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Eastern Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency)

East Aberdeenshire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland Aberdeenshire
19501983
Number of members One
Replaced by Banff & Buchan
Gordon
Created from East Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire
Central Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire
18681918
Number of members One
Type of constituency County constituency
Replaced by East Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire
Central Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire

East (or Eastern) Aberdeenshire was a Scottish county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 to 1918 and from 1950 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

During the period 1918 to 1950, the area of the constituency was divided between East Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire and Central Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire, which were both entirely within the county of Aberdeen.

In 1983, the East Aberdeenshire area was divided between the new constituencies of Banff and Buchan and Gordon.

When, created by the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868, and first used in the 1868 general election, the constituency was nominally one of three covering the county of Aberdeen. The other two were the county constituency of West Aberdeenshire and the burgh constituency of Aberdeen. The county had been covered previously by the Aberdeenshire constituency and the Aberdeen constitutuency.


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