Glasgow Shettleston (UK Parliament constituency)

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Glasgow Shettleston was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 2005. The area is represented is now covered by Glasgow Central and Glasgow East.

Glasgow Shettleston
Burgh constituency
Created: 1918
Abolished: 2005
Type: House of Commons

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[edit] Boundaries

From 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary about 299 yards north-westward from the centre of Carntyne Road, at a point where the municipal boundary intersects that road, thence eastward, south-eastward and westward along the municipal boundary to the centre of the Caledonian Railway Branch Line from Rutherglen to Dalmarnock, thence northward along the centre line of the said railway until it, joins the Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Lines), thence northward, north-eastward, northward and north-eastward along the centre line of the last-mentioned railway to a point 380 yards south of the centre line of Cumbernauld Road, thence south-eastward to the point, of commencement."

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
1918 Thomas Benjamin Stratton Adair Conservative/Unionist
1922 John Wheatley Labour
1930 John McGovern Labour, Independent Labour
1959 Sir Myer Galpern, later Baron Galpern Labour
1979 David Marshall Labour

[edit] Elections

General Election 1935: Glasgow Shettleston
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Labour Party John McGovern 18,377
Conservative R.S. Russell 13,802
Labour G. Beggs 2,610
General Election 1931: Glasgow Shettleston
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Labour Party John McGovern 16,301
Conservative J. Lucas 15,530
Labour J. Marshall 1,856
New Party W.E. Stevenson 402

[edit] See also

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