New Galloway (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

New Galloway was a royal burgh that elected one Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland before 1707.

Constituency

New Galloway in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright was made a royal burgh by charter of Charles I in 1630, and this was confirmed by Act of Parliament in 1633.^[1]

After the Act of Union 1707, New Galloway became part of the Wigtown district of burghs electing one Member to the Parliament of Great Britain.

Joseph Foster, Members of Parliament, Scotland (London and Aylesbury, 1882)

↑ The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2011), 1633/6/112. Date accessed: 19 November 2011.
↑ Foster, p. 153
↑ Foster, p. 97
↑ Foster, p. 10
↑ Foster, p. 152
↑ Foster, p. 90
↑ Foster, p. 181

Constituencies of the Parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union 1707

Burghs	Aberdeen Annan Anstruther Easter Anstruther Wester Arbroath Auchterarder Ayr Banff Berwick Brechin Burntisland Campbeltown Crail Cromarty Cullen Culross Cupar Dingwall Dornoch Dumbarton Dumfries Dunbar Dundee Dunfermline Dysart Edinburgh Elgin Forfar Forres Fortrose Glasgow Haddington Inveraray Inverbervie Inverkeithing Inverness Inverurie Irvine Jedburgh Kilrenny Kinghorn Kintore Kirkcaldy Kirkcudbright Kirkwall Lanark Lauder Linlithgow Lochmaben Montrose Nairn New Galloway North Berwick Peebles Perth Pittenweem Queensferry Renfrew Rothesay Rutherglen St Andrews Sanquhar Selkirk Stirling Stranraer Tain Whithorn Wick Wigtown

Shires	Aberdeen Argyll Ayr Banff Berwick Bute Caithness Clackmannan Cromarty Dumfries Dunbarton Edinburgh Elgin and Forres Fife Forfar Haddington Inverness Kincardine Kinross Kirkcudbright Lanark Linlithgow Nairn Orkney and Shetland Peebles Perth Renfrew Ross Roxburgh Selkirk Stirling Sutherland Tarbert Wigtown

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