Galloway (UK Parliament constituency)

Galloway
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1918–1983
Number of members One
Replaced by Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
Created from Dumfries Burghs, Kirkcudbright Stewartry and Wigtownshire

Galloway was a county constituency in the Galloway area of Scotland. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system.

It was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituency.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1918 Gilbert McMicking Coalition Liberal
1922 Cecil Randolph Dudgeon Liberal
1924 Sir Arthur Henniker-Hughan, Bt. Unionist
1925 by-election Sidney Richard Streatfeild Unionist
1929 Cecil Randolph Dudgeon Liberal
1931 New Party
1931 John Mackie Unionist
1959 John Brewis Unionist
Oct 1974 George Thompson SNP
1979 Ian Lang Conservative
1983 constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Gilbert McMicking
General Election 1918: Galloway [1]

Electorate

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Liberal Major Gilbert McMicking unopposed n/a n/a

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Galloway [2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Cecil Randolph Dudgeon 12,406
Unionist Hon W Watson 10,557
Majority 1,849 N/A
Liberal gain from Coalition Liberal Swing N/A
General Election 1923: Galloway [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Cecil Randolph Dudgeon unopposed
General Election 1924

Electorate 30,107

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Sir Arthur Henniker-Hughan 12,268 53.1 N/A
Liberal Cecil Randolph Dudgeon 10,852 46.9 N/A
Majority 1,416 6.2 N/A
Turnout 76.8 N/A
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing N/A
Galloway by-election, 1925

Electorate 29,992

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Sidney Richard Streatfeild 10,846 43.5 −9.6
Liberal Cecil Randolph Dudgeon 9,918 39.7 −9.2
Labour J. Mitchell 4,207 16.8 N/A
Majority 928 3.8 −2.4
Turnout 83.3 +6.5
Unionist hold Swing −
General Election 1929

Electorate 39,621 [4]

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Cecil Randolph Dudgeon 13,461 42.4 +2.7
Unionist Sidney Richard Streatfeild 13,360 42.1 -1.4
Labour Hector McNeill 4,903 15.5 -1.3
Majority 101 0.3 4.1
Turnout 80.1 -3.2
Liberal gain from Unionist Swing +2.1

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Galloway[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist John Hamilton Mackie 18,993 58.3
Liberal Edward Maitland Campbell 9,176 28.2
Labour Hector McNeil 3,418 10.5
New Party Maj Cecil Randolph Dudgeon 986 3.0
General Election 1935: Galloway [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist John Hamilton Mackie unopposed

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939/40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

General Election 1945

Electorate 47,809

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Unionist John Hamilton Mackie 13,647
Labour RN Hales 11,822
Unionist B Fergusson 8,032
Majority
Turnout
Independent Unionist gain from Unionist Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1955: Galloway
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist John Hamilton Mackie 15,893 66.86
Labour W S Gray 7,879 33.14
Majority 8,014 33.71 -
Galloway by-election, 1959
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Henry John Beverley Brewis 13,204 49.93 -16.41
Liberal Simon Brooke Mackay 6,721 25.42 N/A
Labour W Cross 6,520 24.65 -9.26
Majority 6,483
Unionist hold Swing

References

  1. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
  2. ↑ The Times, 17 November 1922
  3. ↑ The Times, 8 December 1923
  4. ↑ The Times, 1 June 1929
  5. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
  6. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939