Coatbridge (UK Parliament constituency)

Coatbridge
Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Lanarkshire
1918–1950
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Coatbridge & Airdrie
Created from	Lanarkshire

Coatbridge was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) from 1918 to 1950, elected by the first past the post voting system.

It was formed by the division of Lanarkshire. The name was changed in 1950 to Coatbridge and Airdrie. A later constituency, Coatbridge and Chryston, existed between 1997 and 2005, until it was redrawn as Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill.

Boundaries

From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The burghs of Coatbridge and Airdrie."

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party
	1918	Arthur Louis Hamilton Buchanan	Coalition Conservative
	1922	James C. Welsh	Labour
	1931	William Paterson Templeton	Conservative
	1935	James Barr	Labour
	1945	Jean Mann	Labour
1950		constituency abolished: see Coatbridge & Airdrie

Election results

General Election 1918: Coatbridge [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Conservative	Lt Col A L H Buchanan	13,188
	Labour	Owen Coyle	7,254

General Election 1922: Coatbridge [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James C. Welsh	12,038	49.0
	Unionist	Arthur Louis Hamilton Buchanan	9,724	39.6
	Liberal	Daniel Patterson Blades	2,802	11.4
Majority			2,314	9.4
Turnout			24,564
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

General Election 1923: Coatbridge [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James C. Welsh	12,292
	Unionist	J.B Young	9,865

General Election 1924: Coatbridge [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James C. Welsh	12,782
	Conservative	Col Thomas Moore	12,725

General Election 1929: Coatbridge [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James C. Welsh	16,879	55.0
	Unionist	Lord Dunglass	9,210	30.0
	Liberal	Robert Irvine	4,610	15.0
Majority			7,669	25.0
Turnout			30,699
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1931: Coatbridge[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Paterson Templeton	16,223
	Labour	James C. Welsh	14,722
	New Party	W.W. Gilmour	674

General Election 1935: Coatbridge [8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rev James Barr	17,535
	Conservative	T.D.K. Murray	13,121

General Election 1945: Coatbridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J Mann	18,619	61.12
	Conservative	R Russell	11,842	38.88

References

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 5)
2. Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
3. The Times, 17 November 1922
4. The Times, 8 December 1923
5. Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
6. The Times, 1 June 1929
7. Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
8. Whitaker's Almanack, 1939