Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire
County constituency
Created: 1918
Abolished: 1997
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire was a parliamentary constituency in the Clackmannan area of Central Scotland. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, MP elected by the first past the post system.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was replaced by the new Clackmannan constituency.

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1918 Ralph George Campbell Glyn Coalition Conservative
1922 Lauchlin MacNeill Weir Labour
1931 James Wellwood Johnston Conservative
1935 Lauchlin MacNeill Weir Labour
1939 Arthur Woodburn Labour
1970 Dick Douglas Labour Co-operative
1974 (Feb) George Newlands Reid SNP
1979 Martin John O'Neill Labour
1983 Constituency abolished: see Clackmannan

[edit] Politics and history of the constituency

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[edit] Results

General Election 1931: Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Wellwood Johnston 20,425
Labour Lauchlin MacNeill Weir 13,669

[edit] See also

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