Galloway (UK Parliament constituency)

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Galloway County constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Galloway was a county constituency in the Galloway area of Scotland. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was replaced by the new Galloway and Upper Nithsdale (which was itself abolished in 2005 and replaced by Dumfries and Galloway).

Contents 1 Members of Parliament 2 Election results 2.1 Elections in the 1920s 2.2 Elections in the 1930s 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Gilbert McMicking	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	Liberal
	1924	Sir Arthur Henniker-Hughan, Bt.	Conservative
	1925 by-election	Sidney Richard Streatfeild	Conservative
	1929	Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	Liberal
	1931	John Hamilton Mackie	Conservative
	1959	John Brewis	Conservative
	Oct. 1974	George Thompson	Scottish National Party
	1979	Ian Lang, later Baron Lang of Monkton	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished: see Galloway and Upper Nithsdale

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1924: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Arthur Henniker-Hughan	12,268	53.1	N/A
	Liberal	Cecil Dudgeon	10,852	46.9	N/A
Majority			1,416	6.2	N/A
Turnout				76.8	N/A
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

Galloway by-election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sidney Richard Streatfeild	10,846	43.5	−9.6
	Liberal	Cecil Dudgeon	9,918	39.7	−9.2
	Labour	J. Mitchell	4,207	16.8	N/A
Majority			928	3.8	−2.4
Turnout				83.3	+6.5
	Unionist hold		Swing	−

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Hamilton Mackie	18,993
	Liberal	E.M. Campbell	9,176
	Labour	Hector McNeil	3,418
	New Party	Maj Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	986

[edit] See also

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[edit] References

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page