Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1983 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Clackmannan, Falkirk East and Falkirk West[1] |
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire was a parliamentary constituency in the Clackmannan area of Central Scotland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was replaced by the new Clackmannan constituency.
Boundaries
Following the Representation of the People Act 1948, the seat of Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire was described in 1950 as being composed of:
- The Burgh of Clackmannan
- Three wards of Stirlingshire, named at the time as Eastern No. 1, Eastern No. 2, and Eastern No. 3[2]
This would continue until the seat's abolition in 1983.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member [3] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1918 | Ralph Glyn | Unionist | |
1922 | Lauchlin MacNeill Weir | Labour | |
1931 | James Wellwood Johnston | Unionist | |
1935 | Lauchlin MacNeill Weir | Labour | |
1939 by-election | Arthur Woodburn | Labour | |
1970 | Dick Douglas | Labour Co-operative | |
Feb 1974 | George Reid | SNP | |
1979 | Martin O'Neill | Labour | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Clackmannan |
Elections
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Maj. Ralph George Campbell Glyn | 6,771 | |||
Co-operative Party | Henry John May | 5,753 | |||
Liberal | Maj. William Allan Chapple | 5,040 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist win | |||||
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lauchlin MacNeill Weir | 10,312 | 42.0 | ||
Liberal | Craigie Mason Aitchison | 7,379 | 30.0 | ||
Unionist | Ralph George Campbell Glyn | 6,888 | 28.0 | ||
Majority | 2,933 | 12.0 | |||
Turnout | 24,579 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lauchlin MacNeill Weir | 10,492 | |||
Liberal | Craigie Mason Aitchison | 10,043 | |||
Majority | 449 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lauchlin MacNeill Weir | 13,032 | 52.6 | ||
Liberal | Edwin James Donaldson | 11,752 | 47.4 | ||
Majority | 1,280 | 5.2 | |||
Turnout | 24,784 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lauchlin MacNeill Weir | 17,667 | 53.2 | +0.6 | |
Unionist | Harold Paton Mitchell | 8,778 | 26.4 | n/a | |
Liberal | Edwin James Donaldson | 6,760 | 20.4 | -27.0 | |
Majority | 8,889 | 26.8 | +21.6 | ||
Turnout | 33,205 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | James Wellwood Johnston | 20,425 | 59.9 | ||
Labour | Lauchlin MacNeill Weir | 13,669 | 40.1 | ||
Majority | 6,756 | 19.8 | |||
Turnout | 34,094 | 77.7 | |||
Unionist gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lauchlin MacNeill Weir | 14,881 | 42.3 | ||
Unionist | James Wellwood Johnston | 13,738 | 39.0 | ||
Liberal | George Gordon Honeyman | 5,062 | 14.4 | ||
Ind. Labour Party | David W Gibson | 1,513 | 4.3 | ||
Majority | 1,143 | 3.2 | |||
Turnout | 35,194 | 76.2 | |||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Woodburn | 15,645 | 93.7 | ||
Pacifist | Andrew Stewart | 1,060 | 6.4 | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 35.4 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Woodburn | 24,622 | 62.9 | ||
Unionist | John Edward Gilmour | 14,522 | 37.1 | ||
Majority | 10,100 | 25.8 | |||
Turnout | 71.9 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Woodburn | 22,980 | 56.5 | ||
Unionist | Spencer Douglas Loch | 13,630 | 33.5 | ||
Liberal | Charles Hampton Johnston | 4,078 | 10.0 | ||
Majority | 9,350 | 23.0 | |||
Turnout | 83.4 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Woodburn | 25,231 | 58.7 | ||
Unionist | Spencer Douglas Loch | 17,727 | 41.3 | ||
Majority | 7,504 | 17.5 | |||
Turnout | 85.7 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Woodburn | 23,588 | 58.7 | ||
Unionist | Raymond Craigie Aitchison | 7,009 | 41.3 | ||
Majority | 9,350 | 17.4 | |||
Turnout | 79.8 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Woodburn | 25,004 | 59.3 | ||
Unionist | Raymond Craigie Aitchison | 17,132 | 40.7 | ||
Majority | 7,872 | 18.9 | |||
Turnout | 80.7 | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Woodburn | 23,927 | 57.2 | ||
Unionist | Angus MacDonald | 12,815 | 30.6 | ||
SNP | Charles Douglas Drysdale | 5,106 | 12.2 | ||
Majority | 11,112 | 26.5 | |||
Turnout | 79.8 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Woodburn | 22,557 | 55.3 | ||
Conservative | Angus MacDonald | 10,037 | 24.5 | ||
SNP | Charles Douglas Drysdale | 8,225 | 20.1 | ||
Majority | 12,520 | 30.7 | |||
Turnout | 77.5 | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Richard Giles Douglas | 23,729 | 50.7 | ||
Conservative | James Fairlie | 13,178 | 28.2 | ||
SNP | Ian Macdonald | 7,243 | 15.5 | ||
Liberal | Robert E. Bell | 2,640 | 5.6 | ||
Majority | 10,551 | 22.5 | |||
Turnout | 46,790 | 75.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SNP | George Newlands Reid | 22,289 | 43.5 | ||
Labour Co-op | Richard Giles Douglas | 18,679 | 36.4 | ||
Conservative | A.H. Lester | 9,994 | 19.5 | ||
Communist | George Bolton | 322 | 0.6 | ||
Majority | 3,610 | 7.0 | |||
Turnout | 82.4 | ||||
SNP gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SNP | George Newlands Reid | 25,998 | 50.8 | ||
Labour Co-op | Richard Giles Douglas | 18,657 | 36.4 | ||
Conservative | TNA Begg | 5,269 | 10.3 | ||
Liberal | D Shields | 1,268 | 2.5 | ||
Majority | 7,341 | 14.3 | |||
Turnout | 2.5 | ||||
SNP hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Martin John O'Neill | 22,780 | 41.9 | ||
SNP | George Newlands Reid | 21,796 | 40.1 | ||
Conservative | T.N.A. Begg | 9,778 | 18.0 | ||
Majority | 984 | 1.8 | |||
Turnout | 81.7 | ||||
Labour gain from SNP | Swing | ||||
References
- ↑ "'Stirlingshire East and Clackmannan', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Boundary Commission for Scotland
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
- ↑ The Times, 17 November 1922
- ↑ The Times, 8 December 1923
- ↑ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
- ↑ The Times, 1 June 1929
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1944
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ http://tools.assembla.com/svn/grodt/uk/thc/files/all_1970.txt
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