North East Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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North East Lanarkshire County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1918
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	One

North East Lanarkshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1885 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Member of Parliament 3 Election results 4 References 5 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The name relates the constituency to the county of Lanark. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the North-East division was to consist of "the parishes of New Monkland, Shotts, Dalziel, Bothwell, and so much of the parish of Hamilton as lies north and east of the River Clyde". ^[1]

[edit] Member of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Donald Crawford	Liberal
	1895	John Colville	Liberal
	1901 by-election	Sir William Henry Rattigan	Liberal Unionist
	1904 by-election	Alexander Findlay
	1910	Thomas Fleming Wilson	Liberal
	1911 by-election	James Duncan Millar	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

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General Election 1906: North East Lanarkshire [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alexander Finlay	6,436	40.4
	Conservative	Hugh Elliot	4,838	30.4
	Labour	J. Robertson	4,658	29.2

General Election 1886: North East Lanarkshire [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Donald Crawford	4,269
	Liberal Unionist	Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke Bt	3,990

General Election 1885: North East Lanarkshire [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Donald Crawford	4,564
	Conservative	John Charles Cunninghame	4,405

[edit] References

1. ^ Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, Seventh Schedule, Part II
2. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
3. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
4. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889

[edit] See also

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