Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency)
| Stirlingshire | |
|---|---|
|
Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
| Subdivisions of Scotland | Stirlingshire |
| 1708–1918 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by |
Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire Stirling & Clackmannan Western |
Stirlingshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain and later of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
For the 1918 general election it was divided into Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire and Stirling and Clackmannan Western.
Member of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1708 | Henry Cunningham | ||
| 1710 | Sir Hugh Paterson | ||
| 1715 | Mungo Haldane | ||
| 1722 | John Graham | ||
| 1727 | Henry Cunningham | ||
| 1734 | Sir James Campbell | ||
| 1741 | Lord George Graham | ||
| 1747 | Lord Erskine | ||
| 1747 | James Campbell, later Livingstone | ||
| 1768 | Sir Thomas Dundas | ||
| 1794 | Robert Graham | ||
| 1796 | Sir George Keith Elphinstone | ||
| 1802 | Charles Elphinstone Fleeming | ||
| 1812 | Sir Charles Edmonstone | ||
| 1821 | Henry Home-Drummond | ||
| 1831 | William Ramsay Ramsay | ||
| 1832 | Charles Elphinstone Fleeming | ||
| 1835 | William Forbes | ||
| 1838 | George Abercromby | ||
| 1841 | William Forbes | ||
| 1855 | Peter Blackburn | ||
| 1865 | John Elphinstone Erskine | ||
| 1874 | Sir William Edmonstone | Conservative | |
| 1880 | Joseph Cheney Bolton | Liberal | |
| 1892 | William Jacks | Liberal | |
| 1895 | James McKillop | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Donald Mackenzie Smeaton | Liberal | |
| 1910 | William Allan Chapple | Liberal | |
| 1918 | constituency abolished | ||
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
| General Election 1880: Stirlingshire [1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Joseph Cheney Bolton | 1,606 | |||
| Conservative | William Edmonstone | 1,246 | |||
| Majority | 360 | ||||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1885: Stirlingshire [2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Joseph Cheney Bolton | 6,454 | 62.1 | ||
| Conservative | Michael Hugh Shaw-Stewart | 3,938 | 37.9 | ||
| Majority | 2,516 | 24.2 | |||
| Turnout | 83.2 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Ernest Noel
| General Election 1886: Stirlingshire [3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Joseph Cheney Bolton | 5,067 | 53.7 | -8.4 | |
| Liberal Unionist | Ernest Noel | 4,360 | 46.3 | +8.4 | |
| Majority | 707 | 7.4 | -16.8 | ||
| Turnout | 75.5 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -8.4 | |||
Elections in the 1890s
William Jacks
| General Election 1892: Stirlingshire [4] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | William Jacks | 5,296 | 50.4 | ||
| Liberal Unionist | Ernest Noel | 4,550 | 43.3 | ||
| S.U.T.C. Labour | Robert Chisholm Robertson | 663 | 6.3 | n/a | |
| Majority | 746 | 7.1 | |||
| Turnout | 80.1 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1895: Stirlingshire [5] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | James McKillop | 5,916 | 51.9 | -2.3 | |
| Liberal | William Jacks | 5,489 | 48.1 | +8.6 | |
| Majority | 427 | 3.8 | 10.9 | ||
| Turnout | 79.6 | -0.5 | |||
| Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +5.4 | |||
Elections in the 1900s
Sir G Robertson
| General Election 1900: Stirlingshire [6] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | James McKillop | 6,325 | 51.2 | ||
| Liberal | Sir George Scott Robertson | 6,023 | 48.8 | ||
| Majority | 302 | 2.4 | |||
| Turnout | 76.3 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1906: Stirlingshire [7] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Donald Mackenzie Smeaton | 9,475 | 62.0 | +13.2 | |
| Conservative | Marquess of Graham | 5,806 | 38.0 | -13.2 | |
| Majority | 24.0 | 26.4 | |||
| Turnout | 80.7 | +4.4 | |||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +13.2 | |||
Elections in the 1910s
William Chapple
| General Election Jan 1910: Stirlingshire [8] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | William Allan Chapple MD | 10,122 | 61.2 | ||
| Conservative | Robert Stevenson Horne | 6,417 | 38.8 | ||
| Majority | 3,705 | 22.4 | |||
| Turnout | 82.1 | ||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Robert Horne
| General Election Dec 1910: Stirlingshire [9] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | William Allan Chapple | 9,183 | 58.6 | -2.6 | |
| Conservative | Robert Stevenson Horne | 6,487 | 41.4 | +2.6 | |
| Majority | 17.2 | -5.2 | |||
| Turnout | 77.2 | -4.9 | |||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -2.6 | |||
General Election 1914/15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: William Allan Chapple
- Unionist: Andrew B. King[10]
References
- ↑ The Times
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
- ↑ Stirling Observer 21 Mar 1914
