Glasgow Camlachie (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Camlachie
Former Burgh constituency
for the House of Commons


Glasgow Camlachie show within Glasgow and Lanarkshire and Glasgow and Lanarkshire shown within Scotland
Subdivisions of Scotland City of Glasgow
1885–1955
Number of members One
Created from Glasgow

Glasgow Camlachie 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

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of the second Municipal Ward, and so much of the third Municipal Ward as lies south of a line drawn along the centre of Duke Street.[1]

In 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary on the south-east side of Cumbernauld Road where that road is intersected by the east side of the Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Lines), thence southward along the municipal boundary to a point about 299 yards north-westward from the centre of Carntyne Road, where the municipal boundary intersects that road, thence north-westward to a point on the centre line of the said railway 380 yards south of the centre line of Cumbernauld Road, thence southwestward and southward along the centre line of the said railway to the centre line of London Road, thence westward along the centre line of London Road and Canning Street to the centre line of Abercromby Street, thence north-eastward along the centre line of Abercromby Street to the centre line of Gallowgate, thence westward along the centre line of Gallowgate to the centre line of Sydney Street, thence northward along the centre line of Sydney Street to the centre line of Duke Street, thence eastward along the centre line of Duke Street to the centre line of Ark Lane, thence northward along the centre line of Ark Lane and Firpark Street to the centre line of Alexandra Parade, thence eastward and north-eastward along the centre line of Alexandra Parade, and Cumbernauld Road to the east side of the Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Lines), thence southward to the point of commencement."

The Representation of the People Act 1948 provided that the constituency was to consist of "The following wards (as constituted by the Local Government (Scotland) (Glasgow Wards and Councillors) Order, 1948, S.I., 1948, No. 876) of the county of the city of Glasgow, namely, Dennistoun, Provan and that part of Mile-End ward which lies to the west of a line commencing at a point on the northern boundary of the ward immediately opposite the centre line of Millerston Street thence southward to and along the centre line of Millerston Street to the centre line of Gallowgate; thence eastward along the centre line of Gallowgate to a point opposite the centre line of Fielden Street; thence southward along the centre line of Fielden Street to the termination of the line on the southern boundary of the Mile-End ward immediately opposite the centre of Fielden Street."

The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Glasgow Bridgeton, Glasgow Provan and Glasgow Shettleston) Order, 1955 [2] provided for most of the area of the Camlachie constituency to be transferred to the new Glasgow Provan constituency, except for part of the Mile-End ward which was transferred to Glasgow Bridgeton.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [3] Party
1885 Hugh Watt Liberal
1892 Alexander Cross Liberal Unionist
1908 Liberal
Jan. 1910 Sir Halford John Mackinder Unionist
1922 Campbell Stephen ILP
1931 James Stevenson Unionist
1935 Campbell Stephen ILP
1947 Labour
1948 Charles Stuart McFarlane Unionist
1950 William Reid Labour
1955 constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Glasgow Camlachie[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Hugh Watt 4,047 56.9 n/a
Conservative Thomas Arnold Reid 2,883 40.6 n/a
Independent Liberal James Martin 177 2.5 n/a
Majority 1,164 16.3
Turnout
Liberal win
General Election 1886: Glasgow Camlachie [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Hugh Watt 3,467 51.2 -5.7
Liberal Unionist Bennet Graham Burleigh 3,308 48.8 +8.2
Majority 159 2.4 -13.9
Turnout 73.5
Liberal hold Swing -7.0

Elections in the 1890s

Cunninghame Graham
General Election 1892: Glasgow Camlachie [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Alexander Cross 3,455 45.3
Liberal John McCulloch 3,084 40.45 n/a
Scottish Parliamentary Labour Robert Cunninghame-Graham 906 11.9 n/a
Independent Liberal Hugh Watt 179 2.35 n/a
Majority
Turnout
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal Swing
Samuel Chisholm
General Election 1895: Glasgow Camlachie [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Alexander Cross 3,198
Liberal Samuel Chisholm 2,497
Ind. Labour Party Robert Smillie 696
Majority
Turnout
Liberal Unionist hold Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Glasgow Camlachie [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Alexander Cross 4,345
Scottish Workers Alfred Ewen Fletcher 3,107
Majority
Turnout
Liberal Unionist hold Swing
Joseph Burgess
General Election 1906: Glasgow Camlachie [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Alexander Cross 3,119 36.4
Liberal William Mather Rutherford Pringle 2,871 33.5
Ind. Labour Party Joseph Burgess 2,568 30.0
Majority
Turnout
Liberal Unionist hold Swing

Elections in the 1910s

Mackinder
General Election Jan 1910: Glasgow Camlachie [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Halford John Mackinder 3,227 38.1 n/a
Liberal Alexander Cross 2,793 33.0 n/a
Labour James O'Connor Kessack 2,443 28.9 -1.1
James Hogge
General Election Dec 1910: Glasgow Camlachie [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Unionist Halford John Mackinder 3,479 40.9 +2.8
Liberal James Myles Hogge 3,453 40.6 +7.6
Labour James O'Connor Kessack 1,539 18.1 -10.8
Womens Suffrage William Julius Mirrlees 35 0.4 n/a
Liberal Unionist hold Swing -2.4

The intervention of Mirrlees, the women's suffrage candidate, had the effect of ensuring the election of Mackinder, who opposed women's suffrage at the expense of Hogge, who supported it.

General Election 1918: Glasgow Camlachie [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Halford John Mackinder 13,645
Labour Hugh Boyd Guthrie 7,192
Liberal Daniel Browning 860
Unionist hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Glasgow Camlachie [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Campbell Stephen 15,181 53.2
Unionist Halford John Mackinder 11,439 40.1
Liberal W.C. Smith 1,896 6.6
Majority 3,742 13.1
Turnout 28,516
Labour gain from Unionist Swing
General Election 1923: Glasgow Camlachie [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Campbell Stephen 14,143
Unionist Sir Henry Shanks Keith 11,027
Majority
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1924: Glasgow Camlachie [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Campbell Stephen 14,588
Unionist Peter Denniston Ridge-Beedle 14,373
General Election 1929: Glasgow Camlachie [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Campbell Stephen 17,946 53.2
Unionist James Stevenson 14,160 42.0
National (Scotland) John MacDonald MacCormick 1,646 4.9
Majority 3,786 11.2
Turnout 33,752
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Glasgow Camlachie[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist James Stevenson 18,461
Ind. Labour Party Campbell Stephen 15,282
Unionist gain from Ind. Labour Party Swing
General Election 1935: Glasgow Camlachie [14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Labour Party Campbell Stephen 15,070
Unionist James Stevenson 14,186
Labour William Reid 2,732
Ind. Labour Party gain from Unionist Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Glasgow Camlachie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Labour Party Campbell Stephen 15,558 57.7
Unionist Charles Stuart McFarlane 11,399 42.3
Majority 4,159 15.4
Turnout 65.1
Ind. Labour Party hold Swing
Glasgow Camlachie by-election, 1948
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Charles Stuart McFarlane 11,085 43.7 + 1.4
Labour John M. Inglis 10,690 42.1 N/A
Ind. Labour Party Annie Maxton 1,622 6.4 - 51.3
SNP R. B. Wilkie 1,320 5.2 N/A
United Socialist Movement Guy Alfred Aldred 345 1.4 N/A
Liberal R. Goodfellow 312 1.2 N/A
Majority 395 1.6
Turnout 25,374 56.8
Unionist gain from Ind. Labour Party Swing N/A

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Glasgow Camlachie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Reid 21,013 51.5 N/A
Unionist Charles Stuart McFarlane 19,766 48.5
Majority 1,247 3.1
Turnout 80.7
Labour gain from Ind. Labour Party Swing N/A
General Election 1951: Glasgow Camlachie
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Reid 20,994 51.3
Unionist Charles Stuart McFarlane 19,969 48.8
Majority 1,025 2.5
Turnout 82.4
Labour hold Swing

References

  1. ↑ Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule
  2. ↑ Statutory Instrument 1955/23
  3. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 2)
  4. 1 2 Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
  5. ↑ The House of Commons, February 1901, Macmillan & Co.
  6. 1 2 3 Liberal Yearbook, 1939
  7. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
  8. 1 2 Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench 19216
  9. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
  10. ↑ The Times, 8 December 1923
  11. ↑ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
  12. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  13. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
  14. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
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