Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the shire of Renfrew elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the Estates.
From 1708 Renfrewshire was represented by one Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Great Britain.
List of shire commissioners
1639–41, 1645–47: Sir Ludovic Houston of that Ilk
1643–44, 1644, 1649, 1667: John Shaw of Greenock
1661: Patrick Houston, fiar of that Ilk
1667: Sir Archibald Stewart of Blackhall
1669–70: Sir Archibald Stewart of Castlemilk
1669–74, 1678, 1681–82: Sir John Shaw of Greenock
1685–86, 1702–07: John Houston, younger of that Ilk (Sir John from 1696)
1689–93, 1695–96, 1698–99: Sir John Maxwell of Pollok
1700–04: John Stewart, younger of Blackhall
1700–07: Sir Robert Pollok of that Ilk
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