Midlothian (UK Parliament constituency, 1708–1918)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801–1918 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Edinburghshire (also known as Midlothian) was a Scottish county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (also at Westminster) from 1801 to 1918.
Edinburghshire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1708–1918 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Edinburghshire |
Replaced by | Midlothian & Peebles Northern Peebles & Southern Midlothian |
It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
The seat is most famous as the location of William Ewart Gladstone's upset victory in the Midlothian Campaign of 1880, regarded as the birth of the modern political campaign in the United Kingdom. After Gladstone's victory it became the first non-English constituency to be represented by a serving prime minister.