North East Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 55°49′44″N 3°45′36″W / 55.829°N 3.760°W

North East Lanarkshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Number of members	One

North East Lanarkshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1885 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

Boundaries

The name relates the constituency to the county of Lanark. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the North-East division was to consist of "the parishes of New Monkland, Shotts, Dalziel, Bothwell, and so much of the parish of Hamilton as lies north and east of the River Clyde".^[1]

Member of Parliament

Election		Member[2]	Party
	1885	Donald Crawford	Liberal
	1895	John Colville	Liberal
	1901 by-election	Sir William Henry Rattigan	Liberal Unionist
	1904 by-election	Alexander Findlay	Liberal
	January 1910	Thomas Fleming Wilson	Liberal
	1911 by-election	James Duncan Millar	Liberal
	1918	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: North East Lanarkshire [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Donald Crawford	4,564		n/a
	Conservative	John Charles Cunninghame	4,405		n/a
Majority					n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Liberal win

General Election 1886: North East Lanarkshire [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Donald Crawford	4,269
	Liberal Unionist	Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke	3,990
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: North East Lanarkshire [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Donald Crawford	5,281
	Conservative	Alexander Whitelaw	5,184
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1895: North East Lanarkshire [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Colville	6,288
	Conservative	Alexander Whitelaw	5,751
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: North East Lanarkshire [7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Colville	7,120
	Liberal Unionist	Sir William Henry Rattigan	5,567
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

C.B. Harmsworth

Robert Smillie

North East Lanarkshire by-election, 1901[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Sir William Henry Rattigan	5,673	42.6	-1.3
	Liberal	Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth	4,769	35.7	-20.4
	Scottish Workers	Robert Smillie	2,900	21.7	n/a
Majority				6.9	19.1
Turnout				79.0
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

George Touche

John Robertson

North East Lanarkshire by-election, 1904[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alexander Findlay	5,619	39.3	+3.6
	Conservative	George Alexander Touche	4,677	32.8	-9.8
	Scottish Workers	John Robertson	3,984	27.9	+6.2
Majority			942	6.5	13.4
Turnout				75.5	-3.5
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing

General Election January 1906[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alexander Findlay	6,436	40.4	+1.1
	Conservative	Hugh Elliot	4,838	30.4	-2.4
	Scottish Workers	John Robertson	4,658	29.2	+1.3
Majority				10.0	+3.5
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

Joseph Sullivan

General Election Jan 1910: North East Lanarkshire [11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Fleming Wilson	9,105	49.8
	Conservative	James Robertson Wilson	7,012	38.4
	Labour	Joseph Sullivan	2,160	11.8
Majority			2,093	11.4
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election Dec 1910: North East Lanarkshire [12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Fleming Wilson	9,848	58.0
	Conservative	John Peers Boyd-Carpenter	7,142	42.0
Majority			2,706	16.0	+4.6
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing	+2.3

Duncan Millar

North East Lanarkshire by-election, 1911[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Duncan Millar	7,976	45.3
	Conservative	Park Goff	6,776	38.4
	Labour	John Robertson	2,879	16.3
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

References

1. Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, Seventh Schedule, Part II
2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)
3. Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
4. Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
5. Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
6. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
7. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
8. British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 by Craig
9. British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 by Craig
10. British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 by Craig
11. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
12. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
13. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916