Glasgow Tradeston (UK Parliament constituency)
Glasgow Tradeston | |
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Former constituency Unknown parliament uk ![]() ![]() | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | City and royal burgh of Glasgow County of city of Glasgow |
1885 | –1955|
Created from | Glasgow |
Replaced by | Glasgow Govan |
Glasgow Tradeston was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1955. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.
Boundaries
[edit]The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of the fifteenth and sixteenth Municipal Wards.[1]
In 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the centre of Glasgow Bridge at the centre line of the River Clyde, thence southward along the centre line of Glasgow Bridge, Bridge Street and Eglinton Street to the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway at Eglinton Street Station, thence westward along the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway (Paisley Canal Line) to the centre line of Shields Road, thence northwards along the centre line of Shields Road to the centre line of the Caledonian Railway, thence westward along the centre line of the said Caledonian Railway and the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway to a point in line with the centre line of Church Road, thence northward along the centre line of Church Road, Whitefield Road, and the portion of Govan Road to the west of Princes Dock and continuation thereof to the centre line of the River Clyde, thence eastward along the centre line of the River Clyde to the point of commencement."
1918–1949: The County of the City of Glasgow wards of Kingston and Kinning Park[2]
1950–1955: The County of the City of Glasgow wards of Kinning Park and Kingston, and part of Govan
Members of Parliament
[edit]Election | Member [3] | Party | |
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1885 | Archibald Cameron Corbett, later Baron Rowallan | Liberal | |
1886 | Liberal Unionist | ||
January 1910 | Independent Liberal | ||
December 1910 | Liberal | ||
1911 | James Dundas White | Liberal | |
1918 | Vivian Leonard Henderson | Unionist | |
1922 | Thomas Henderson | Labour Co-operative | |
1931 | William Hannah McLean | Unionist | |
1935 | Thomas Henderson | Labour Co-operative | |
1945 | John Rankin | Labour Co-operative | |
1955 | constituency abolished |
Elections
[edit]Elections in the 1880s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Archibald Corbett | 4,354 | 56.69 | ||
Conservative | James Somervell | 3,240 | 42.19 | ||
Scottish Land Restoration | Wallace McGuffin Greaves | 86 | 1.12 | ||
Majority | 1,114 | 14.50 | |||
Turnout | 7,680 | 83.28 | |||
Registered electors | 9,222 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | Archibald Corbett | 3,878 | 54.99 | New | |
Liberal | John Meiklejohn | 3,174 | 45.01 | −11.68 | |
Majority | 704 | 9.98 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,052 | 76.47 | −6.81 | ||
Registered electors | 9,222 | ||||
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1890s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | Archibald Corbett | 3,366 | 45.82 | −9.17 | |
Liberal | James Caldwell | 3,197 | 43.52 | −1.49 | |
Scottish Labour | Bennet Burley | 783 | 10.66 | New | |
Majority | 169 | 2.30 | −7.68 | ||
Turnout | 7,346 | 76.00 | −0.47 | ||
Registered electors | 9,666 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | −9.17 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | Archibald Corbett | 3,373 | 53.46 | +7.64 | |
Liberal | George Green | 2,568 | 40.70 | −2.82 | |
Ind. Labour Party | Frank Smith | 368 | 5.83 | −4.83 | |
Majority | 805 | 12.76 | +10.46 | ||
Turnout | 6,309 | 62.02 | −13.98 | ||
Registered electors | 10,173 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | +5.23 |
Elections in the 1900s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | Archibald Corbett | 4,389 | 61.17 | +7.71 | |
Lib-Lab | William Maxwell | 2,785 | 38.82 | −1.88 | |
Majority | 1,604 | 22.36 | +9.60 | ||
Turnout | 7,174 | 74.18 | +12.16 | ||
Registered electors | 9,671 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | +4.80 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | Archibald Corbett | 4,416 | 50.62 | −10.55 | |
Liberal | David Marshall Mason | 4,063 | 46.57 | +7.75 | |
Ind. Conservative |
| 245 | 2.81 | New | |
Majority | 353 | 4.05 | −18.31 | ||
Turnout | 8,724 | 83.49 | +9.31 | ||
Registered electors | 10,449 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | −9.15 |
- Stood as a 'Fiscal Reform' candidate
Elections in the 1910s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent Liberal | Archibald Corbett | 2,966 | 35.26 | New | |
Liberal Unionist | Archibald Pollock Main | 2,773 | 32.96 | −17.66 | |
Liberal | David Marshall Mason | 2,673 | 31.78 | −14.79 | |
Majority | 193 | 2.29 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,412 | 87.04 | +3.55 | ||
Registered electors | 9,664 | ||||
Independent Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Archibald Corbett | 4,811 | 60.53 | +28.75 | |
Liberal Unionist | Archibald Pollock Main | 3,137 | 39.47 | +6.51 | |
Majority | 1,674 | 21.06 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,948 | 82.71 | −4.33 | ||
Registered electors | 9,609 | ||||
Liberal gain from Independent Liberal | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | J. D. White | 3,869 | 58.16 | −2.37 | |
Liberal Unionist | John Henry Watts | 2,783 | 41.84 | +2.37 | |
Majority | 1,086 | 16.32 | −4.74 | ||
Turnout | 6,652 | 69.23 | −13.48 | ||
Registered electors | 9,609 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −2.37 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Unionist | Vivian Henderson | 12,250 | 63.2 | +23.7 |
British Socialist Party | James MacDougall | 3,751 | 19.4 | New | |
Liberal | J. D. White | 3,369 | 17.4 | −43.1 | |
Majority | 8,499 | 43.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 19,370 | 53.9 | −28.8 | ||
Registered electors | 35,960 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +33.4 | |||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Elections in the 1920s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Thomas Henderson | 14,190 | 55.7 | New | |
Unionist | Vivian Henderson | 9,977 | 39.2 | −24.0 | |
Liberal | Charles de Bois Murray | 1,310 | 5.1 | −12.3 | |
Majority | 4,213 | 16.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 25,477 | 75.4 | +21.5 | ||
Registered electors | 33,792 | ||||
Labour Co-op gain from Unionist | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Thomas Henderson | 12,787 | 60.1 | +4.4 | |
Liberal | Douglas Macdonald | 8,479 | 39.9 | +34.8 | |
Majority | 4,308 | 20.2 | +3.7 | ||
Turnout | 21,266 | 63.1 | −12.3 | ||
Registered electors | 33,713 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | −15.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Thomas Henderson | 14,067 | 56.0 | −4.1 | |
Liberal | Douglas Macdonald | 11,074 | 44.0 | +4.1 | |
Majority | 2,993 | 12.0 | −8.2 | ||
Turnout | 25,141 | 73.1 | +10.0 | ||
Registered electors | 34,373 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | −4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Thomas Henderson | 17,864 | 57.9 | +1.9 | |
Unionist | Ingram Spencer | 12,992 | 42.1 | New | |
Majority | 4,872 | 15.8 | +3.8 | ||
Turnout | 30,456 | 75.7 | +2.6 | ||
Registered electors | 40,743 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1930s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | William McLean | 15,067 | 52.60 | +10.50 | |
Labour Co-op | Thomas Henderson | 13,579 | 47.40 | −10.50 | |
Majority | 1,488 | 5.20 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 28,646 | 73.40 | −2.30 | ||
Registered electors | 39,026 | ||||
Unionist gain from Labour Co-op | Swing | +11.26 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Thomas Henderson | 12,253 | 47.07 | −0.33 | |
Unionist | William McLean | 10,354 | 39.78 | −12.82 | |
Ind. Labour Party | James Carmichael | 3,423 | 13.15 | New | |
Majority | 1,899 | 7.29 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 26,030 | 69.26 | −3.14 | ||
Registered electors | 37,582 | ||||
Labour Co-op gain from Unionist | Swing | −0.33 |
General Election 1939–40
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Labour: Thomas Henderson[21]
- Unionist:
Elections in the 1940s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | John Rankin | 13,153 | 59.72 | +12.65 | |
Unionist | H Black | 8,871 | 40.28 | +0.50 | |
Majority | 4,282 | 19.44 | +12.15 | ||
Turnout | 22,023 | 62.19 | −7.07 | ||
Registered electors | 35,412 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +12.65 |
Elections in the 1950s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | John Rankin | 26,598 | 62.88 | +3.16 | |
Unionist | Alexander Hart | 15,074 | 37.12 | −3.16 | |
Majority | 10,894 | 25.76 | +6.32 | ||
Turnout | 41,672 | 78.75 | +16.56 | ||
Registered electors | 53,719 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +3.16 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | John Rankin | 26,966 | 63.10 | +0.22 | |
Unionist | Alexander Hart | 15,771 | 36.90 | −0.22 | |
Majority | 11,195 | 26.20 | +0.45 | ||
Turnout | 42,737 | 80.03 | +1.28 | ||
Registered electors | 53,404 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | +0.22 |
References
[edit]- ^ Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule
- ^ Craig, F.W.S. (1972). Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972. Chichester: Political Reference Publications. ISBN 0-900178-09-4.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
- ^ The Constitutional Year Book. Conservative Central Office. 1904.
- ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
- ^ a b c d e f g h British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
- ^ a b c Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
- ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ Rubinstein, William D; Jolles, Michael A; Rubinstein, Hilary L, eds. (2011). The Palgrave dictionary of Anglo-Jewish history (First ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 817. ISBN 978-1-4039-3910-4.
- ^ a b c Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
- ^ a b British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ^ The Times, 16 November 1922
- ^ The Times, 8 December 1923
- ^ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
- ^ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1931". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
- ^ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1935". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
- ^ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1945". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1950.
- ^ The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1951.