Kilmarnock (UK Parliament constituency)

For the 1832–1918 constituency, see Kilmarnock Burghs (UK Parliament constituency).

Kilmarnock
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Ayrshire
Major settlements	Kilmarnock
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Created from	Kilmarnock Burghs

Kilmarnock was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The constituency included the area of the former parliamentary burgh of Kilmarnock. The parliamentary burgh had been, previously, a component of the Kilmarnock Burghs constituency.

Prominent Members for this seat included long-serving Scottish Secretary Willie Ross, and senior judge Craigie Mason Aitchison

Boundaries

1918 to 1950

The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 as one of four constituencies covering the county of Ayr and the county of Bute. Of the other three constituencies, two were county constituencies: Bute and Northern Ayrshire and South Ayrshire. The third, Ayr Burghs, was a district of burghs constituency. All four constituencies were entirely within the boundaries of the two counties.

The Kilmarnock constituency consisted of "The county district of Kilmarnock, inclusive of all burghs situated therein except insofar as included in the Ayr District of Burghs."

The counties of Ayr and Bute had been covered, previously, by the five constituencies of Ayr Burghs, Buteshire, Kilmarnock Burghs, North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire. Two of these, Ayr Burghs and Kilmarnock Burghs, had included areas (parliamentary burghs) outside the two counties.

1950 to 1974

Constituency boundaries were redrawn in 1950, creating five constituencies to cover the counties of Ayr and Bute. Ayr Burghs was abolished and two new county constituencies, Ayr and Central Ayrshire, were created. Part of the Kilmarnock constituency was transferred to the new Central Ayrshire constituency.

1974 to 1975

In 1974, the boundary between the Kilmarnock and Ayrshire Central constituencies was redrawn to enlarge Kilmarnock.

1975 to 1983

In 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, local government counties were abolished and replaced by a system of regions and districts. The areas of the counties of Ayr and Bute were merged into the Strathclyde region and, thus, the Kilmarnock constituency became one of a number covering the region. Eight years were to elapse before new constituency boundaries took account of new local government boundaries.

In 1983 the Kilmarnock constituency was merged into the Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[1]	Party
	1918	Alexander Shaw	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Alexander Shaw	National Liberal
	1923	Robert Climie	Labour
	1924	Charles Glen MacAndrew	Scottish Unionist Party
	1929	Robert Climie	Labour
	1929 by-election	Craigie Mason Aitchison	Labour
	1931	Craigie Mason Aitchison	National Labour
	1933 by-election	Kenneth Lindsay	National Labour
	1945	Clarice Shaw	Labour
	1946 by-election	Willie Ross	Labour
	1979	Willie McKelvey	Labour
1983		constituency abolished: see Kilmarnock and Loudoun

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Alexander Shaw

General Election, May 1918: Kilmarnock ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hon. Alexander Shaw	13,568	67.1	n/a
	Co-operative Party	Peter Malcolm	6,652	32.9	n/a
Majority			6,916	34.2	n/a
Turnout			20,220	62.6	n/a
	Liberal win

endorsed by Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election, 1922: Kilmarnock ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Hon. Alexander Shaw	12,991	54.7	-2.4
	Labour	Robert Climie	10,752	45.3	+2.4
Majority			2,239	9.4	-4.8
Turnout				71.5	+8.9
	National Liberal hold		Swing	-2.4

Sir Donald Maclean

General Election, 1923: Kilmarnock ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Climie	10,922	43.2	-2.1
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Sir Donald Maclean	8,185	32.1	-22.6
	Unionist	Alexander Morrice Mackay	6,298	24.7	n/a
Majority			2,8.7	11.1	20.5
Turnout				75.7	+4.2
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing	+10.2

General Election, 1924: Kilmarnock ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Charles Glen MacAndrew	14,237	52.2	+27.5
	Labour	Robert Climie	13,054	47.8	+4.6
Majority			1,183	4.4	24.9
Turnout				79.5	+3.8
	Unionist gain from Labour		Swing	+11.4

General Election, May 1929: Kilmarnock
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Climie	17,368	48.2	+0.4
	Unionist	Charles Glen MacAndrew	10,939	30.4	−21.8
	Liberal	James Rankin Rutherford	7,700	21.4	N/A
Majority			6,429	17.8	N/A
Turnout			36,007	77.8	−0.7
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+11.2

Kilmarnock by-election, 1929 Electorate 46,310
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rt Hon. Craigie Mason Aitchison	18,465	55.6	+7.4
	Unionist	Charles Glen MacAndrew	13,270	40.0	+9.6
	Communist	Isabel Brown	1,448	4.4	N/A
Majority			5,195	15.6	−2.2
Turnout			33,183	71.7	−6.1
	Labour hold		Swing	12.6

Elections in the 1930s

General Election, October 1931: Kilmarnock Electorate 46,006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Labour	Rt Hon. Craigie Mason Aitchison	21,803	59.6	N/A
	Ind. Labour Party	John Pollock	14,767	40.4	N/A
Majority			7,036	19.2	+3.6
Turnout			36,580	79.5	+7.8
	National Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Kilmarnock by-election, 1933 Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Labour	Kenneth Martin Lindsay	12,577	34.8	−24.8
	Labour	James Barr	9,924	27.4	N/A
	Ind. Labour Party	John Pollock	7,575	20.9	−19.5
	Scottish Party	Sir Alexander McEwen	6,098	16.9	N/A
Majority			2,653	7.4	−11.8
Turnout				77.3	−2.2
	National Labour hold		Swing	N/A

General Election, 1935: Kilmarnock ^[6] Electorate 47,734
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Labour	Kenneth Martin Lindsay	19,115	50.9	+16.1
	Labour	J. Crawford	12,558	33.4	+6.0
	Ind. Labour Party	John Pollock	3,582	9.5	-11.4
	SNP	T.W. Campbell	2,346	6.2	-10.7
Majority			6,557	17.5	+10.1
Turnout				78.8	+1.5
	National Labour hold		Swing	+5.0

Elections in the 1940s

General Election, July 1945: Kilmarnock Electorate 52,721
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Clarice Marion McNab Shaw	23,837	59.4	+26.0
	Unionist	George E.O. Walker	16,300	40.6	N/A
Majority			7,537	18.8
Turnout			40,137	76.1	−2.7
	Labour gain from National Labour		Swing	N/A

Kilmarnock by-election, 1946 Electorate 55,022
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Ross	22,456	59.7	+0.3
	Unionist	George E.O. Walker	12,239	32.5	−8.1
	SNP	George Dott	2,932	7.8	N/A
Majority			10,217	27.2	+8.4
Turnout			37,627	68.4	−7.7
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.2

Elections in the 1950s

General Election, 1959: Kilmarnock^[7] Electorate 49,090
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Ross	25,379	62.7	+1.8
	Conservative	R. Ian McNaught	15,087	37.3	-1.8
Majority			10,292	25.4	+3.6
Turnout			40,466
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.8

Elections in the 1970s

General Election, Oct 1974 : Kilmarnock ^[8] Electorate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Ross	22,184
	SNP	Alistair MacInnes	14,655
	Conservative	William Adams	9,203
	Liberal	K. Purcell	2,508
Majority			7,529
	Labour hold		Swing

References

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
↑ The Times, 17 November 1922
↑ The Times, 8 December 1923
↑ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1963
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1977

Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

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