Kilmarnock (UK Parliament constituency)

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

Kilmarnock was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The constituency included the area of the former parliamentary burgh of Kilmarnock. The parliamentary burgh had been, previously, a component of the Kilmarnock Burghs constituency.

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[edit] Boundaries

[edit] 1918 to 1950

The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 as one of four constituencies covering the county of Ayr and the county of Bute. Of the other three constituencies, two were county constituencies: Bute and Northern Ayrshire and South Ayrshire. The third, Ayr Burghs, was a district of burghs constituency. All four constituencies were entirely within the boundaries of the two counties.

The Kilmarnock constituency consisted of "The county district of Kilmarnock, inclusive of all burghs situated therein except insofar as included in the Ayr District of Burghs."

The counties of Ayr and Bute had been covered, previously, by the five constituencies of Ayr Burghs, Buteshire, Kilmarnock Burghs, North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire. Two of these, Ayr Burghs and Kilmarnock Burghs, had included areas (parliamentary burghs) outside the two counties.

[edit] 1950 to 1974

Constituency boundaries were redrawn in 1950, creating five constituencies to cover the counties of Ayr and Bute. Ayr Burghs was abolished and two new county constituencies, Ayr and Central Ayrshire, were created. Part of the Kilmarnock constituency was transferred to the new Central Ayrshire constituency.

[edit] 1974 to 1975

In 1974, the boundary between the Kilmarnock and Ayrshire Central constituencies was redrawn to enlarge Kilmarnock.

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[edit] 1975 to 1983

In 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, local government counties were abolished and replaced by a system of regions and districts. The areas of the counties of Ayr and Bute were merged into the Strathclyde region and, thus, the Kilmarnock constituency became one of a number covering the region. Eight years were to elapse before new constituency boundaries took account of new local government boundaries.

In 1983 the Kilmarnock constituency was merged into the Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency.

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1918 Alexander Shaw Coalition Liberal
1922 Liberal
1923 Robert Climie Labour
1924 Charles Glen MacAndrew Scottish Unionist Party
1929 Robert Climie Labour
1929 by-election Craigie Mason Aitchison Labour
1931 National Labour
1933 by-election Kenneth Martin Lindsay National Labour
1945 Clarice Marion McNab Shaw Labour
1946 by-election William Ross Labour
1979 William McKelvey Labour
1983 constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1910s

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[edit] Elections in the 1920s

General Election, May 1929: Kilmarnock
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Robert Climie 17,368 48.2 +0.4
Unionist Charles Glen MacAndrew 10,939 30.4 −21.8
Liberal J. R. Rutherford 7,700 21.4 N/A
Majority 6,429 17.8 N/A
Turnout 36,007 77.8 −0.7
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +11.2
Kilmarnock by-election, 27 November 1929
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Craigie Mason Aitchison 18,465 55.6 +7.4
Unionist Charles Glen MacAndrew 13,270 40.0 +9.6
Communist I. Brown 1,448 4.4 N/A
Majority 5,195 15.6 −2.2
Turnout 33,183 71.7 −6.1
Labour hold Swing 12.6

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

General Election, October 1931: Kilmarnock
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Labour Craigie Aitchison 21,803 59.6 N/A
Ind. Labour Party J. Pollock 14,767 40.4 N/A
Majority 7,036 19.2 +3.6
Turnout 36,580 79.5 +7.8
National Labour hold Swing N/A
Kilmarnock by-election, 2 November 1933
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Labour Kenneth Lindsay 12,577 34.8 −24.8
Labour J. Barr 9,924 27.4 N/A
Ind. Labour Party J. Pollock 7,575 20.9 −19.5
National (Scotland) Sir A. M. MacEwain 6,098 16.9 N/A
Majority 2,653 7.4 −11.8
Turnout 77.3 −2.2
National Labour hold Swing N/A

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

General Election, July 1945: Kilmarnock
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Clarice Shaw 23,837 59.4 +26.0
Unionist G. E. O. Walker 16,300 40.6 N/A
Majority 7,537 18.8
Turnout 40,137 76.1 −2.7
Labour gain from National Labour Swing N/A
Kilmarnock by-election, 5 December 1946
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Willie Ross 22,456 59.7 +0.3
Unionist George E. O. Walker 12,239 32.5 −8.1
Scottish National Party George Dott 2,932 7.8 N/A
Majority 10,217 27.2 +8.4
Turnout 37,627 68.4 −7.7
Labour hold Swing +4.2

[edit] See also

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Westminster constituencies of Scotland
Aberdeen North · Aberdeen South · Airdrie & Shotts · Angus · Argyll & Bute · Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock · Banff & Buchan · Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk · Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross · Central Ayrshire · Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill · Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East · Dumfries & Galloway · Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale · Dundee East · Dundee West · Dunfermline & West Fife · East Dunbartonshire · East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow · East Lothian · East Renfrewshire · Edinburgh East · Edinburgh North & Leith · Edinburgh South · Edinburgh South West · Edinburgh West · Falkirk · Glasgow Central · Glasgow East · Glasgow North · Glasgow North East · Glasgow North West · Glasgow South · Glasgow South West · Glenrothes · Gordon · Inverclyde · Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey · Kilmarnock & Loudoun · Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath · Lanark & Hamilton East · Linlithgow & East Falkirk · Livingston · Midlothian · Moray · Motherwell & Wishaw · Na h-Eileanan an Iar · North Ayrshire & Arran · North East Fife · Ochil & South Perthshire · Orkney & Shetland · Paisley & Renfrewshire North · Paisley & Renfrewshire South · Perth & North Perthshire · Ross, Skye & Lochaber · Rutherglen & Hamilton West · Stirling · West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine · West Dunbartonshire

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