Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Clackmannan, Falkirk East and Falkirk West^[1]

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.

Boundaries

Following the Representation of the People Act 1948, the seat of Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire was described in 1950 as being composed of:

The Burgh of Clackmannan
Three wards of Stirlingshire, named at the time as Eastern No. 1, Eastern No. 2, and Eastern No. 3^[2]

This would continue until the seat's abolition in 1983.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member ^[3]	Party
	1918	Ralph Glyn	Unionist
	1922	Lauchlin MacNeill Weir	Labour
	1931	James Wellwood Johnston	Unionist
	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

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Clackmannan & Eastern Stirlingshire ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Maj. Ralph George Campbell Glyn	6,771
	Co-operative Party	Henry John May	5,753
	Liberal	Maj. William Allan Chapple	5,040
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist win

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lauchlin MacNeill Weir	10,312	42.0
	Liberal	Craigie Mason Aitchison	7,379	30.0
	Unionist	Ralph George Campbell Glyn	6,888	28.0
Majority			2,933	12.0
Turnout			24,579
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

General Election 1923: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lauchlin MacNeill Weir	10,492
	Liberal	Craigie Mason Aitchison	10,043
Majority			449
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1924: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire ^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lauchlin MacNeill Weir	13,032	52.6
	Liberal	Edwin James Donaldson	11,752	47.4
Majority			1,280	5.2
Turnout			24,784
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lauchlin MacNeill Weir	17,667	53.2	+0.6
	Unionist	Harold Paton Mitchell	8,778	26.4	n/a
	Liberal	Edwin James Donaldson	6,760	20.4	-27.0
Majority			8,889	26.8	+21.6
Turnout			33,205
	Labour hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	James Wellwood Johnston	20,425	59.9
	Labour	Lauchlin MacNeill Weir	13,669	40.1
Majority			6,756	19.8
Turnout			34,094	77.7
	Unionist gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lauchlin MacNeill Weir	14,881	42.3
	Unionist	James Wellwood Johnston	13,738	39.0
	Liberal	George Gordon Honeyman	5,062	14.4
	Ind. Labour Party	David W Gibson	1,513	4.3
Majority			1,143	3.2
Turnout			35,194	76.2
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire by-election, 1939^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Woodburn	15,645	93.7
	Pacifist	Andrew Stewart	1,060	6.4
Majority
Turnout				35.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Woodburn	24,622	62.9
	Unionist	John Edward Gilmour	14,522	37.1
Majority			10,100	25.8
Turnout				71.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Stirlingshire East and Clackmannan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Woodburn	22,980	56.5
	Unionist	Spencer Douglas Loch	13,630	33.5
	Liberal	Charles Hampton Johnston	4,078	10.0
Majority			9,350	23.0
Turnout				83.4

General Election 1951
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Woodburn	25,231	58.7
	Unionist	Spencer Douglas Loch	17,727	41.3
Majority			7,504	17.5
Turnout				85.7

General Election 1955
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Woodburn	23,588	58.7
	Unionist	Raymond Craigie Aitchison	7,009	41.3
Majority			9,350	17.4
Turnout				79.8

General Election 1959
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Woodburn	25,004	59.3
	Unionist	Raymond Craigie Aitchison	17,132	40.7
Majority			7,872	18.9
Turnout				80.7

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Woodburn	23,927	57.2
	Unionist	Angus MacDonald	12,815	30.6
	SNP	Charles Douglas Drysdale	5,106	12.2
Majority			11,112	26.5
Turnout				79.8

General Election 1966
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Woodburn	22,557	55.3
	Conservative	Angus MacDonald	10,037	24.5
	SNP	Charles Douglas Drysdale	8,225	20.1
Majority			12,520	30.7
Turnout				77.5

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Richard Giles Douglas	23,729	50.7
	Conservative	James Fairlie	13,178	28.2
	SNP	Ian Macdonald	7,243	15.5
	Liberal	Robert E. Bell	2,640	5.6
Majority			10,551	22.5
Turnout			46,790	75.6

General Election February 1974: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	George Newlands Reid	22,289	43.5
	Labour Co-op	Richard Giles Douglas	18,679	36.4
	Conservative	A.H. Lester	9,994	19.5
	Communist	George Bolton	322	0.6
Majority			3,610	7.0
Turnout				82.4
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing

General Election October 1974: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	George Newlands Reid	25,998	50.8
	Labour Co-op	Richard Giles Douglas	18,657	36.4
	Conservative	TNA Begg	5,269	10.3
	Liberal	D Shields	1,268	2.5
Majority			7,341	14.3
Turnout				2.5
	SNP hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Martin John O'Neill	22,780	41.9
	SNP	George Newlands Reid	21,796	40.1
	Conservative	T.N.A. Begg	9,778	18.0
Majority			984	1.8
Turnout				81.7
	Labour gain from SNP		Swing

References

↑ "'Stirlingshire East and Clackmannan', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
↑ 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
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
↑ http://tools.assembla.com/svn/grodt/uk/thc/files/all_1970.txt

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