Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Dunbartonshire
County constituency
Created: 1708
Abolished: 1950
Type: House of Commons

Dunbartonshire was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1950.

In 1950 the Dunbartonshire constituency, along with the constituency of Dumbarton Burghs, was abolished, and the county re-organised into Dunbartonshire East and Dunbartonshire West divisions.

Owing to population growth in the county, caused by overspill from Glasgow into the new town of Cumbernauld and elsewhere, an additional constituency of Dunbartonshire Central was created in February 1974.

There were further boundary changes in 1983, and again in 2005, with the creation of the present day constituencies of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire.

Contents

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Dunbartonshire (1708-1950)

  • 1722 Mungo Haldane
  • 1761 Sir Archibald Edmonstone
  • 1790 Sir Archibald Edmonstone
  • 1796 William Cunninghame Bontine
  • 1797 Alexander Telfer Smollett
  • 1799 James Colquhoun
  • 1806 Henry Glassford
  • 1806 Charles Edmonstone
  • 1807 Henry Glassford
  • 1810 Archibald Campbell-Colquhoun
  • 1830 Lord Montagu William Graham
  • 1832 John Campbell Colquhoun
  • 1835 Alexander Dennistoun
  • 1837 Sir James Colquhoun
  • 1841 Alexander Smollett
  • 1859 Patrick Boyle Smollett
  • 1906 James Dundas White
  • 1910 Arthur Acland Allen
  • 1918 Sir William Hannay Raeburn
  • 1923 William Henry Porteous Martin
  • 1926 John Gibb Thom
  • 1931 John Gibb Thom
  • 1932 Archibald Douglas Cochrane
  • 1936 Thomas Cassells
  • 1941 Adam Storey McKinlay

[edit] Results

By-election 1932: Dunbartonshire
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Com Hon Archibald Douglas Cochrane DSO RN 16,749
Labour Rt Hon Thomas Johnston 13,704
Scottish National Party R. Gray 5,178
Communist H. McIntyre 2,870

[edit] Dunbartonshire East (1950-1983)

[edit] Dunbartonshire West (1950-1983)

  • 1950 Adam Storey McKinlay

[edit] Dunbartonshire Central (1974-1983)

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Results

General Election 1979: Dunbartonshire Central
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Hugh McCartney 20,515 51.9 +11.7
Conservative Nicholas Soames 8,512 21.5 +4.3
Scottish National Party W. Lindsay 6,055 15.3 -13.8
Liberal L. McCreadie 3,099 7.8 -3.0
Communist D. McCafferty 1,017 2.6 -6.1
Christian Democrat R. Darroch 312 0.8 N/A
Majority 12,003 30.4 +19.7
Turnout 80.0 +0.2
Labour hold Swing
General Election October 1974: Dunbartonshire Central
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Hugh McCartney 15,837 40.2 -0.2
Scottish National Party C. Aitken 11,452 29.1 +14.6
Conservative Michael Hirst 6,792 17.2 -6.8
Communist Jimmy Reid 3,417 8.7 -5.9
Liberal J. E. Cameron 1,895 4.8 -1.6
Majority 4,385 11.1 -5.2
Turnout 79.8 -3.2
Labour hold Swing
General Election February 1974: Dunbartonshire Central
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Hugh McCartney 16,439 40.4 N/A
Conservative Michael Hirst 9,775 24.0 N/A
Communist Jimmy Reid 5,928 14.6 N/A
Scottish National Party Andrew Welsh 5,906 14.5 N/A
Liberal C. Harvey 2,583 6.4 N/A
Workers' Revolutionary S. Hammond 52 0.1 N/A
Majority 6,664 16.3 N/A
Turnout 83.0 N/A
Labour hold Swing


General Election 1906: Dunbartonshire
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal James Dundas White 7,404
Conservative Henry Brock 6,937
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