Glasgow Hillhead (UK Parliament constituency)

For the district of Glasgow, see Hillhead; for the local government ward, see Politics of Glasgow.

Glasgow Hillhead
Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	City of Glasgow
1918–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Glasgow Kelvin

Glasgow Hillhead was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.

Boundaries

1918-1945: "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point in the municipal boundary at its intersection with the centre line of the River Kelvin, thence southeastward, southward and southwestward along the centre line of the River Kelvin to the centre line of the North British Railway (Stobcross Branch), thence north-westward along the centre of the said North British Railway to its intersection with the municipal boundary, thence northeastward along the municipal boundary to the point of commencement".

1945-1974: The Glasgow wards of Kelvinside, Partick West, and part of Whiteinch.

1974-1983: The Glasgow wards of Kelvinside, Partick West, and Whiteinch.

1983-1997: The City of Glasgow District electoral divisions of Kelvindale/Kelvinside, Partick/Anderston, and Scotstoun/Broomhill.

History

Along with Glasgow Cathcart, Hillhead was one of two safe Conservative seats in Glasgow for several decades. But the majorities in both constituencies were gradually reduced by Labour in the 1970s; Cathcart went Labour in 1979 (their only loss in their overall national victory that year), while Hillhead just remained Conservative by a small majority. In the subsequent by-election of 1982, the Conservatives lost their final seat in Glasgow not to Labour but to the newly formed SDP, with the former Labour cabinet minister Roy Jenkins becoming the MP. Jenkins held on in 1983 but lost the seat to George Galloway in 1987.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Robert Horne	Conservative
	1937 by-election	James Reid	Conservative
	1948 by-election	Tam Galbraith	Conservative
	1982 by-election	Roy Jenkins	SDP
	1987	George Galloway	Labour
1997		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Glasgow Hillhead [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Robert Stevenson Horne	12,803	75.4	n/a
	Labour	John Izett	4,186	24.6	n/a
Majority			8,617	50.8	n/a
Turnout				63.4	n/a
	Unionist win

• endorsed by Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Glasgow Hillhead [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir Robert Stevenson Horne	12,272	62.7	-12.7
	Liberal	Edwin James Donaldson	7,313	37.3	n/a
Majority			4,959	25.4	-25.4
Turnout				75.5	+12.1
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1923: Glasgow Hillhead [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir Robert Stevenson Horne	9,757	51.0	-11.7
	Labour	John Laing Kinloch	5,059	26.4	n/a
	Liberal	Edwin James Donaldson	4,331	22.6	-14.7
Majority			4,698	24.6	-0.8
Turnout				73.2	-2.3
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1924: Glasgow Hillhead [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir Robert Stevenson Horne	14,572	67.7
	Labour	John Laing Kinloch	6,957	32.3
Majority			7,615	35.4
Turnout				78.2
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Glasgow Hillhead [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir Robert Stevenson Horne	17,395	63.3	-4.4
	Labour	W.S. Cormack	10,065	36.7	+4.4
Majority			7,330	26.6	-8.8
Turnout				74.9	-3.3
	Unionist hold		Swing	-4.4

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Glasgow Hillhead [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir Robert Stevenson Horne	21,279	73.84
	Labour	Charles Aloysius O'Donnell	7,539	26.16
Majority			13,740	47.68
Turnout			28,818	80.0
	Unionist hold		Swing

• endorsed by constituency party but not by borough party

General Election 1935: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Sir Robert Stevenson Horne	18,367	68.20
	Labour	James McCullock	8,566	31.80
Majority			9,801	36.39
Turnout				73.24
	Unionist hold		Swing

Glasgow Hillhead by-election, 1937[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. James Scott Cumberland Reid	12,539
	Labour	Gilbert McAllister	7,539
	SNP	John MacDonald MacCormick	1,886	9.0	n/a
	Independent	D.J. Black	221	1.1	n/a
Majority			6,337	30.5
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Glasgow Hillhead[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	James Scott Cumberland Reid	14,909	58.6
	Labour	Hugh Turner McCalman	8,545	33.6
	Liberal	John Gray Wilson	2,003	7.8
Majority			6,364	25.0
Turnout				66.0
	Unionist hold		Swing

Glasgow Hillhead by-election, 1948
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith	16,060	68.4
	Labour	Thomas Alexander MacNair	7,419	31.6
Majority			8,641	36.8
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Glasgow Hillhead[9][10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith	23,181	60.73	+2.1
	Labour	George Morgan Thomson	12,920	33.85	+0.3
	Liberal	Pamela Gibson	2,072	5.43	-2.4
Majority			10,261	26.88	+1.9
Turnout			38,173	82.17	+16.2
Registered electors			46,455
	Unionist hold		Swing	+0.9

General Election 1951: Glasgow Hillhead[11][12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith	24,654	64.86	+4.13
	Labour	Hyman Shapiro	13,359	35.14	+1.29
Majority			11,295	29.71	+2.83
Turnout			38,013	82.21	+0.04
Registered electors			46,238
	Unionist hold		Swing	+1.42

General Election 1955: Glasgow Hillhead[13][14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith	20,106	67.57	+2.71
	Labour	Jane B Davidson	9,648	32.43	-2.71
Majority			10,458	35.15	+5.44
Turnout			29,754	79.92	-9.29
Registered electors			40,802
	Unionist hold		Swing	+2.71

General Election 1959: Glasgow Hillhead[15][16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith	20,094	68.32	+0.75
	Labour	Thomas B Duncan	9,317	31.68	-0.75
Majority			10,777	36.64	+1.49
Turnout			29,411	77.08	-2.84
Registered electors			38,154
	Unionist hold		Swing	+0.75

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Glasgow Hillhead[17][18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith	16,993	63.97	-4.35
	Labour	Thomas B Duncan	9,572	36.03	+4.35
Majority			7,421	27.94	-8.70
Turnout			26,565	74.66	-2.42
Registered electors			35,580
	Unionist hold		Swing	-4.35

General Election 1966: Glasgow Hillhead[19][20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith	15,899	62.88	-1.09
	Labour	William Boyle	9,384	37.12	+1.09
Majority			6,515	25.77	-2.17
Turnout			25,283	73.52	-1.14
Registered electors			34,388
	Conservative hold		Swing	-1.09

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith	14,674	61.3
	Labour	John Vincent Cable	7,303	30.5
	SNP	G Wotherspoon	1,957	8.2
Majority			7,371	30.8
Turnout				69.5

General Election February 1974: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith	14,378	44.0
	Labour	D Welsh	7,997	24.4
	Liberal	L Steedman	6,644	20.3
	SNP	K Bovey	3,702	11.3
Majority			6,381	19.5
Turnout				78.8

General Election October 1974: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith	11,203	37.1
	Labour	D Welsh	8,507	28.2
	SNP	G Borthwick	6,897	22.9
	Liberal	A Rennie	3,596	11.9
Majority			2,696	8.9
Turnout				72.4

General Election 1979: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith	12,368	41.0
	Labour	R Mowbray	10,366	34.4
	Liberal	M Harris	4,349	14.4
	SNP	G Borthwick	3,050	10.1
Majority			2,002	6.6
Turnout				71.9

Elections in the 1980s

Glasgow Hillhead by-election, 1982
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democratic	Rt Hon. Roy Harris Jenkins	10,106	33.4	N/A
	Conservative	Peter Gerald Malone	8,068	26.6	- 14.4
	Labour	David Wiseman	7,846	25.9	- 8.5
	SNP	George Andrew Leslie	3,416	11.3	+ 1.2
	Protestant Crusade against the Papal Visit	John Thomas Atkinson Glass	388	1.3	N/A
	Social Democrat (1979)	Roy Harold Jenkins	282	0.9	N/A
	Ecology	Nicolette Carlaw	178	0.6	N/A
	Public Safety Democratic Monarchist White Resident	William George Boaks	5	0.0	N/A
Majority			2,038	6.8	- 0.2
Turnout				76.4	+ 0.7
	Social Democratic gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1983: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democratic	Rt Hon. Roy Harris Jenkins	14,856	36.2
	Labour	Neil George Carmichael	13,692	33.4
	Conservative	Murray Tosh	9,678	23.5
	SNP	George Andrew Leslie	2,203	5.4
	Independent Conservative	John P. Davidson	249	0.6
	Ecology	Alastair Whitelaw	239	0.6
	Animal Rights Campaign - Scottish Anti-Vivisection	John Frederick Robins	139	0.3
Majority			1,164	2.8
Turnout			41,056	71.9
	Social Democratic gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1987: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Galloway	17,958	42.9
	Social Democratic	Rt Hon. Roy Harris Jenkins	14,707	35.1
	Conservative	Brian David Cooklin	6,048	14.5
	SNP	William Hill Kidd	2,713	6.5
	Green	Alastair Whitelaw	443	1.1
Majority			3,251	7.8
Turnout			41,869	72.4
	Labour gain from Social Democratic		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Galloway	15,148	38.5
	Liberal Democrat	Chris Mason	10,322	26.2
	Conservative	Aileen Bates	6,728	17.1
	SNP	Sandra White	6,484	16.5
	Scottish Green	Ms. Lizbeth. R. Collie	558	1.4
	Revolutionary Communist	Ms. Helen Gold	73	0.2
	Natural Law	Duncan Patterson	60	0.1
Majority			4,826	12.3
Turnout				68.7
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
2. British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949
3. The Times, 8 December 1923
4. Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
5. British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949
6. Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
7. Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
8. Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
9. Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1950". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
11. Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1951". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
13. Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1955". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
15. Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1959". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
17. Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1964". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
19. Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1966". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)