Wigtownshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Wigtownshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Wigtownshire
1708–1918
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Galloway
Created from	Wigtownshire

Wigtownshire, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It was represented by one Member of Parliament.

The first British general election in Wigtownshire was in 1708. In 1707–08, members of the 1702–1707 Parliament of Scotland were co-opted to serve in the 1st Parliament of Great Britain. See Scottish representatives to the 1st Parliament of Great Britain, for further details.

In 1918 the Wigtownshire area was combined with Kirkcudbrightshire to form the Galloway constituency.

Wigtownshire was a Scottish shire (later known as a county), which had previously been represented by two commissioners in the former Parliament of Scotland. The constituency included the whole shire, except that between 1708-1885 the burghs of Stranraer, New Galloway, Whithorn and Wigtown, formed part of the Wigtown Burghs constituency.

In the 1874 general election, Robert Vans-Agnew (Conservative) was returned unopposed.

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