| Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1868 |
| Abolished: | 1918 |
| Type: | University |
| Seats: | 1 |
| Region: | Scotland |
Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities was a university constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1918. It was merged with the Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities constituency to form the Combined Scottish Universities constituency.
As a university constituency, the constituency had no geographical basis. Instead, its electorate consisted of graduates from the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews.
| Election | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1868 | Lyon Playfair, later Baron Playfair | Liberal | ||
| 1885 | John Macdonald | Conservative | ||
| 1888 by-election | Moir Tod Stormonth Darling | Conservative | ||
| 1890 by-election | Sir Charles Pearson | Conservative | ||
| 1896 by-election | Sir William Overend Priestley | Conservative | ||
| 1900 by-election | Sir John Batty Tuke | Conservative | ||
| Jan. 1910 | Sir Robert Finlay, later Viscount Finlay | Liberal Unionist | ||
| 1912 | Unionist | |||
| 1916 by-election | Christopher Nicholson Johnston | Unionist | ||
| 1917 by-election | Sir Watson Cheyne | Unionist | ||
| 1918 | constituency abolished: see Combined Scottish Universities | |||
At Edinburgh Playfair had received 1,742 votes and Bickersteth 1526, and at St Andrew's Playfair received 512 votes and Bickersteth 698. Eleven of Playfair's ballot papers had not been counted "Owing to certain information".