Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West County constituency |
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| Created: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire was a Scottish constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1950.
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[edit] Boundaries
In 1868, the constituency of Aberdeenshire was divided into Aberdeenshire Eastern and Aberdeenshire Western divisions. These continued as constituencies until 1918, when the county of Aberdeenshire and the county of Kincardineshire were treated as if a single county for parliamentary representation purposes, with the area of the former Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire constituencies being divided into three new constituencies, Aberdeen and Kincardine East, Aberdeen and Kincardine Central and Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West. In 1950 the Kincardinshire and Aberdeenshire counties were separated again, and a new boundary divided the Aberdeenshire area into East Aberdeenshire and West Aberdeenshire.
From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The county of Kincardine, inclusive of all burghs situated therein except the burgh of Inverbervie and that portion of the county of the city of Aberdeen which is situated within the said county of Kincardine, together with the county districts of Alford and Deeside, inclusive of all burghs situated therein."
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1918 | Arthur Cecil Murray | Coalition Liberal | |
| 1922 | Liberal | ||
| 1923 | Malcolm Barclay-Harvey | Conservative | |
| 1929 | James Scott | Liberal | |
| 1931 | Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey | Conservative | |
| 1939 | Colin Thornton-Kemsley | Conservative | |
| 1950 | constituency abolished | ||
[edit] Election results
[edit] Elections in the 1930s
| General Election 1931: Kincardine & Western Aberdeenshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Malcolm Barclay-Harvey | 14,266 | |||
| Liberal | James Scott | 8,890 | |||
