The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system until the seat was abolished in 1918.
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Fergusson was appointed Judge-Advocate General of the Armed Forces, requiring a by-election.
Fergusson was appointed Judge-Advocate General of the Armed Forces, requiring a by-election.
Maitland resigned after being appointed a senator of the College of Justice, becoming Lord Dundrennan and 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;