Boundaries
The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918, and first used in the 1918 general election, to cover the counties of Roxburgh and Selkirk.
At least nominally, the counties had been covered previously by the Roxburghshire and Peebles and Selkirk constituencies.
For the 1955 general election, as a result of the First Periodical Review of the Boundary Commission, the Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency was abolished and the Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles constituency was created, covering the counties of Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Peebles.
Read more about this topic: Roxburgh And Selkirk (UK Parliament Constituency)
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