Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities (UK Parliament constituency)

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Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities was a university constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1918. It was merged with the Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities constituency to form the Combined Scottish Universities constituency.

Electorate

As a university constituency, the constituency had no geographical basis. Instead, its electorate consisted of graduates from the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews.

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1880s

At Edinburgh Playfair had received 1,742 votes and Bickersteth 1,526, and at St Andrew's Playfair received 512 votes and Bickersteth 698. Eleven of Playfair's ballot papers had not been counted "Owing to certain information".

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1860s

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