Midlothian and Peebles Northern (UK Parliament constituency)

Midlothian and Peebles Northern
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Edinburgh Pentlands
Created from	Midlothian

Midlothian and Peebles Northern was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1950. Along with Peebles and Southern, it was formed by dividing the old Midlothian constituency.

Boundaries

From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The Calder and Suburban County Districts, the burgh of Dalkeith, and that part of the Lasswade County District which is included in the extra-burghal portions of the parishes of Dalkeith and Inveresk."

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[1]	Party
	1918	Sir John Augustus Hope	Unionist
	1922	George Aitken Clark Hutchison	Unionist
	1923	Andrew Bathgate Clarke	Labour
	1924	Sir George Aitken Clark Hutchison	Unionist
	1929 by-election	Andrew Bathgate Clarke	Labour
	1929	John Colville	Unionist
	1943 by-election	Sir David King Murray	Unionist
	1945	Lord John Hope	Conservative
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Midlothian and Peebles Northern [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir John Augustus Hope	7,710
	Independent	J.B. Cadzow	4,198

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Midlothian and Peebles Northern[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	George Aitken Clark Hutchison	7,416	40.9
	Labour	Andrew Bathgate Clarke	6,942	38.3	n/a
	Liberal	Edward R. McNab	3,770	20.8	n/a
Majority			474	2.6
Turnout			18,128
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Midlothian and Peebles Northern [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Bathgate Clarke	8,583
	Unionist	George Aitken Clark Hutchison	6,738
	Liberal	Charles de Bois Murray	3,583
Majority
Turnout
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

General Election 1924: Midlothian and Peebles Northern[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	George Aitken Clark Hutchison	11,320
	Labour	Andrew Bathgate Clarke	9,173

Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, 1929 [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew Bathgate Clarke	7,917	42.0	+2.8
	Unionist	David John Colville	6,965	36.9	−18.3
	Liberal	David Edwin Keir	3,130	16.6	N/A
	National (Scotland)	James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence	842	4.5	N/A
Majority			952	5.1
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

General Election 1929: Midlothian and Peebles Northern[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	David John Colville	11,219	39.1
	Labour	Andrew Bathgate Clarke	10,779	37.5
	Liberal	David Edwin Keir	6,726	23.4
Majority			440	1.6

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Midlothian and Peebles Northern[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	David John Colville	22,211
	Labour	Andrew Bathgate Clarke	8,501

General Election 1935: Midlothian and Peebles Northern [9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	David John Colville	23,711
	Labour	James Lean	13,970

Midlothian and Peebles Northern by-election, 1943 [10][11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Thomas David King Murray	11,620	51.9	−11.0
	Common Wealth	Thomas Henry Wintringham	10,751	48.1	N/A
Majority			869	3.8	−22.0
Turnout			22,371	34.6	−39.7
	Unionist hold		Swing	−11.0

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Midlothian and Peebles Northern
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Adrian Louis Hope	24,834	47.95
	Labour	James Lean	23,657	45.68
	Common Wealth	Kitty Wintringham	3,299	6.37
Majority			1,177	2.27
Turnout			51,790	70.33
	Unionist hold		Swing

References

1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)
2. Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
3. The Times, 17 November 1922
4. The Times, 8 December 1923
5. Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
6. The Times, 31 January 1929
7. The Times, 1 June 1929
8. Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
9. Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
10. Whitaker's Almanack, 1944
11. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 638. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.