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Glasgow Partick
Glasgow Partick
Former burgh constituency; for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	City of Glasgow
1885–1950
Seats	One
Replaced by	Glasgow Hillhead (UK Parliament constituency) and Glasgow Woodside (UK Parliament constituency)

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Glasgow Partick was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1950.

Boundaries

From 1885 the constituency consisted of "So much of the Parish of Govan as lies north of the Clyde and beyond the present boundary of the municipal burgh of Glasgow, and so much of the parish of Barony as lies to the west of the present main line of railway between Glasgow and Edinburgh of the North British Railway Company (being the old Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) and beyond the present boundary of the municipal burgh of Glasgow." ^[1]

In 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary at the centre line of the North British Railway (Stobcross Branch), thence south-eastward along the centre line of the said North British Railway to the centre line of the River Kelvin, thence south-westward along the centre line of the River Kelvin to the centre line of the River Clyde, thence westward along the centre line of the River Clyde, to the municipal boundary, thence northward and north-eastward along the municipal boundary to the point of commencement."

Members of Parliament

Election		Member ^[2]	Party
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1885	Alexander Craig Sellar	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	1886	Alexander Craig Sellar	Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	1890	James Parker Smith	Liberal Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1906	Sir Robert Balfour	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" \|	1918	Sir Robert Balfour	Coalition Liberal
style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)/meta/color" \|	1922	Sir Robert John Collie	National Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Labour Co-operative/meta/color" \|	1923	Andrew Young	Labour Co-operative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1924	George Humphrey Maurice Broun-Lindsay	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1929	Adam McKinlay	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1931	Charles Glen MacAndrew, later Baron MacAndrew	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1935	Sir Arthur Stewart Leslie Young	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Partick ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alexander Craig Sellar	3,726	51.9	n/a
	Conservative	Rt Hon. Lord Henry Charles Gordon-Lennox	3,385	48.1	n/a
	Scottish Land Restoration	John Murdoch	74	0.0	n/a
Majority					n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Liberal win (new seat)

General Election 1886: Partick ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Alexander Craig Sellar	3,745	56.0	+7.9
	Liberal	Robert Allan McLean	2,944	44.0	−7.9
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	7.9

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Partick ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Unionist	James Parker Smith	5,005	53.9
	Liberal	Edward Priaulx Tennant	4,278	46.1
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1895: Partick ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	James Parker Smith	5,551	56.1	+2.2
	Liberal	William Lyon Mackenzie	4,344	43.9	−2.2
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	+2.2

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Partick ^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	James Parker Smith	6,950	60.0	+3.9
	Liberal	Robert Lambie	4,717	40.0	−3.9
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	+3.9

General Election 1906: Partick ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Balfour	9,477	54.3	+14.3
	Conservative	Rt Hon. James Parker Smith	7,960	45.7	−14.3
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	14.3

Elections in the 1910s

General Election Jan 1910: Partick ^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Balfour	10,093	51.5	−2.8
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald White Maconochie	9,522	48.5	+2.8
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing	-2.8

General Election Dec 1910: Partick ^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Balfour	10,535	50.8	−0.7
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald White Maconochie	10,190	49.2	+0.7
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.7

General Election 1914/15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Liberal: Sir Robert Balfour
Unionist: Robert Stevenson Horne^[11]

General Election 1918: Partick ^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Robert Balfour	12,156	70.1	+19.2
	Labour	William Mackie	5,173	29.9	+29.9
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing	-5.4

endorsed by the Coalition Government.

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922
Party		Candidate	Votes
	National Liberal	Sir Robert John Collie	11,754
	Liberal	Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson	6,282
Majority
Turnout
	National Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Glasgow Partick ^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Andrew Young	8,397	44.0
	Unionist	Sir Allan Macgregor Smith	6,315	33.1
	Liberal	Alexander MacCallum Scott	4,358	22.9
Majority
Turnout
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1924: Glasgow Partick ^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	George Humphrey Maurice Broun-Lindsay	13,167	57.8	+24.7
	Labour	Andrew Young	9,612	42.2	−1.8
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist gain from Labour		Swing	13.25

General Election 1929: Glasgow Partick^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adam Storey McKinlay	13,110	45.5	+3.3
	Unionist	George Humphrey Maurice Broun-Lindsay	12,701	44.1	−13.7
	Liberal	John Taylor	2,975	10.3	n/a
Majority			399	1.4	17.0
Turnout			28,786
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+8.5

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Glasgow Partick^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	Charles Glen MacAndrew	15,616	54.0
	Labour	Adam Storey McKinlay	13,316	46.0
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1935: Glasgow Partick ^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Arthur Stewart Leslie Young	18,904	62.7	+8.7
	Labour	Adam Storey McKinlay	11,252	37.3	−8.7
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing	+8.7

General Election 1939/40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

Unionist: Arthur Stewart Leslie Young
Labour: Adam Storey McKinlay^[18]

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Glasgow Partick ^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Unionist	Arthur Stewart Leslie Young
	Labour
	Liberal
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

References

^ Redistribution of Seats Act 1885
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
^ Daily Record 5 Mar 1914
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
^ The Times, 8 December 1923
^ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
^ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

[1] Redistribution of Seats Act 1885

[rayment-2] Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)

[3] Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889

[4] Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889

[5] Whitaker's Almanack, 1893

[6] Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901

[7] Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901

[8] Whitaker's Almanack, 1907

[9] Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916

[10] Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916

[11] Daily Record 5 Mar 1914

[12] Whitaker's Almanack, 1920

[13] The Times, 8 December 1923

[14] Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927

[15] British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

[16] Whitaker's Almanack, 1934

[17] Whitaker's Almanack, 1939

[18] Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939

[19] Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

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