Paisley (UK Parliament constituency)
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Paisley was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1983, when it was divided into Paisley North and Paisley South. These were in turn amalgamated into Paisley and Renfrewshire South and Paisley and Renfrewshire North in 2005.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency covered the burgh of Paisley.
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] Paisley (1832-1983)
| Paisley Burgh constituency |
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|---|---|
| Created: | 1832 |
| Abolished: | 1983 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
- 1832 Sir John Maxwell
- 1834 Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford
- 1835 Alexander Graham Speirs
- 1836 Archibald Hastie
- 1857 Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing
- 1874 William Holms
- 1884 Stewart Clark
- 1885 William Boyle Barbour
- 1891 Sir William Dunn
- 1906 Sir John Mills McCallum
- 1920 Herbert Henry Asquith, later Earl of Oxford and Asquith
- 1924 Edward Rosslyn Mitchell
- 1929 James Welsh
- 1931 Joseph Paton Maclay, later Baron Maclay
- 1945 Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin,Viscount Corvedale, later Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
- 1948 Douglas Harold Johnston
- 1961 John Robertson
- 1979 Allen Adams
[edit] Paisley North (1983-2005)
| Paisley North Burgh constituency |
|
|---|---|
| Created: | 1983 |
| Abolished: | 2005 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
- 1983 Allen Adams
- 1990 Irene Adams
[edit] Paisley South (1983-2005)
| Paisley South Burgh constituency |
|
|---|---|
| Created: | 1983 |
| Abolished: | 2005 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
- 1983 Norman Buchan
- 1990 Gordon McMaster
- 1997 Douglas Alexander
[edit] Election results
| General Election 2001: Paisley South | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Douglas Alexander | 17,830 | 58.4 | +0.9 | |
| Scottish National Party | Brian Lawson | 5,920 | 19.4 | -4.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Brian O’Malley | 3,178 | 10.4 | +1.0 | |
| Conservative | Andrew Cossar | 2,301 | 7.5 | -1.1 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Francis Curran | 835 | 2.7 | N/A | |
| ProLife Alliance | Patricia Graham | 346 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| Independent | Terence O’Donnell | 126 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 11,910 | 39.0 | |||
| Turnout | 30,536 | 57.2 | -11.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Paisley South by-election, 1997 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Douglas Alexander | 10,346 | 44.1 | -13.4 | |
| Scottish National Party | Ian Blackford | 7,615 | 32.5 | +9.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Eileen McCartin | 2,582 | 11.0 | +1.6 | |
| Conservative | Sheila Laidlaw | 1,643 | 7.0 | -1.7 | |
| ProLife Alliance | John Deighan | 578 | 2.5 | N/A | |
| Scottish Socialist | Frances Curran | 306 | 1.3 | +0.9 | |
| Independent | C. McLauchlan | 155 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | C. Herriot | 153 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | Kenneth Blair | 57 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 2,731 | ||||
| Turnout | 42.9 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1997: Paisley South | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Gordon McMaster | 21,482 | 57.5 | ||
| Scottish National Party | William Martin | 8,732 | 23.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Eileen McCartin | 3,500 | 9.4 | ||
| Conservative | Robin Reid | 3,237 | 8.6 | ||
| Referendum Party | James Lardner | 254 | 0.7 | ||
| Scottish Socialist | Sean Clerkin | 146 | 0.4 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
