Glasgow Kelvingrove (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Kelvingrove
Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	City of Glasgow
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Glasgow Maryhill and Glasgow Hillhead[1]

Glasgow Kelvingrove was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.

Boundaries

1950-1955: The County of the City of Glasgow wards of Anderston and Park.

1955-1974: The County of the City of Glasgow wards of Anderston and Park, and part of Exchange ward.

1974-1983: The County of the City of Glasgow wards of Anderston, North Kelvin, Park, Partick East, and Woodside.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [2]	Party
	1918	John MacLeod	Coalition Conservative
	1922	William Hutchison	Unionist
	1924 by-election	Walter Elliot	Unionist
	1945	John Lloyd Williams	Labour
	1950	Walter Elliot	Unionist
	1958 by-election	Mary McAlister	Labour
	1959	Frank Lilley	Unionist
	1964	Maurice Miller	Labour
	Feb 1974	Neil Carmichael	Labour
1983		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Glasgow Kelvingrove [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Mackintosh MacLeod	13,648	64.2	n/a
	Independent Labour	Walter Graham Leachman	5,012	23.6	n/a
	Liberal	George MacPherson	2,582	12.2	n/a
Majority			8,636	40.6	n/a
Turnout				53.5	n/a
	Unionist win

• endorsed by the Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Glasgow Kelvingrove [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	William Hutchison	13,442	54.8	-9.4
	Liberal	R Roxburgh	11,094	45.2	+33.0
Majority			2,348	9.6	-31.0
Turnout				64.5	+11.0
	Unionist hold		Swing	-15.5

General Election 1923: Glasgow Kelvingrove [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	William Hutchison	11,025	42.9	-11.9
	Communist	Aitken Ferguson	10,021	39.0	n/a
	Liberal	Alexander James Grieve	4,662	18.1	-27.1
Majority			1,004	3.9	-5.7
Turnout				68.2	+3.7
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election, 1924 [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Walter Elliot Elliot	15,488	55.3
	Labour	Aitken Ferguson	11,167	39.8
	Liberal	Sir John William Pratt	1,372	4.9
Majority			4,321	15.5
Turnout				70.5
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1924: Glasgow Kelvingrove [7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Walter Elliot Elliot	18,034	58.4
	Labour	Thomas Archibald Kerr	12,844	41.6
Majority			5,190	16.8
Turnout				77.5
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Glasgow Kelvingrove [8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Walter Elliot Elliot	17,031	48.9	-9.5
	Labour	John Winning	15,173	43.6	+2.0
	Liberal	William Reid	2,623	7.5	n/a
Majority			1,858	5.3	-11.5
Turnout				74.9	-2.6
	Unionist hold		Swing	-5.7

Elections in the 1930s

Walter Elliot

General Election 1931: Glasgow Kelvingrove[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Walter Elliot Elliot	21,481	63.4
	Ind. Labour Party	John Winning	12,415	36.6
Majority			9,066	26.8
Turnout				76.7
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1935: Glasgow Kelvingrove [10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Walter Elliot Elliot	15,100	48.7
	Labour	Hector McNeil	14,951	48.1
	Liberal	Henry George Rae	1,004	3.2
Majority			149	0.6
Turnout				72.5
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1939/40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Unionist: Rt Hon. Walter Elliot Elliot
• Labour:
• Liberal:

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Glasgow Kelvingrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Lloyd Williams	12,273	46.0
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Walter Elliot Elliot	12,185	45.7
	SNP	Christopher Murray Grieve	1,314	4.9
	Liberal	Charles John Edwin Morgan	919	3.4
Majority			88	0.3
Turnout				61.7
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Glasgow Kelvingrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Walter Elliot Elliot	15,197	49.6
	Labour	John Lloyd Williams	13,973	45.6
	Liberal	Sydney John Ranger	831	2.7
	SNP	Christopher Murray Grieve	639	2.1
Majority			1,224	4.0
Turnout
	Unionist gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1951: Glasgow Kelvingrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Walter Elliot Elliot	15,837	52.4
	Labour	John Lloyd Williams	14,406	47.6
Majority			1,431	4.8
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Glasgow Kelvingrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Rt Hon. Walter Elliot Elliot	14,854	55.4
	Labour	John Lloyd Williams	11,966	44.6
Majority			2,888	10.8
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Agnes McMackin McAlister	10,210	48.00	+3.38
	Unionist	Katharine Elliot	8,850	41.61	-13.77
	Independent Liberal	David Murray	1,622	7.63	N/A
	Ind. Labour Party	William C Park	587	2.76	N/A
Majority			1,360	6.39
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

General Election 1959: Glasgow Kelvingrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Francis James Patrick Lilley	12,355	50.7
	Labour	Mary Agnes McMackin McAlister	11,254	46.2
	Ind. Labour Party	William C Park	740	3.0
Majority			1,101	4.5
Turnout
	Unionist gain from Labour		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Glasgow Kelvingrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maurice Solomon Miller	10,340	54.1
	Unionist	Francis James Patrick Lilley	8,791	45.9
Majority			1,549	8.2
Turnout
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

General Election 1966: Glasgow Kelvingrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maurice Solomon Miller	9,311	57.8
	Conservative	Francis James Patrick Lilley	6,793	42.2
Majority			2,518	15.6
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Glasgow Kelvingrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maurice Solomon Miller	6,106	53.7
	Conservative	Ronald E Dundas	5,274	46.3
Majority			832	7.4
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Glasgow Kelvingrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Neil George Carmichael	13,115	44.5
	Conservative	ART Kenyon	10,717	36.3
	SNP	C MacKellar	5,666	19.2
Majority			2,398	8.2
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Glasgow Kelvingrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Neil George Carmichael	11,567	42.8
	Conservative	J Rennie	7,448	27.6
	SNP	C Calman	6,274	23.2
	Liberal	S Glasgow	1,735	6.4
Majority			4,119	15.2
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Glasgow Kelvingrove
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Neil George Carmichael	11,133	50.33
	Conservative	ACS MacDougall	6,374	28.82
	Liberal	E Bennett	2,412	10.91
	SNP	IO Bayne	2,199	9.94
Majority			4,759	21.52
Turnout				65.63
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. "'Glasgow Kelvingrove', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)
3. Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
4. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
5. The Times, 8 December 1923
6. The Times, 26 May 1924
7. Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Alamanac, 1927
8. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
9. Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
10. Whitaker's Almanack, 1939