Glasgow Govan (UK Parliament constituency)
Glasgow Govan | |
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Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | City of Glasgow |
Major settlements | Govan |
1885–2005 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by |
Glasgow Central Glasgow South Glasgow South West |
Glasgow Govan was a parliamentary constituency in the Govan district of Glasgow. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 2005, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) elected by the first-past-the-post system.
It was a Conservative-Liberal marginal seat for the first three decades of its existence, before being won by the Labour Party in 1918. It remained a Labour seat for the next 55 years, except for a five-year Conservative interlude from 1950 to 1955, before being seized by the SNP at a 1973 by-election, only to be regained by Labour the following year. The SNP regained the seat at a 1988 by-election, only to lose it again to Labour in 1992. It remained a Labour seat until its abolition 13 years later.
The area which the constituency represented is now covered by Glasgow Central, Glasgow South and Glasgow South West.
Boundaries
1885-1918: "That part of the parish of Govan which lies south of the Clyde beyond the boundary of the Municipal Burgh of Glasgow".[1]
1918-1945: "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary at the centre of the River Clyde in line with the continuation of the centre line of Balmoral Street, thence eastward along the centre line of the River Clyde to a point in line with the continuation of the centre line of the portion of Govan Road to the west of Princes Dock, thence southward to and along the centre line of the said portion of Govan Road, Whitefield Road, Church Road and continuation thereof to the centre, of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway, thence westward along the centre line of the said Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway to the municipal boundary, thence north-westward, northward, and eastward along the municipal boundary to the point of commencement."
1945-1974: The Glasgow wards of Govan, Kinning Park, part of Fairfield, and part of Kingston.
1974-1983: The Glasgow wards of Fairfield, Govan, Kingston, and Kinning Park.
1983-1997: The City of Glasgow District electoral divisions of Drumoyne/Govan, Mosspark/Bellahouston, and Penilee/Cardonald.
1997-2005: The City of Glasgow District electoral divisions of Govan/Drumoyne, Kingston/Pollokshields, and Langside/Shawlands.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1885 | Sir William Pearce | Conservative | |
1889 | John Wilson | Liberal | |
1900 | Robert Hunter Craig | Liberal | |
1906 | Robert Duncan | Unionist | |
1910 | William Hunter | Liberal | |
1911 | Daniel Turner Holmes | Liberal | |
1918 | Neil Maclean | Labour and Independent Labour Party | |
1931[2] | Labour | ||
1950 | Jack Browne | Unionist | |
1955 | John Rankin | Labour Co-operative | |
1973 by-election | Margo MacDonald | SNP | |
Feb 1974 | Harry Selby | Labour | |
1979 | Andy McMahon | Labour | |
1983 | Bruce Millan | Labour | |
1988 by-election | Jim Sillars | SNP | |
1992 | Ian Davidson | Labour Co-operative | |
1997 | Mohammad Sarwar | Labour | |
1997 | Independent[3] | ||
1999 | Labour | ||
2005 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Pearce | 3,677 | |||
Liberal | Bennet Graham Burley | 3,522 | |||
Liberal | David George Hoey | 11 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Pearce | 3,574 | 52.7 | ||
Liberal | T. A. Dickson | 3,212 | 47.3 | ||
Majority | 362 | 5.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Wilson | 4,420 | 56.9 | ||
Liberal Unionist | Sir John Pender | 3,349 | 43.1 | ||
Majority | 1,071 | 13.8 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | N/A | |||
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Wilson | 44,829 | |||
Conservative | Nathaniel Spens | 3,829 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Wilson | 4,290 | |||
Liberal Unionist | George Ferguson | 4,029 | |||
Ind. Labour Party | Alexander Haddow | 430 | |||
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Robert Hunter Craig | 5,744 | 50.7 | +1.7 | |
Liberal Unionist | Robert Duncan | 5,580 | 49.3 | +3.2 | |
Majority | 1.4 | -1.5 | |||
Turnout | 76.5 | -0.1 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | -0.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Duncan | 5,224 | 35.9 | ||
Liberal | H. S. Murray | 5,096 | 35.1 | ||
Ind. Labour Party | John Hill | 4,212 | 29.0 | n/a | |
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Hunter | 6,556 | 43.0 | ||
Conservative | Robert Duncan | 5,127 | 33.7 | ||
Labour | James Thomas Brownlie | 3,545 | 23.3 | ||
Majority | 1,429 | 9.3 | |||
Turnout | 84.6 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
At a by-election on 28 April 1910, following his appointment as Solicitor General for Scotland, William Hunter was returned unopposed.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Hunter | 8,409 | 56.9 | ||
Conservative | George Balfour | 6,369 | 43.1 | ||
Majority | 2,040 | 13.8 | |||
Turnout | 79.9 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Daniel Turner Holmes | 7,508 | 53.5 | -3.4 | |
Conservative | George Balfour | 6,522 | 46.5 | +3.4 | |
Majority | 7.0 | -6.8 | |||
Turnout | 76.3 | -3.6 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | -3.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Neil Maclean | 9,577 | 47.8 | n/a | |
Unionist | Alexander McClure | 8,762 | 43.8 | ||
Liberal | Daniel Turner Holmes | 1,678 | 8.4 | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Neil Maclean | 15,441 | 62.3 | +14.5 | |
National Liberal | Helen Miller Fraser | 9,336 | 37.7 | +29.3 | |
Majority | 6,105 | 24.6 | +20.6 | ||
Turnout | 24,777 | 78.3 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -7.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Neil Maclean | 13,987 | |||
Liberal | Henry Anderson Watt | 7,095 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Neil Maclean | 15,132 | |||
Unionist | H. Stanley | 8,815 | |||
Majority | 6,317 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent Labour | 17,384 | 57.7 | |||
Unionist | Marquess of Clydesdale | 12,738 | 42.3 | ||
Majority | 4,646 | 15.4 | |||
Turnout | 30,122 | ||||
Independent Labour hold | Swing | ||||
- candidature not endorsed by Labour Party HQ
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 15,047 | 51.0 | |||
Unionist | Alexander McClure | 14,442 | 49.0 | ||
Majority | 605 | 2.0 | |||
Turnout | 75.4 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
- Maclean had been expelled by the ILP but was endorsed by Labour Party HQ.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Neil Maclean | 15,791 | 51.0 | ||
Unionist | Alexander McClure | 10,211 | 33.0 | ||
Ind. Labour Party | Thomas Johnston Taylor | 4,959 | 16.0 | ||
Majority | 5,580 | 18.0 | |||
Turnout | 74.7 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Election in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Neil Maclean | 18,668 | 66.1 | ||
Unionist | Jack Nixon Browne | 9,586 | 33.9 | ||
Majority | 9,082 | 32.14 | |||
Turnout | 64.08 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Jack Nixon Browne | 19,267 | 46.6 | ||
Labour | John Davis | 18,894 | 45.7 | ||
Liberal | Thomas Ronald Leslie Fraser | 1,628 | 3.9 | ||
Communist | William Lauchlan | 1,547 | 3.8 | ||
Majority | 373 | 0.90 | |||
Turnout | 84.03 | ||||
Unionist gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Jack Nixon Browne | 20,936 | 50.3 | ||
Labour | John Davis | 20,695 | 49.7 | ||
Majority | 241 | 0.58 | |||
Turnout | 84.92 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Rankin | 24,818 | 62.0 | ||
Unionist | Alexander G Hutton | 15,216 | 38.0 | ||
Majority | 9,602 | 23.98 | |||
Turnout | 71.82 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | ||||
- the boundaries of the seat were heavily redrawn and much of the 1950-55 version of Govan ended up in the new Craigton seat
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Rankin | 23,139 | 60.4 | ||
Unionist | Alexander G Hutton | 13,319 | 34.7 | ||
Communist | Gordon McLennan | 1,869 | 4.9 | ||
Majority | 9,820 | 25.62 | |||
Turnout | 75.03 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Rankin | 20,326 | 64.99 | ||
Unionist | Peter Breuer | 9,571 | 30.60 | ||
Communist | Gordon McLennan | 1,378 | 4.41 | ||
Majority | 10,755 | 34.39 | |||
Turnout | 31,275 | 70.25 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Rankin | 18,533 | 67.8 | ||
Conservative | Peter Breuer | 7,677 | 28.1 | ||
Communist | Gordon McLennan | 1,103 | 4.0 | ||
Majority | 10,856 | 39.75 | |||
Turnout | 67.47 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Rankin | 13,443 | 60.1 | ||
Conservative | Gerald F. Belton | 6,301 | 28.2 | ||
SNP | James Michael Trevlyn Grieve | 2,294 | 10.3 | ||
Communist | Thomas Biggam | 326 | 1.5 | ||
Majority | 7,142 | 31.9 | |||
Turnout | 22,364 | 63.2 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SNP | Margo MacDonald | 6,360 | 41.5 | +31.2 | |
Labour | Harry Selby | 5,789 | 38.2 | -21.9 | |
Conservative | John Mair | 1,780 | 11.7 | -16.5 | |
Liberal | Peter McMillan | 1,239 | 8.2 | ||
Majority | 571 | 3.5 | |||
Turnout | 15,168 | ||||
SNP gain from Labour | Swing | 26.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harry Selby | 10,326 | 43.17 | ||
SNP | Margo MacDonald | 9,783 | 40.90 | ||
Conservative | J Mair | 3,049 | 12.75 | ||
Liberal | P McMillan | 763 | 3.19 | ||
Majority | 543 | 2.27 | |||
Turnout | 23,920 | 74.92 | |||
Labour gain from SNP | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Harry Selby | 11,392 | 49.50 | ||
SNP | Margo MacDonald | 9,440 | 41.02 | ||
Conservative | M Todd | 1,623 | 7.05 | ||
Liberal | E Mason | 444 | 1.93 | ||
National Front | MA Brooks | 86 | 0.37 | ||
More Prosperous Britain | T Clyde | 27 | 0.12 | ||
Majority | 1,952 | 8.48 | |||
Turnout | 23,011 | 71.70 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Andy McMahon | 11,676 | 67.9 | ||
Conservative | John Harrison Walker | 3,188 | 18.5 | ||
SNP | Thomas Wilson | 2,340 | 13.6 | ||
Majority | 8,488 | 49.3 | |||
Turnout | 75.7 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bruce Millan | 20,370 | 55.0 | -12.9 | |
Social Democratic | I. Mcdonald | 7,313 | 19.7 | ||
Conservative | A. McKenzie | 7,180 | 19.4 | +0.9 | |
SNP | P.M. Kindlen | 2,207 | 5.9 | -7.7 | |
Majority | 13,057 | 35.3 | |||
Turnout | 37, 070 | 71.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bruce Millan | 24,071 | 64.8 | +9.8 | |
Social Democratic | Alasdair Ferguson | 4,562 | 12.3 | -7.4 | |
Conservative | Mrs Janet Ruth Girsman | 4,411 | 11.9 | -7.5 | |
SNP | Felix McCabe | 3,851 | 10.4 | +4.5 | |
Communist | Douglas Chalmers | 237 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 19,509 | 52.5 | |||
Turnout | 37,132 | 73.4 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +8.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SNP | Jim Sillars | 14,677 | 48.8 | +38.4 | |
Labour | Bob Gillespie | 11,123 | 36.9 | -27.8 | |
Conservative | Graeme Hamilton | 2,207 | 7.3 | -4.6 | |
Social and Liberal Democrats | Bernard Ponsonby | 1,246 | 4.1 | -8.2 | |
Green | George Campbell | 345 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Communist | Douglas Chalmers | 281 | 0.9 | +0.3 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Lord Sutch | 174 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Independent | Fraser Clark | 51 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,554 | 11.8 | |||
Turnout | 30,104 | 60.2 | |||
SNP gain from Labour | Swing | +33.1 | |||
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ian Davidson | 17,051 | 49.0 | -15.8 | |
SNP | Jim Sillars | 12,926 | 37.1 | +26.7 | |
Conservative | James Alan Donnelly | 3,458 | 9.9 | -2.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Bob Stewart | 1,227 | 3.5 | -8.8 | |
Scottish Green | David Spaven | 181 | 0.5 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 4,125 | 11.8 | -40.7 | ||
Turnout | 34,843 | 75.9 | N/A | ||
Labour gain from SNP | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mohammad Sarwar | 14,216 | 44.1 | -4.9 | |
SNP | Nicola Sturgeon | 11,302 | 35.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | William Thomas | 2,839 | 8.8 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Bob Stewart | 1,918 | 5.9 | N/A | |
Scottish Socialist | Alan McCombes | 755 | 2.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Peter Paton | 325 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Independent | Islam Badar | 319 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Independent | Zahid Jamil Abbasi | 221 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Referendum | Kenneth MacDonald | 201 | 0.6 | N/A | |
BNP | James White | 149 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,914 | 9.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 32,245 | 64.5 | N/A | ||
Labour hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mohammad Sarwar | 12,464 | 49.3 | +5.2 | |
SNP | Karen Neary | 6,064 | 24.0 | -11.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Bob Stewart | 2,815 | 11.1 | +5.2 | |
Conservative | Mark Menzies | 2,167 | 8.6 | -0.2 | |
Scottish Socialist | Wullie McGartland | 1,531 | 6.1 | N/A | |
Communist | John Foster | 174 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Independent | Badar Mirza | 69 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,400 | 25.3 | |||
Turnout | 25,284 | 46.8 | -17.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 8.2 | |||
Notes and references
- ↑ Redistribution of Seats Act 1885
- ↑ Neil Maclean was elected at the 1918 general election as a member of both the Independent Labour Party and the Labour Party. He was expelled from the ILP for deviancy from the party line in 1931.
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/news/06/0625/sarwar.shtml
- 1 2 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 by FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 by FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 by FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 by FWS Craig
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
- ↑ The Times, 8 December 1923
- ↑ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
- ↑ The Times House of Commons, 1929
- ↑ The Times House of Commons, 1931
- ↑ The Times House of Commons, 1935
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1950
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1951
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1955
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1959
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1964
- ↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1964". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
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- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1966
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74a/i09.htm
- ↑ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge74b/i09.htm