Glasgow Tradeston (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Tradeston

Former constituency
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Subdivisions of Scotland City of Glasgow
1885 (1885)–1955 (1955)
Created from Glasgow

Glasgow Tradeston was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1955. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.

Boundaries

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

In 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the centre of Glasgow Bridge at the centre line of the River Clyde, thence southward along the centre line of Glasgow Bridge, Bridge Street and Eglinton Street to the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway at Eglinton Street Station, thence westward along the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway (Paisley Canal Line) to the centre line of Shields Road, thence northwards along the centre line of Shields Road to the centre line of the Caledonian Railway, thence westward along the centre line of the said Caledonian Railway and the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway to a point in line with the centre line of Church Road, thence northward along the centre line of Church Road, Whitefield Road, and the portion of Govan Road to the west of Princes Dock and continuation thereof to the centre line of the River Clyde, thence eastward along the centre line of the River Clyde to the point of commencement."

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [2] Party
1885 Archibald Cameron Corbett, later Baron Rowallan Liberal
1886 Liberal Unionist
January 1910 Independent Liberal
December 1910 Liberal
1911 James Dundas White Liberal
1918 Vivian Leonard Henderson Unionist
1922 Thomas Henderson Labour Co-operative
1931 William Hannah McLean Unionist
1935 Thomas Henderson Labour Co-operative
1945 John Rankin Labour Co-operative
1955 constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Glasgow Tradeston [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Archibald Cameron Corbett 4,354 n/a
Conservative James Somervell 3,240 n/a
Scottish Land Restoration Wallace McGuffin Greaves 86 n/a
Majority n/a
Turnout n/a
Liberal win
General Election 1886: Glasgow Tradeston [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Unionist Archibald Cameron Corbett 3,878 n/a
Liberal Prof J.M.D. Mieklejohn 3,174 n/a
Majority n/a
Turnout
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal Swing n/a

Elections in the 1890s

James Caldwell
General Election 1892: Glasgow Tradeston [4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Unionist Archibald Cameron Corbett 3,366
Liberal James Caldwell 3,197
Scottish Labour Bennet Burleigh 783 n/a
Majority
Turnout
Liberal Unionist hold Swing
General Election 1895: Glasgow Tradeston [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Unionist Archibald Cameron Corbett 3,373
Liberal George Green 2,568
Ind. Labour Party Francis Samuel Smith 468
Majority
Turnout
Liberal Unionist hold Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Glasgow Tradeston [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Unionist Archibald Cameron Corbett 4,389
Liberal William Maxwell 2,785
Majority
Turnout
Liberal Unionist hold Swing
General Election 1906: Glasgow Tradeston [5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Unionist 4,416 50.6
Liberal David Marshall Mason 4,063 46.6
Independent Unionist A. Rosenthal 245 2.8 n/a
Majority
Turnout
Liberal Unionist hold Swing

Elections in the 1910s

David Mason
General Election Jan 1910: Glasgow Tradeston [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Independent Liberal Archibald Cameron Corbett 2,966
Liberal Unionist Archibald Pollock Main 2,773
Liberal David Marshall Mason 2,673
Majority
Turnout
Independent Liberal hold Swing
General Election Dec 1910: Glasgow Tradeston [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Archibald Cameron Corbett 4,811 60.5
Liberal Unionist Archibald Pollock Main 3,137 39.5
Majority 21.0
Turnout
Liberal hold Swing
Glasgow Tradeston by-election, 1911[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal James Dundas White 3,869
Conservative John Henry Watts 1,086
Majority
Turnout
Liberal hold Swing
General Election 14 December 1918: Glasgow Tradeston [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist 12,250
British Socialist Party James Dunlop MacDougall 3,751 n/a
Liberal James Dundas White 3,369
Majority
Turnout
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Glasgow Tradeston [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Thomas Henderson 14,190 55.7
Unionist Vivian Leonard Henderson 9,977 39.2
Liberal Charles de Bois Murray 1,310 5.1
Majority 4,213 16.5
Turnout 25,477
Labour gain from Unionist Swing
General Election 1923: Glasgow Tradeston [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Thomas Henderson 12,787
Liberal Douglas Macdonald 8,479
Majority
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1924: Glasgow Tradeston [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Thomas Henderson 14,067
Liberal Douglas Macdonald 11,074
Majority
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1929: Glasgow Tradeston [11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Thomas Henderson 17,864 58.7
Unionist Ingram Spencer 12,592 41.3 n/a
Majority 5,272 17.3
Turnout 30,456
Labour hold Swing n/a

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Glasgow Tradeston [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist William Hannah MacLean 15,067
Labour Thomas Henderson 13,579
Majority
Turnout
Unionist gain from Labour Swing
General Election 1935: Glasgow Tradeston [13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Thomas Henderson 12,253
Unionist William Hannah MacLean 10,354
Ind. Labour Party James Carmichael 3,423
Majority
Turnout
Labour gain from Unionist Swing

References

  1. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule
  2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
  3. 1 2 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
  4. Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
  5. 1 2 3 Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
  6. 1 2 3 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
  7. British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 by Craig, F.W.S. (1974)
  8. The Times, 16 November 1922
  9. The Times, 8 December 1923
  10. Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
  11. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  12. Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
  13. Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
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