Flint Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency)

From its first known general election in 1542 until 1918, the constituency consisted of a number of boroughs within the historic county of Flintshire in north-east Wales.

8. c. 11) confirmed that the contributing boroughs could send representatives to take part in the election at the county town.

The original scheme was modified by later legislation and decisions of the House of Commons (which were sometimes made with no regard to precedent or evidence: for example in 1728 it was decided that only the freemen of the borough of Montgomery could participate in the election for that seat, thus disenfranchising the freemen of Llanidloes, Welshpool and Llanfyllin).

Thereafter the inhabitants of the five boroughs, paying scot and lot (a local tax), formed the electorate.

The voters from each participating borough cast ballots, which were added together over the whole district to decide the result of the poll.

The enfranchised communities in this district, from 1832, were the eight boroughs of Flint, Caergwrle, Caerwys, Holywell, Mold, Overton, Rhuddlan and St Asaph.

As there were sometimes significant gaps between Parliaments held in this period, the dates of first assembly and dissolution are given.

Where the name of the member has not yet been ascertained or is not recorded in a surviving document, the entry unknown is entered in the table.

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