Mid Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)
55°48′36″N 4°12′36″W / 55.810°N 4.210°W
Mid Lanarkshire | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | county of Lanark |
1885–1918 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | South Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire |
Replaced by | Hamilton, Rutherglen, Lanark |
Mid Lanarkshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1885 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Boundaries
[edit]The name relates the constituency to the county of Lanark. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the Mid division was to consist of "the parishes of Rutherglen, Carmunnock, so much of the parish of Cathcart as adjoins the two last-mentioned parishes, Cambuslang, Blantyre, so much of the parish of Hamilton as lies south and west of the River Clyde, Dalserf and Cambusnethan".[1]
Members of Parliament
[edit]Election | Member[2] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1885 | Stephen Mason | Liberal | |
1888 by-election | John Philipps, later Viscount St Davids | Liberal | |
1894 by-election | James Caldwell | Liberal | |
Jan. 1910 | John Howard Whitehouse | Liberal | |
1918 | constituency abolished |
Elections
[edit]Decades: |
Elections in the 1880s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Stephen Mason | 2,875 | 39.0 | ||
Conservative | William Robert Bousfield | 2,579 | 35.0 | ||
Independent Liberal | John Clark Forrest | 1,913 | 26.0 | ||
Majority | 296 | 4.0 | |||
Turnout | 7,367 | 82.4 | |||
Registered electors | 8,939 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Stephen Mason | 3,779 | 56.5 | +17.5 | |
Liberal Unionist | James Widrington Shand-Harvey | 2,909 | 43.5 | +8.5 | |
Majority | 870 | 13.0 | +9.0 | ||
Turnout | 6,688 | 74.8 | −7.6 | ||
Registered electors | 8,939 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +4.5 |
Mason's resignation caused a by-election.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Philipps | 3,847 | 52.1 | −4.4 | |
Conservative | William Robert Bousfield | 2,917 | 39.5 | −4.0 | |
Independent Labour | Keir Hardie | 617 | 8.4 | New | |
Majority | 930 | 12.6 | −0.4 | ||
Turnout | 7,381 | 80.7 | +5.9 | ||
Registered electors | 9,143 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -0.2 |
Elections in the 1890s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Philipps | 4,611 | 56.9 | +0.4 | |
Conservative | Robert Edward Stuart Harington-Stuart[6] | 3,489 | 43.1 | −0.4 | |
Majority | 1,122 | 13.8 | +0.8 | ||
Turnout | 8,100 | 77.2 | +2.4 | ||
Registered electors | 10,496 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +0.4 |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | James Caldwell | 3,965 | 45.0 | −11.9 | |
Liberal Unionist | Robert Edward Stuart Harington-Stuart | 3,635 | 41.2 | −1.9 | |
Scottish Labour | Robert Smillie | 1,221 | 13.8 | New | |
Majority | 330 | 3.8 | −10.0 | ||
Turnout | 8,821 | 78.1 | +0.9 | ||
Registered electors | 11,294 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -5.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | James Caldwell | 4,447 | 50.4 | −6.5 | |
Conservative | Charles Kincaid MacKenzie | 4,376 | 49.6 | +6.5 | |
Majority | 71 | 0.8 | −13.0 | ||
Turnout | 8,823 | 77.4 | +0.2 | ||
Registered electors | 11,392 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −6.5 |
Elections in the 1900s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | James Caldwell | 5,267 | 50.9 | +0.5 | |
Conservative | Charles Kincaid MacKenzie | 5,075 | 49.1 | −0.5 | |
Majority | 192 | 1.8 | +1.0 | ||
Turnout | 10,342 | 79.6 | +2.2 | ||
Registered electors | 12,998 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +0.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | James Caldwell | 7,246 | 58.1 | +7.2 | |
Conservative | Duncan Campbell | 4,470 | 35.8 | −13.3 | |
Musical Copyright Association | A.S. Gibson | 758 | 6.1 | New | |
Majority | 2,776 | 22.3 | +20.5 | ||
Turnout | 12,474 | 81.1 | +1.5 | ||
Registered electors | 15,375 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +10.2 |
Elections in the 1910s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Howard Whitehouse | 5,792 | 38.4 | −19.7 | |
Conservative | John Johnson Pickering | 5,401 | 35.9 | +0.1 | |
Labour | Robert Smillie | 3,864 | 25.7 | New | |
Majority | 391 | 2.5 | −19.8 | ||
Turnout | 15,057 | 84.6 | +3.5 | ||
Registered electors | 18,484 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -9.9 |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Howard Whitehouse | 6,033 | 38.7 | +0.3 | |
Conservative | Henry Keith | 5,702 | 36.6 | +0.7 | |
Labour | Robert Smillie | 3,847 | 24.7 | −1.0 | |
Majority | 331 | 2.1 | −0.4 | ||
Turnout | 15,582 | 84.3 | −0.3 | ||
Registered electors | 18,484 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -0.2 |
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: John Howard Whitehouse
- Unionist:
- Labour: Robert Smillie
References
[edit]- ^ Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, Seventh Schedule, Part II
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918, FWS Craig
- ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
- ^ "Person Page - 43205". The Peerage. Wellington, New Zealand: Lundy Consulting. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
- ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
- ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916