Elgin was a

burgh constituency A burgh constituency is a type of parliamentary constituency in Scotland. It is a constituency which is predominantly urban, and on this basis has been designated as a burgh constituency. They are the successors of the historic parliamentary bur ...

that elected one commissioner to the

Parliament of Scotland The Parliament of Scotland ( sco, Pairlament o Scotland; gd, Pàrlamaid na h-Alba) was the legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland from the 13th century until 1707. The parliament evolved during the early 13th century from the king's council o ...

and to the Convention of Estates. After the Acts of Union 1707, Elgin, Banff, Cullen,

Inverurie Inverurie (Scottish Gaelic: ''Inbhir Uraidh'' or ''Inbhir Uaraidh'', 'mouth of the River Ury') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland at the confluence of the rivers Ury and Don, about north-west of Aberdeen. Geography Inverurie is in the va ...

and Kintore formed the Elgin

district of burghs The Act of Union 1707 and pre-Union Scottish legislation provided for 14 Members of Parliament (MPs) from Scotland to be elected from districts of burghs. All the parliamentary burghs (burghs represented in the pre-Union Parliament of Scotland) ...

, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.

List of burgh commissioners

* 1661–63: Andrew Leslie, bailie * 1665 convention: Andrew Young * 1667 convention: Robert Martins * 1669–72: James Calder of Muirton * 1678 convention, 1685–86: David Stewart, baillie * 1681–82: John Fyffe, councillor * 1689–1701: James Stewart, dean of guild * 1702–07: William Sutherland

List of burgh commissioners

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