Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1918–1983
SeatsOne
Created from Stirlingshire, Clackmannan & Kinross and Falkirk Burghs
Replaced by Clackmannan, Falkirk East and Falkirk West [1]

Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire was a parliamentary constituency in the Clackmannan area of Central Scotland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

Contents

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was replaced by the new Clackmannan constituency.

The constituency comprised two separate parts, north and south of Falkirk town centre, with part of the similarly split Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth constituency in between.

Boundaries

Following the Representation of the People Act 1948, the seat of Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire was described in 1950 as being composed of:

This would continue until the seat's abolition in 1983.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [3] Party
1918 Ralph Glyn Unionist
1922 MacNeill Weir Labour
1931 James Wellwood Johnston Unionist
1935 MacNeill Weir Labour
1939 by-election Arthur Woodburn Labour
1970 Dick Douglas Labour Co-operative
Feb 1974 George Reid SNP
1979 Martin O'Neill Labour
1983 constituency abolished: see Clackmannan

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

General election 1918: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
C Unionist Ralph Glyn 6,77138.5
Co-operative Party Henry May 5,75332.8
Liberal William Chapple 5,04028.7
Majority1,0185.7
Turnout 17,56455.0
Registered electors 31,916
Unionist win (new seat)
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour MacNeill Weir 10,312 42.0 New
Liberal Craigie Aitchison 7,37930.0+1.3
Unionist Ralph Glyn 6,88828.0−10.5
Majority2,93312.0N/A
Turnout 24,57977.9+22.9
Registered electors 31,563
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +9.9
General election 1923: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour MacNeill Weir 10,492 51.1 +9.1
Liberal Craigie Aitchison 10,04348.9+18.9
Majority4492.2−9.8
Turnout 20,53564.2−13.7
Registered electors 31,976
Labour hold Swing −4.9
General election 1924: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour MacNeill Weir 13,032 52.6 +1.5
Liberal Edwin Donaldson11,75247.4−1.5
Majority1,2805.2+3.0
Turnout 24,78477.0+12.8
Registered electors 32,195
Labour hold Swing +1.5
General election 1929: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour MacNeill Weir 17,667 53.2 +0.6
Unionist Harold Mitchell 8,77826.4New
Liberal Edwin Donaldson6,76020.4−27.0
Majority8,88926.8+21.6
Turnout 33,20578.0+1.0
Registered electors 42,567
Labour hold Swing +13.8

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist James Wellwood Johnston 20,425 59.9 +33.5
Labour MacNeill Weir 13,66940.1-13.1
Majority6,75619.8-7.0
Turnout 34,09477.7-0.3
Unionist gain from Labour Swing
General election 1935: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour MacNeill Weir 14,881 42.3 +2.2
Unionist James Wellwood Johnston 13,73839.0-20.9
Liberal George Honeyman5,06214.4New
Ind. Labour Party David Gibson 1,5134.3New
Majority1,1433.3N/A
Turnout 35,19476.2-1.5
Labour gain from Unionist Swing
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire by-election, 1939 [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Woodburn 15,645 93.7 +51.4
PacifistAndrew Stewart1,0606.4New
Majority14,58587.3+84.0
Turnout 16,70535.4-40.8
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Woodburn 24,622 62.9 +20.6
Unionist John Gilmour 14,52237.1-1.9
Majority10,10025.8+22.5
Turnout 39,14471.9-4.3
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire: Stirlingshire East and Clackmannan
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Woodburn 22,980 56.5 -6.4
Unionist Spencer Douglas Loch13,63033.5-3.6
Liberal Charles Hampton Johnston 4,07810.0New
Majority9,35023.0-2.8
Turnout 40,68883.4+11.5
Labour hold Swing
General election 1951: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Woodburn 25,231 58.7 +2.2
Unionist Spencer Douglas Loch17,72741.3+7.8
Majority7,50417.4-5.6
Turnout 42,95885.7+2.3
Labour hold Swing
General election 1955: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Woodburn 23,588 58.7 0.0
Unionist Raymond Craigie Aitchison7,00941.30.0
Majority9,35017.40.0
Turnout 30,59779.8-5.9
Labour hold Swing
General election 1959: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Woodburn 25,004 59.3 +0.6
Unionist Raymond Craigie Aitchison17,13240.7-0.6
Majority7,87218.6+1.2
Turnout 42,13680.7+0.9
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Woodburn 23,927 57.2 -2.1
Unionist Angus MacDonald12,81530.6-10.1
SNP Douglas Drysdale 5,10612.2New
Majority11,11226.6+8.0
Turnout 41,84879.8-0.9
Labour hold Swing
General election 1966: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Arthur Woodburn 22,557 55.3 -1.9
Conservative Angus MacDonald10,03724.5-6.1
SNP Douglas Drysdale 8,22520.1+7.9
Majority12,52030.8+4.2
Turnout 40,81977.5-2.3
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Dick Douglas 23,729 50.7 -4.6
Conservative James Fairlie13,17828.2+3.7
SNP Ian Macdonald 7,24315.5-4.6
Liberal Robert E. Bell2,6405.6New
Majority10,55122.5-8.3
Turnout 46,79075.6-1.9
Labour hold Swing
General election February 1974: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SNP George Reid 22,289 43.5 +28.0
Labour Co-op Dick Douglas 18,67936.4-14.3
Conservative A.H. Lester9,99419.5-8.7
Communist George Bolton 3220.6New
Majority3,6107.1N/A
Turnout 51,28482.4+6.8
SNP gain from Labour Swing
General election October 1974: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
SNP George Reid 25,998 50.8 +7.3
Labour Co-op Dick Douglas 18,65736.40.0
Conservative TNA Begg5,26910.3-9.2
Liberal D Shields1,2682.5New
Majority7,34114.4+7.3
Turnout 51,19279.5-2.9
SNP hold Swing
General election 1979: Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Martin O'Neill 22,780 41.9 +4.5
SNP George Reid 21,79640.1-8.7
Conservative T.N.A. Begg9,77818.0+7.7
Majority9841.8N/A
Turnout 54,35481.7+2.2
Labour gain from SNP Swing

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References

  1. ↑ "'Stirlingshire East and Clackmannan', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Boundary Commission for Scotland
  3. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)
  4. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
  5. ↑ The Times, 17 November 1922
  6. ↑ The Times, 8 December 1923
  7. ↑ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
  8. ↑ The Times, 1 June 1929
  9. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
  10. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
  11. ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1944
  12. ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig

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