Glasgow Gorbals (UK Parliament constituency)

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Glasgow Gorbals Burgh constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1974
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Glasgow Gorbals was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Glasgow. From 1918 until 1974, it returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1950s 3.2 Elections in the 1940s 3.3 Elections in the 1930s 3.4 Elections in the 1920s 3.5 Elections in the 1910s 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

In 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary at the centre line of the River Clyde about 77 yards east of the centre of Rutherglen Bridge, thence southwestward along the municipal boundary to the centre of the Caledonian Railway Main Line from Glasgow to Rutherglen, thence north-westward along the centre line of the said Caledonian Railway to the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway, thence south-westward along the centre line of the said Glasgow and South Western Railway to the centre line of Victoria Road, thence northward along the centre line of Victoria Road, Eglinton Street, Bridge Street and Glasgow Bridge to the centre line of the River Clyde, thence south-eastward along the centre line of the River Clyde to the point of commencement."

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1918	George Nicoll Barnes	Coalition National Democratic
	1922	George Buchanan	Labour
	1931		Ind. Labour Party
	1948	Alice Cullen	Labour
	1969	Francis Patrick McElhone	Labour
1974		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Glasgow Gorbals
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alice Cullen	20,731	63.3
	Conservative	W. C. Hunter	10,072	30.8
	Communist	Peter Kerrigan	1,932	5.9
Majority			10,659	32.6
Turnout				68.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Glasgow Gorbals
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alice Cullen	22,567	61.2
	Conservative	W. B. Thomson	11,839	32.1
	Communist	Peter Kerrigan	2,491	6.8
Majority			10,728	29.1
Turnout				65.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Glasgow Gorbals
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alice Cullen	25,288	61.8
	Conservative	J. A. Young	13,069	32.0
	Communist	Peter Kerrigan	2,553	6.2
Majority			12,219	29.9
Turnout				76.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1950: Glasgow Gorbals
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alice Cullen	24,010	58.0	N/A
	Conservative	J. A. Young	13,013	31.5
	Communist	Peter Kerrigan	2,426	5.9	N/A
	Anti-Partition	W. McGuinness	1,920	4.6	N/A
Majority			10.997	26.6
Turnout				76.8
	Labour gain from Ind. Labour Party		Swing	N/A

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

Glasgow Gorbals by-election, 1948
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alice Cullen	13,706		N/A
	Conservative	W. Roxburgh	7,181
	Communist	Peter Kerrigan	4,233		N/A
Majority
Turnout
	Labour gain from Ind. Labour Party		Swing	N/A

General Election 1945: Glasgow Gorbals
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Buchanan	21,073	80.0
	Conservative	I. A. MacTaggart	5,269	20.0
Majority			15,804	60.0
Turnout				56.9
	Ind. Labour Party hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Glasgow Gorbals
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Labour Party	George Buchanan	22,860
	Conservative	M. Bloch	5,824
	Labour	A. Burnett	1,786
	Ind. Labour Party hold		Swing

General Election 1931: Glasgow Gorbals
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Labour Party	George Buchanan	19,278
	Conservative	M. Bloch	11,264
	Communist	Harry McShane	2,626
	Ind. Labour Party hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Glasgow Gorbals
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Buchanan	16,478
	National Liberal	B. Harper	8,276
	Independent Communist	John Maclean	4,027
	Labour gain from Coalition National Democratic		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Glasgow Gorbals
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition National Democratic	George Nicoll Barnes	14,347
	Labour	John Maclean	7,436
	Coalition National Democratic gain from Labour		Swing

[edit] See also

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