Moray and Nairn (UK Parliament constituency)

Moray and Nairn
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Moray Inverness, Nairn & Lochaber
Created from	Elginshire & Nairnshire Elgin Burghs Inverness Burghs

Moray and Nairn was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1983.

It was formed by the amalgamation of the county constituency Elginshire and Nairnshire with the parliamentary burghs of Elgin, previously part of Elgin Burghs, and Nairn and Forres, previously part of Inverness Burghs.

It was split for the 1983 general election and incorporated into Moray and Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Archibald Williamson	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Thomas Maule Guthrie	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Thomas Maule Guthrie	National Liberal
	1923	James Stuart	Unionist
	1959	Gordon Campbell	Conservative
	1974	Winnie Ewing	SNP
	1979	Alex Pollock	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 14 December 1918: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Sir Archibald Williamson	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Liberal win

endorsed by Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

Moray and Nairn by-election, 1922
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Coalition Liberal	Thomas Maule Guthrie	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Coalition Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1922: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	National Liberal	Thomas Maule Guthrie	6,263	51.8	n/a
	Liberal	James Scott	5,832	48.2	n/a
Majority			431	3.6	n/a
Turnout			12,095	49.0	n/a
	National Liberal hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1923: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Hon. James Grey Stuart	8,116	53.4	n/a
	Liberal	Thomas Maule Guthrie	7,089	46.6	n/a
Majority			1,027	6.8	10.4
Turnout			15,215	61.3	+12.3
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	n/a

General Election 1924: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	±
	Unionist	Hon. James Grey Stuart	9,762
	Labour	Benjamin Skene Mackay	6,005	n/a
Majority			3,757
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Hon. James Grey Stuart	8,896	43.7
	Labour	Joseph Forbes Duncan	6,563	32.3
	Liberal	John Edward Tennant	4,889	24.0	n/a
Majority			2,333	11.5
Turnout			20,348	68.7
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Hon. James Grey Stuart	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 14 November 1935: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Hon. James Grey Stuart	12,755		n/a
	Labour	James Davidson Vassie	7,347		n/a
Majority					n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	Hon. James Grey Stuart	12,809	61.58
	Labour	Sinclair Shaw	7,993	38.42
Majority			4,816	23.15
Turnout				62.13
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	Hon. James Grey Stuart	15,478	59.85
	Labour	Richard Murray	10,383	40.15
Majority			5,095	19.70
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	Hon. James Grey Stuart	15,881	60.23
	Labour	David Hutchinson	10,487	39.77
Majority			5,394	20.46
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	Hon. James Grey Stuart	14,667	60.59
	Labour	M Mackay	9,538	39.41
Majority			5,129	21.19
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	Gordon Thomas Calthrop Campbell	13,742	52.63
	Labour	M. Mackay	6,539	25.04
	Liberal	Donald C. MacDonald	5,831	22.33
Majority			7,203	27.59
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	Gordon Thomas Calthrop Campbell	12,741	50.86
	Labour	Gordon McIntosh	6,830	27.27
	Liberal	John Macleod	5,478	21.87
Majority			5,911	23.60
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1966: Moray & Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Gordon Thomas Calthrop Campbell	11,842	48.15
	Labour	Donald MacKenzie	8,384	34.09
	Liberal	Thomas Alexander MacNair	4,368	17.76
Majority			3,458	14.06
Turnout			24,594	68.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Moray and Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Gordon Thomas Calthrop Campbell	13,994	49.39
	SNP	Thomas A Howe	7,885	27.83
	Labour	Peter Talbot	6,452	22.77
Majority			6,109	21.56
Turnout				72.05
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Moray and Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SNP	Winifred Margaret Ewing	16,046	49.26
	Conservative	Gordon Thomas Calthrop Campbell	14,229	43.68
	Labour	E G Smith	2,299	7.06
Majority			1,817	5.58
Turnout				78.72
	SNP gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election October 1974: Moray and Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	SNP	Winifred Margaret Ewing	12,667	41.2
	Conservative	Alexander Pollock	12,300	40.0
	Labour	E.G. Smith	2,985	9.7
	Liberal	Keith Schellenberg	2,814	9.15
Majority			367	1.19
Turnout				74.72
	SNP hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Moray and Nairn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Alexander Pollock	14,220	40.07
	SNP	Winifred Margaret Ewing	13,800	38.89
	Liberal	Stephen Charles Rodan	4,361	12.29
	Labour	G E Scobie	3,104	8.75
Majority			420	1.18
Turnout				77.47
	Conservative gain from SNP		Swing

References

Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)

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