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campaigning, resulting in Gladstone taking the Midlothian constituency from the long-time Conservative Member of Parliament William Montagu Douglas Scott and going...

The Parliament of the United Kingdom currently has 650 parliamentary constituencies across the constituent countries (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern...

constabulary of Haddington", and now known as Midlothian) elected commissioners to represent them in the Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the...

Stonehouse. Lothians was renamed Lothian and retained 9 constituency seats. The seat of Midlothian was split, with its southern areas transferred to South...

Westminster constituencies was the most recent cycle of the process to redraw the constituency map for the House of Commons. The new constituency boundaries...

Scottish Youth Parliament. Rowley was selected in April 2017 as the official Labour Party candidate, for the Midlothian constituency at the snap general...

twice mentioned in despatches. In 1945 Hope was elected Member of Parliament for Midlothian and Peebles North, a seat he held until 1950, and then represented...

elections occur at least every five years. About 650 constituencies return a member of Parliament. Prior to 1945, electoral competition in the United Kingdom...

proposal required a simple majority to pass. All European Union (EU) or Commonwealth citizens residing in Scotland age 16 or over could vote, with some exceptions...

the 646 previous constituencies of the United Kingdom parliament. There are 650 in the 2010 election[clarification needed] constituencies currently represented...

a different constituency and party in 2005 but did not have any period of absence from the Commons at that time. Having left Parliament in 2010 he made...

the other Commonwealth realms. Officially styled as The Lord Steel of Aikwood, but he was known as Sir David Steel in the Scottish Parliament. Presidency...

redraw the constituency map for the House of Commons, namely the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies. The new constituency borders came...

city is in the Lothian region and was historically part of the shire of Midlothian (also called Edinburghshire). "Edin", the root of the city's name, derives...

held in 2019 in the United Kingdom, the first being the 2019 European Parliament election. Having lost their parliamentary majority at the 2017 general...

2007 election to the 3rd Scottish Parliament. In the election, Salmond stood as a candidate for the Gordon constituency, which had been represented since...

in all constituencies in the United Kingdom to elect MPS to the House of Commons, the lower house of Parliament in the UK. Each constituency elects one...

Powell MP in 1977 after Tam Dalyell, the Labour MP for the Scottish constituency of West Lothian, raised the matter repeatedly in House of Commons debates...

in action in Palestine in 1917. Primrose was born at Dalmeny House in Midlothian, Scotland, the second son of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery...

to win the general election two years earlier. Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 an election had not been due until May 2020, but Prime Minister...