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Revision as of 21:46, 11 April 2017

This article is about the 1918–1950 burgh constituency. For the 1885–1918 county constituency, see Partick (UK Parliament constituency).

Glasgow Partick
Former burgh constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of ScotlandCity of Glasgow
1918–1950
SeatsOne
Created fromPartick
Replaced byGlasgow Hillhead and Glasgow Woodside

Glasgow Partick was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1950.

Boundaries

The previous 1885–1918 county 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: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:Unionist Party (Scotland)/meta/color" | 1924 George Humphrey Maurice Broun-Lindsay Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1929 Adam McKinlay Labour
style="background-color: Template:Unionist Party (Scotland)/meta/color" | 1931 Charles Glen MacAndrew, later Baron MacAndrew Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Unionist Party (Scotland)/meta/color" | 1935 Sir Arthur Stewart Leslie Young Unionist

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Partick [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal 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

Sir John Collie
General Election 1922
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Liberal Sir Robert John Collie 11,754 65.2 n/a
Liberal Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson 6,282 34.8 n/a
Majority 5,472 30.4
Turnout 18,036
National Liberal hold Swing n/a
General Election 1923: Glasgow Partick [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Andrew Young 8,397 44.0 n/a
Unionist Sir Allan Macgregor Smith 6,315 33.1 n/a
Liberal Alexander MacCallum Scott 4,358 22.9
Majority 10.9
Turnout
Labour gain from National Liberal Swing n/a
General Election 1924: Glasgow Partick [5]
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[6]
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[7]
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 [8]
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;

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Glasgow Partick [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Arthur Stewart Leslie Young
Labour
Liberal
Majority
Turnout
Unionist hold Swing

References

  1. ^ Redistribution of Seats Act 1885
  2. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
  3. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
  4. ^ The Times, 8 December 1923
  5. ^ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
  6. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  7. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
  8. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
  9. ^ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
  10. ^ 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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