- Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire Former County constituency for the House of Commons 1918–1983 Number of members One Replaced by Clackmannan 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.
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Boundaries
Following the Representation of the People Act 1948, the seat of Clackmannan and East Sterlingshire was described as being created from;
- The Burgh of Clackmannan
- Three wards of Stirlingshire, named at the time as Eastern No. 1, Eastern No. 2, and Eastern No. 3[1]
This would continue until the seat's abolition. The constituency of Clackmannan was described on its creation for the 1983 election as being formed from;
- All the district of Clackmannan
- Division 29 of the district of Falkirk
- Division 13 of the district of Stirling
Members of Parliament
Election Member [2] Party 1918 Ralph Glyn Coalition Conservative 1922 Lauchlin MacNeill Weir Labour 1931 James Wellwood Johnston Conservative 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 Politics and history of the constituency
Results
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1918: Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire [3] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Coalition Conservative Maj Ralph Glyn 6,771 Independent H.J. May 5,753 Liberal Maj William Chapple 5,040 Elections in the 1920s
General Election 1922: Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire [4] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Lauchlin MacNeill Weir 10,312 Liberal Craigie Mason Aitchison 7,379 Conservative Maj Ralph Glyn 6,888 General Election 1923: Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire [5] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Lauchlin MacNeill Weir 10,492 Liberal Craigie Mason Aitchison 10,043 General Election 1924: Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire [6] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Lauchlin MacNeill Weir 13,032 Liberal E.J. Donaldson 11,752 General Election 1929: Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire [7] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Lauchlin MacNeill Weir 17,667 Unionist H. Mitchell 8,778 Liberal Major E.J. Donaldson 6,760 Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1931: Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire[8] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative James Wellwood Johnston 20,425 Labour Lauchlin MacNeill Weir 13,669 General Election 1935: Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire [9] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Lauchlin MacNeill Weir 14,881 Conservative James Wellwood Johnston 13,738 Liberal G.G. Honeyman 5,062 Ind. Labour Party David Gibson 1,513 By-election 1939: Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire [10] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Arthur Woodburn 15,645 Pacifist Andrew Stewart 1,060 Elections in the 1940s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
References
- ^ [1] 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
Categories:- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1918
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983
- United Kingdom historical constituency stubs
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