Mid Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Mid Lanarkshire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland county of Lanark
1885 (1885)–1918 (1918)
Number of members One

Mid 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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Boundaries

The name relates the constituency to the county of Lanark. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the Mid division was to consist of "the parishes of Rutherglen, Carmunnock, so much of the parish of Cathcart as adjoins the two last-mentioned parishes, Cambuslang, Blantyre, so much of the parish of Hamilton as lies south and west of the River Clyde, Dalserf and Cambusnethan".[1]

Members of Parliament

Election Member[2] Party
1885 Stephen Mason Liberal
1888 by-election John Wynford Philipps, later Viscount St Davids Liberal
1894 by-election James Caldwell Liberal
Jan. 1910 John Howard Whitehouse Liberal
1918 constituency abolished

Election results

General Election Dec 1910: Mid Lanarkshire [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Howard Whitehouse 6,033
Conservative Henry Shanks Keith 5,702
Labour Robert Smillie 3,847
General Election Jan 1910: Mid Lanarkshire [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Howard Whitehouse 5,792
Conservative John Johnson Pickering 5,401
Labour Robert Smillie 3,864
General Election 1906: Mid Lanarkshire [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal James Caldwell 7,246
Conservative Capt Duncan F. Campbell 4,470
Independent A.S. Gibson 758
General Election 1900: Mid Lanarkshire [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal James Caldwell 5,267
Conservative Charles Kincaid MacKenzie 5,075
General Election 1895: Mid Lanarkshire [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal James Caldwell 4,447
Liberal Unionist Charles Kincaid MacKenzie 4,376
General Election 1892: Mid Lanarkshire [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Philipps 4,611
Conservative Col Robert E.S. Harington-Stuart 3,489
27 April 1888 by-election: Mid Lanarkshire [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Philipps 3,847 52.1 -4.5
Conservative William Bousfield 2,917 39.5 -4.0
Independent Labour Keir Hardie 617 8.4 N/A
Majority 930 12.6 -0.4
Turnout 7,381 80.7 +5.9
Liberal hold Swing
Registered electors 9,143
General Election 1886: Mid Lanarkshire [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Stephen Mason 3,779 56.5
Liberal Unionist James Widrington Shand-Harvey 2,909 43.5
Majority 870 13.0
Turnout 6,688 74.8
Liberal hold Swing
Registered electors 8,939
General Election 1885: Mid Lanarkshire [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Stephen Mason 2,875
Conservative William Robert Bousfield 2,579
Liberal John Clark Forrest 1,913

References

  1. ^ Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, Seventh Schedule, Part II
  2. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)
  3. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
  4. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
  5. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
  6. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
  7. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
  8. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
  9. ^ Craig
  10. ^ (1) Craig. (2) Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
  11. ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889

See also