1710	Sir James Hamilton of Rosehall
	1713
	1715	James Lockhart
	1718	Lord Archibald Hamilton	Whig
	1722
	1727
	1734	Lord William Hamilton
	1735	Sir James Hamilton of Rosehall
	1741
	1747
	1750	Patrick Stuart
	1754	James Vere	Pro-Administration Whig
	1760	Daniel Campbell
	1761
	1768	John Lockhart-Ross
	1774	Andrew Stuart
	1780
	1784	Sir James Denham-Steuart, Bt	Pittite
	1790
	1796
	1801
	1802	Lord Archibald Hamilton	Whig
	1806
	1807
	1812
	1818
	1820
	1826
	1827	Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart of Greenock and Blackhall
	1830	Charles Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas	Tory
	1831
	1832	Sir John Maxwell of Pollok	Whig
	1835
	1837	Alexander Macdonald Lockhart	Conservative
	1841	William Lockhart	Conservative
	1847
	1852
	1857	Alexander Baillie-Cochrane	Conservative
	1857	Sir Thomas Colebrooke	Liberal
	1859
	1865

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)