Glasgow College (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow College
Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons
Major settlements	Glasgow
1885–1918
Number of members	One
Created from	Glasgow

Glasgow College was a parliamentary constituency in Glasgow. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the plurality voting system.

History

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

Boundaries

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of the Tenth and Eleventh Municipal Wards. ^[1]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir Charles Cameron	Liberal
	1895	Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell	Unionist
	1906	Henry Anderson Watt	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished

Elections

General Election Dec 1910: Glasgow College [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Anderson Watt	6,291
	Conservative	Ralph George Campbell Glyn	5,932

General Election Jan 1910: Glasgow College [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Anderson Watt	6,525
	Conservative	Sir John Stirling-Maxwell	5,823

General Election 1906: Glasgow College [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Anderson Watt	7,359	56.5
	Conservative	Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell Bt	5,676	43.5

General Election 1900: Glasgow College [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell Bt	6,629
	Liberal	Robert Paterson	5,160

General Election 1895: Glasgow College [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell Bt	5,364
	Liberal	Dr Charles Cameron	4,219

General Election 1892: Glasgow College [7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dr Charles Cameron	5,804
	Conservative	Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell Bt	4,758
	Scottish Trades Councils	Robert Brodie	225

General Election 1886: Glasgow College [8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Cameron MD LLD	4,880
	Liberal Unionist	Richard Vary Campbell	4,225

General Election 1885: Glasgow College [9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Cameron MD LLD	5,662
	Conservative	Lieut Col Sir William Montgomery Cunninghame	4,139

References

1. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule
2. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
3. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
4. Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
5. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
6. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
7. Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
8. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
9. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 5)