Glasgow Tradeston (UK Parliament constituency)

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Glasgow Tradeston
Burgh constituency
Created: 1885
Abolished: 1955
Type: House of Commons

Glasgow Tradeston was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1955.

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[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 centre of Glasgow Bridge at the centre line of the River Clyde, thence southward along the centre line of Glasgow Bridge, Bridge Street and Eglinton Street to the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway at Eglinton Street Station, thence westward along the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway (Paisley Canal Line) to the centre line of Shields Road, thence northwards along the centre line of Shields Road to the centre line of the Caledonian Railway, thence westward along the centre line of the said Caledonian Railway and the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway to a point in line with the centre line of Church Road, thence northward along the centre line of Church Road, Whitefield Road, and the portion of Govan Road to the west of Princes Dock and continuation thereof to the centre line of the River Clyde, thence eastward along the centre line of the River Clyde to the point of commencement."

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1885 Archibald Cameron Corbett, later Baron Rowallan Liberal Unionist
1911 James Dundas White
1918 Vivian Leonard Henderson Unionist
1922 Thomas Henderson Labour Co-operative
1931 William Hannah McLean Unionist
1935 Thomas Henderson Labour Co-operative
1945 John Rankin Labour Co-operative
1955 constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

General Election 1935: Glasgow Tradeston
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Thomas Henderson CBE 12,253
Conservative William Hannah MacLean PhD 10,354
Ind. Labour Party James Carmichael 3,423
General Election 1935: Glasgow Tradeston
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Hannah MacLean PhD 15,067
Labour Thomas Henderson CBE 13,579
General Election 1906: Glasgow Tradeston
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Archibald Corbett 4,416 50.6
Liberal D.M. Mason 4,063 46.6
Conservative A. Rosenthal 245 2.8
General Election 1886: Glasgow Tradeston
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Archibald Corbett 3,878
Liberal Prof J.M.D. Mieklejohn 3,174
General Election 1885: Glasgow Tradeston
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Archibald Corbett 4,354
Conservative James Somervell 3,240
Liberal Wallace McGuffin Greaves 86

[edit] See also

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