North West Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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

North West 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.

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[edit] Boundaries

The name relates the constituency to the county of Lanark. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the North-West division was to consist of "so much of the Parish of Barony as lies beyond the present boundary of the municipal burgh of Glasgow and to the east of the main line of railway before mentioned (main line of railway between Glasgow and Edinburgh of the North British Railway Company (being the old Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway)), and the parishes of Cadder and Old Monkland". [1]

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1885 John Baird Conservative
1886 Robert Cunninghame-Graham Liberal
1892 Graeme Alexander Lockhart Whitelaw Conservative
1895 John Goundry Holburn
1899 by-election Charles Mackinnon Douglas Liberal
1906 William Lowson Mitchell-Thompson, later Baron Selsdon Unionist
Jan. 1910 William Mather Rutherfurd Pringle Liberal
1918 constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

General Election 1906: North West Lanarkshire [2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Mitchell-Thomson 5,588 40.5
Liberal Charles Mackinnon Douglas 4,913 35.6
Labour J. Sullivan 3,291 23.9
General Election 1892: North West Lanarkshire [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Graeme Alexander Whitelaw 4,770
Liberal Col James C.R. Reade 4,689
Registered Electors 11,408
General Election 1886: North West Lanarkshire [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Robert Cunninghame-Graham 4,030
Conservative John Baird 3,698
General Election 1885: North West Lanarkshire [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Baird 4,545
Liberal Robert Cunninghame-Graham 3,442


[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, Seventh Schedule, Part II
  2. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
  3. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
  4. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
  5. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889

[edit] See also

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