- North West Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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Coordinates: 55°49′41″N 4°03′36″W / 55.828°N 4.060°W
North West Lanarkshire Former County constituency for the House of Commons Subdivisions of Scotland county of Lanark 1885–1918 Number of members One North West Lanarkshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1885 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
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Boundaries
The name relates the constituency to the county of Lanark. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the North-West division was to consist of "so much of the Parish of Barony as lies beyond the present boundary of the municipal burgh of Glasgow and to the east of the main line of railway before mentioned (main line of railway between Glasgow and Edinburgh of the North British Railway Company (being the old Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway)), and the parishes of Cadder and Old Monkland". [1]
Members of Parliament
Election Member[2] Party 1885 John Baird Conservative 1886 Robert Cunninghame-Graham Liberal 1892 Graeme Alexander Lockhart Whitelaw Conservative 1895 John Goundry Holburn Liberal 1899 by-election Charles Mackinnon Douglas Liberal 1906 William Lowson Mitchell-Thompson, later Baron Selsdon Unionist Jan. 1910 William Mather Rutherford Pringle Liberal 1918 constituency abolished Election results
General Election Dec 1910: North West Lanarkshire [3] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal William Mather Rutherford Pringle 9,315 Conservative Arthur Stanley Pringle 8,486 General Election Jan 1910: North West Lanarkshire [4] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal William Mather Rutherford Pringle 8,422 Conservative William Mitchell-Thomson 7,528 Labour Robert Small 1,718 General Election 1906: North West Lanarkshire [5] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative William Mitchell-Thomson 5,588 40.5 Liberal Charles Mackinnon Douglas 4,913 35.6 Scottish Workers Joseph Sullivan 3,291 23.9 General Election 1900: North West Lanarkshire [6] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Charles Mackinnon Douglas DSc 5,505 Liberal Unionist Lewis Edmunds 5,214 Registered electors 13,568 By-election 21 Feb 1899: North West Lanarkshire [7] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Charles Mackinnon Douglas DSc 5,723 Conservative Graeme Alexander Whitelaw 5,364 General Election 1895: North West Lanarkshire [8] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal John Goundry Holburn 5,244 Conservative Graeme Alexander Whitelaw 5,147 General Election 1892: North West Lanarkshire [9] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Graeme Alexander Whitelaw 4,770 Liberal Col James C.R. Reade 4,689 Registered electors 11,408 General Election 1886: North West Lanarkshire [10] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Robert Cunninghame-Graham 4,030 Conservative John Baird 3,698 General Election 1885: North West Lanarkshire [11] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative John Baird 4,545 Liberal Robert Cunninghame-Graham 3,442 Notes
- ^ Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, Seventh Schedule, Part II
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1916
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1916
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
Categories:- Lanarkshire
- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1885
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1918
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