- Mid Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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Coordinates: 55°48′36″N 4°12′36″W / 55.810°N 4.210°W
Mid Lanarkshire Former County constituency for the House of Commons Subdivisions of Scotland county of Lanark 1885–1918 Number of members One Mid 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 Mid division was to consist of "the parishes of Rutherglen, Carmunnock, so much of the parish of Cathcart as adjoins the two last-mentioned parishes, Cambuslang, Blantyre, so much of the parish of Hamilton as lies south and west of the River Clyde, Dalserf and Cambusnethan".[1]
Members of Parliament
Election Member[2] Party 1885 Stephen Mason Liberal 1888 by-election John Wynford Philipps, later Viscount St Davids Liberal 1894 by-election James Caldwell Liberal Jan. 1910 John Howard Whitehouse Liberal 1918 constituency abolished Election results
General Election Dec 1910: Mid Lanarkshire [3] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal John Howard Whitehouse 6,033 Conservative Henry Shanks Keith 5,702 Labour Robert Smillie 3,847 General Election Jan 1910: Mid Lanarkshire [4] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal John Howard Whitehouse 5,792 Conservative John Johnson Pickering 5,401 Labour Robert Smillie 3,864 General Election 1906: Mid Lanarkshire [5] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal James Caldwell 7,246 Conservative Capt Duncan F. Campbell 4,470 Independent A.S. Gibson 758 General Election 1900: Mid Lanarkshire [6] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal James Caldwell 5,267 Conservative Charles Kincaid MacKenzie 5,075 General Election 1895: Mid Lanarkshire [7] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal James Caldwell 4,447 Liberal Unionist Charles Kincaid MacKenzie 4,376 General Election 1892: Mid Lanarkshire [8] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal John Philipps 4,611 Conservative Col Robert E.S. Harington-Stuart 3,489 27 April 1888 by-election: Mid Lanarkshire [9] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal John Philipps 3,847 52.1 -4.5 Conservative William Bousfield 2,917 39.5 -4.0 Independent Labour Keir Hardie 617 8.4 N/A Majority 930 12.6 -0.4 Turnout 7,381 80.7 +5.9 Liberal hold Swing Registered electors 9,143 - Resignation of Mason, April 1888
General Election 1886: Mid Lanarkshire [10] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Stephen Mason 3,779 56.5 Liberal Unionist James Widrington Shand-Harvey 2,909 43.5 Majority 870 13.0 Turnout 6,688 74.8 Liberal hold Swing Registered electors 8,939 General Election 1885: Mid Lanarkshire [11] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Stephen Mason 2,875 Conservative William Robert Bousfield 2,579 Liberal John Clark Forrest 1,913 References
- ^ 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 the Judicial Bench, 1916
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and the 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
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
- ^ Craig
- ^ (1) Craig. (2) Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
See also
Categories:- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- Lanarkshire
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1885
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1918
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