Combined Scottish Universities | |
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Former university constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
Seats | Three |
Created from | Glasgow & Aberdeen Universities Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities |
The Combined Scottish Universities was a three-member university constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1950. It was created by merging the single-member constituencies of Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities and Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities.
The constituency was not a physical area but was rather elected by the graduates of the Scottish Universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
The constituency returned three Members of Parliament to Westminster, elected by Single Transferable Vote. The by-elections used the first past the post voting system.
This University constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 and abolished in 1950 by the Representation of the People Act 1948.
Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | 3rd Member | 3rd Party | |||
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1918 | Sir William Cheyne | Coalition Conservative | Dugald McCoig Cowan | Coalition Liberal | Sir Henry Craik | Coalition Conservative | |||
1922 | Sir George Berry | Unionist | Liberal | Unionist | |||||
Apr 1927 | John Buchan | Unionist | |||||||
1931 | Noel Skelton | Unionist | |||||||
Mar 1934 | George Alexander Morrison | Liberal | |||||||
Jun 1935 | National Liberal | Sir John Kerr | Unionist | ||||||
Jan 1936 | Ramsay MacDonald | National Labour | |||||||
Feb 1938 | Sir John Anderson | National | |||||||
Apr 1945 | Sir John Boyd-Orr | Independent | |||||||
Nov 1946 | Walter Elliot | Unionist | |||||||
1950 | University constituencies abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | ![]() | 3,719 | 28.7 | ||
Liberal | ![]() | 3,499 | 27.0 | ||
Unionist | ![]() | 3,286 | 25.4 | ||
Labour | Peter Macdonald | 1,581 | 12.2 | ||
Independent | William Robert Smith | 850 | 6.6 | ||
Majority | 1,705 | 13.2 | |||
Turnout | 12,935 | ||||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
Unionist win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | George Andreas Berry | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Dugald Cowan | Unopposed | |||
Unionist | Henry Craik | Unopposed | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | George Andreas Berry | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Dugald Cowan | Unopposed | |||
Unionist | Henry Craik | Unopposed | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Henry Craik | 7,188 | 40.8 | N/A | |
Liberal | Dugald Cowan | 5,011 | 28.4 | N/A | |
Unionist | George Andreas Berry | 3,781 | 21.5 | N/A | |
Labour | John Martin Munro | 1,639 | 9.3 | New | |
Majority | 2,177 | 12.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 17,619 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | John Buchan | 16,963 | 87.7 | +66.2 | |
Labour | Hugh Guthrie | 2,378 | 12.3 | +3.0 | |
Majority | 14,585 | 75.4 | +63.2 | ||
Turnout | 19,341 | 55.1 | 0.0 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
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1 | 2 | ||||
Unionist | John Buchan | 39.7 | 9,959 | ||
Liberal | Dugald Cowan | 26.7 | 6,698 | ||
Unionist | George Berry | 22.9 | 5,755 | 9,262 | |
Labour | James Kerr (Scottish doctor) | 10.7 | 2,691 | 2,867 | |
Electorate: 43,192 Valid: 25,103 Quota: 6,276 Turnout: 25,103 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | John Buchan | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Dugald Cowan | Unopposed | |||
Unionist | Noel Skelton | Unopposed | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | George Morrison | 18,070 | 79.2 | N/A | |
Labour | Robert Gibson | 4,750 | 20.8 | New | |
Majority | 13,320 | 58.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 22,820 | 44.3 | N/A | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | John Graham Kerr | 20,507 | 82.7 | N/A | |
Labour | Naomi Mitchison | 4,293 | 17.3 | −3.5 | |
Majority | 16,214 | 65.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 24,800 | 48.1 | N/A | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | John Graham Kerr | 8,252 | 30.4 | N/A | |
National Liberal | George Morrison | 7,529 | 27.7 | N/A | |
Unionist | Noel Skelton [5] | 7,479 | 27.6 | N/A | |
SNP | Andrew Dewar Gibb | 3,865 | 14.2 | New | |
Majority | 723 | 13.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 27,125 | N/A | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Labour | Ramsay MacDonald | 16,393 | 56.5 | New | |
SNP | Andrew Dewar Gibb | 9,034 | 31.1 | +16.9 | |
Labour | David Cleghorn Thomson | 3,597 | 12.4 | New | |
Majority | 7,359 | 37.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 29,024 | 54.8 | +3.6 | ||
National Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
National | John Anderson | 14,042 | 48.8 | −7.7 | |
Independent | Frances H. Melville | 5,618 | 19.5 | New | |
SNP | Andrew Dewar Gibb | 5,246 | 18.2 | −12.9 | |
Independent Progressive | Peter Chalmers Mitchell | 3,868 | 13.5 | New | |
Majority | 8,424 | 29.3 | +3.9 | ||
Turnout | 28,774 | 52.1 | −2.7 | ||
National hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | John Boyd-Orr | 20,197 | 71.2 | N/A | |
National Liberal | R.M. Munro | 8,177 | 28.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,020 | 43.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 28,374 | 44.6 | −7.5 | ||
Registered electors | 63,581 | ||||
Independent gain from National Liberal | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | ![]() | 16,011 | 48.8 | New | |
Independent | ![]() | 10,685 | 32.6 | New | |
Labour | Halliday Sutherland | 2,860 | 8.7 | N/A | |
Liberal | Ralph Somerville Weir | 1,872 | 5.7 | N/A | |
Unionist | ![]() | 1,361 | 4.2 | −53.8 | |
Majority | 7,825 | 23.9 | |||
Turnout | 32,789 | 51.6 | +3.5 | ||
National hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Independent hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Walter Elliot | 22,152 | 68.2 | +64.0 | |
Labour | C. E. M. Joad | 3,731 | 11.5 | +2.8 | |
Liberal | John Bannerman | 2,593 | 8.0 | +2.3 | |
Independent | J. G. Jameson | 2,080 | 6.4 | New | |
National Liberal | Robert Scott Stevenson | 1,938 | 5.9 | New | |
Majority | 18,421 | 56.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 32,494 | 50.7 | −0.9 | ||
Unionist gain from Independent | Swing | N/A | |||
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