Dundee (UK Parliament constituency)

Dundee
Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons
Major settlements	Dundee
1832–1950
Number of members	1832–1868: One 1868–1950: Two
Replaced by	Dundee East Dundee West

Dundee was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1950, when it was split into Dundee East and Dundee West.

From 1832 to 1868 it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system, and from 1868 until its abolition for the 1950 general election it elected two MPs using the bloc vote system.

Winston Churchill became Member of Parliament for Dundee in a by-election of 1908 soon after losing his Manchester North West seat and retained the seat until 1922.

In 1906, the explorer Ernest Shackleton unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the Liberal Unionist Party.

The boundaries of the constituency, as set out in the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832, were-

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