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Until 1832, the self-elected Council of each burgh in a district elected a commissioner, who had one vote for the MP. The commissioner from the Returning Burgh (which function rotated amongst the burghs in successive elections) had an additional casting vote if the numbers were equal. Burgh councils
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amended the composition of the districts, and the boundaries of a burgh for parliamentary purposes ceased to be necessarily those of the burgh for other purposes. The franchise was extended, and votes from all the burghs were added together.
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had small memberships, with the result that the combined electorate for all 14 constituencies in 1831 was no more than 1,270.
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which had an MP to itself. The burghs in a district were not necessarily adjacent or even close together.
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There were further changes to the number and the composition of the districts under the
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The idea of parliamentary burghs continues to this day, in the form of
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continued in use in the names of some constituencies until 1974.
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The district of burghs system was eventually discontinued by the
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Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
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Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972
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