Elginshire and Nairnshire (UK Parliament constituency)

From 1832 to 1918, it returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.

4. c. 65), Nairnshire was normally controlled by the Dukes of Argyll or Campbells, the number of voters varying between 15 and 30.

[2] The Grants dominated Elginshire which had around 30 voters; both constituencies objected to the merger but without result.

Ogilvy-Grant resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;