Glasgow Camlachie (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Camlachie
Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons
Glasgow Camlachie in Glasgow 1918-49
Subdivisions of Scotland	City of Glasgow
1885–1955
Seats	One
Created from	Glasgow
Replaced by	Glasgow Provan and Glasgow Bridgeton

Glasgow Camlachie 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

Glasgow Camlachie in Lanarkshire, 1950-55

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of the second Municipal Ward, and so much of the third Municipal Ward as lies south of a line drawn along the centre of Duke Street. ^[1]

In 1918 the constituency consisted of

That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary on the south-east side of Cumbernauld Road where that road is intersected by the east side of the Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Lines), thence southward along the municipal boundary to a point about 299 yards north-westward from the centre of Carntyne Road, where the municipal boundary intersects that road, thence north-westward to a point on the centre line of the said railway 380 yards south of the centre line of Cumbernauld Road, thence southwestward and southward along the centre line of the said railway to the centre line of London Road, thence westward along the centre line of London Road and Canning Street to the centre line of Abercromby Street, thence north-eastward along the centre line of Abercromby Street to the centre line of Gallowgate, thence westward along the centre line of Gallowgate to the centre line of Sydney Street, thence northward along the centre line of Sydney Street to the centre line of Duke Street, thence eastward along the centre line of Duke Street to the centre line of Ark Lane, thence northward along the centre line of Ark Lane and Firpark Street to the centre line of Alexandra Parade, thence eastward and north-eastward along the centre line of Alexandra Parade, and Cumbernauld Road to the east side of the Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Lines), thence southward to the point of commencement.

The Representation of the People Act 1948 provided that the constituency was to consist of

The following wards (as constituted by the Local Government (Scotland) (Glasgow Wards and Councillors) Order, 1948, S.I., 1948, No. 876) of the county of the city of Glasgow, namely, Dennistoun, Provan and that part of Mile-End ward which lies to the west of a line commencing at a point on the northern boundary of the ward immediately opposite the centre line of Millerston Street thence southward to and along the centre line of Millerston Street to the centre line of Gallowgate; thence eastward along the centre line of Gallowgate to a point opposite the centre line of Fielden Street; thence southward along the centre line of Fielden Street to the termination of the line on the southern boundary of the Mile-End ward immediately opposite the centre of Fielden Street.

The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Glasgow Bridgeton, Glasgow Provan and Glasgow Shettleston) Order, 1955 ^[2] provided for most of the area of the Camlachie constituency to be transferred to the new Glasgow Provan constituency, except for part of the Mile-End ward which was transferred to Glasgow Bridgeton.

Members of Parliament

Year		Member [3]	Party
	1885	Hugh Watt	Liberal
	1892	Alexander Cross	Liberal Unionist
	1908		Liberal
	1910	Halford Mackinder	Liberal Unionist
	1912		Unionist
	1922	Campbell Stephen	ILP
	1931	James Stevenson	Unionist
	1935	Campbell Stephen	ILP
	1947		Labour
	1948	Charles McFarlane	Unionist
	1950	William Reid	Labour
	1955	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1885: Glasgow Camlachie ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hugh Watt	4,047	56.9
	Conservative	Thomas Arnold Reid	2,883	40.6
	Independent Liberal	James Martin	177	2.5
Majority			1,164	16.3
Turnout			7,107	77.1
Registered electors			9,220
	Liberal win (new seat)

Burleigh

General election 1886: Glasgow Camlachie ^{[4] [5] [7]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hugh Watt	3,467	51.2	-5.7
	Liberal Unionist	Bennet Burleigh	3,308	48.8	+8.2
Majority			159	2.4	-13.9
Turnout			6,775	73.5	-3.6
Registered electors			9,220
	Liberal hold		Swing	-7.0

Elections in the 1890s

Graham

General election 1892: Glasgow Camlachie ^{[4] [5] [8]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Alexander Cross	3,455	45.3	-3.5
	Liberal	John McCulloch	3,084	40.5	-10.7
	Scottish Labour	Robert Cunninghame-Graham	906	11.9	New
	Independent Liberal	Hugh Watt	179	2.3	New
Majority			371	4.8	N/A
Turnout			7,624	78.5	+5.0
Registered electors			9,716
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+3.6

• The local Liberal association replaced Watt with Graham, due to the former's opposition to Irish Home Rule, Scottish church disestablishment and the temperance movement. They then replaced Graham with McCulloch, due to the former's attacks on Liberal policy and leadership.

Chisholm

General election 1895: Glasgow Camlachie ^{[4] [5] [9]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Alexander Cross	3,198	50.0	+4.7
	Liberal	Samuel Chisholm	2,497	39.1	-1.4
	Ind. Labour Party	Robert Smillie	696	10.9	−1.0
Majority			701	10.9	+6.1
Turnout			6,391	63.6	-14.9
Registered electors			10,046
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	+3.0

Elections in the 1900s

Fletcher

General election 1900: Glasgow Camlachie ^{[4] [5] [9]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Alexander Cross	4,345	58.3	+8.3
	Scottish Workers	Alfred Fletcher	3,107	41.7	New
Majority			1,238	16.6	+5.7
Turnout			7,452	71.1	+7.5
Registered electors			10,479
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

Burgess

General election 1906: Glasgow Camlachie ^{[4] [5] [10]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Alexander Cross	3,119	36.5	−21.8
	Liberal	William Pringle	2,871	33.5	New
	Labour Repr. Cmte.	Joseph Burgess	2,568	30.0	New
Majority			248	3.0	−13.6
Turnout			8,558	84.1	+13.0
Registered electors			10,174
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1910s

Mackinder

General election January 1910: Glasgow Camlachie ^{[4] [11]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Halford Mackinder	3,227	38.1	+1.6
	Liberal	Alexander Cross	2,793	33.0	New
	Labour	James Kessack	2,443	28.9	-1.1
Majority			434	5.1	+2.1
Turnout			8,463	87.6	+3.5
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	+1.0

Hogge

General election December 1910: Glasgow Camlachie ^{[4] [11]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Halford Mackinder	3,479	40.9	+2.8
	Liberal	James Myles Hogge	3,453	40.6	+7.6
	Labour	James Kessack	1,539	18.1	-10.8
	Women's Suffrage	William Julius Mirrlees	35	0.4	New
Majority			26	0.3	-4.8
Turnout			8,506	86.6	-1.0
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	-2.4

Mirrlees was the candidate of the Scottish Federation of Women's Suffrage Societies. His candidacy had the effect of ensuring the election of Mackinder, who opposed women's suffrage at the expense of Hogge, who supported it.

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Unionist: Halford Mackinder
• Liberal: Robert Shanks ^[12]
• Labour: James Alston

General election 1918: Glasgow Camlachie ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Unionist	Halford Mackinder	13,645	62.9	+22.0
	Labour	Hugh Guthrie	7,192	33.1	+15.0
	Liberal	Daniel Browning	860	4.0	−36.6
Majority			6,453	29.8	+29.5
Turnout			21,697	58.1	−28.5
Registered electors			37,319
	Unionist hold		Swing	+3.5
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Glasgow Camlachie ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Campbell Stephen	15,181	53.2	+20.1
	Unionist	Halford Mackinder	11,439	40.2	−22.7
	Liberal	Walter Crawford Smith	1,896	6.6	+2.6
Majority			3,742	13.0	N/A
Turnout			28,516	81.0	+22.9
Registered electors			35,249
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+21.4

General election 1923: Glasgow Camlachie ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Campbell Stephen	14,143	56.2	+3.0
	Unionist	Henry Keith	11,027	43.8	+3.6
Majority			3,116	12.4	−0.6
Turnout			25,170	71.8	−9.2
Registered electors			35,046
	Labour hold		Swing	−0.3

General election 1924: Glasgow Camlachie ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Campbell Stephen	14,588	50.4	−5.8
	Unionist	Peter Denniston Ridge-Beedle	14,373	49.6	+5.8
Majority			215	0.8	−11.6
Turnout			28,961	80.6	+8.8
Registered electors			35,918
	Labour hold		Swing	−5.8

General election 1929: Glasgow Camlachie ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Campbell Stephen	17,946	53.1	+2.7
	Unionist	James Stevenson	14,161	42.0	−7.6
	National (Scotland)	John MacCormick	1,646	4.9	New
Majority			3,785	11.1	+10.3
Turnout			33,752	78.6	−2.0
Registered electors			42,960
	Labour hold		Swing	+5.2

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Glasgow Camlachie ^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	James Stevenson	18,461	54.71
	Ind. Labour Party	Campbell Stephen	15,282	45.29
Majority			3,179	9.42
Turnout			33,743	78.22
	Unionist gain from Ind. Labour Party		Swing

General election 1935: Glasgow Camlachie ^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Labour Party	Campbell Stephen	15,070	47.1	+1.8
	Unionist	James Stevenson	14,186	44.3	-10.4
	Labour	William Reid	2,732	8.6	New
Majority			884	2.8	N/A
Turnout			31,988
	Ind. Labour Party gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General election 1945: Glasgow Camlachie

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Labour Party	Campbell Stephen	15,558	57.7	+10.6
	Unionist	Charles McFarlane	11,399	42.3	-2.0
Majority			4,159	15.4	+12.6
Turnout			26,957	65.1
	Ind. Labour Party hold		Swing

1948 Glasgow Camlachie by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Charles McFarlane	11,085	43.7	+1.4
	Labour	John M. Inglis	10,690	42.1	New
	Ind. Labour Party	Annie Maxton	1,622	6.4	-51.3
	SNP	Robert Blair Wilkie	1,320	5.2	New
	United Socialist Movement	Guy Aldred	345	1.4	New
	Liberal	Edward Rogers Goodfellow	312	1.2	New
Majority			395	1.6	N/A
Turnout			25,374	56.8	-8.3
	Unionist gain from Ind. Labour Party		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Glasgow Camlachie

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Reid	21,013	51.5	N/A
	Unionist	Charles McFarlane	19,766	48.5	+6.2
Majority			1,247	3.1	N/A
Turnout			40,779	80.7	+15.6
	Labour gain from Ind. Labour Party		Swing	N/A

General election 1951: Glasgow Camlachie

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Reid	20,994	51.3	-0.2
	Unionist	Charles McFarlane	19,969	48.8	+0.3
Majority			1,025	2.5	-0.6
Turnout			40,963	82.4	+1.7
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule
2. Statutory Instrument 1955/23
3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 2)
4. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
5. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
6. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
7. Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
8. The House of Commons, February 1901, Macmillan & Co.
9. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
10. Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
11. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
12. Perthshire Advertiser 29 Apr 1914
13. Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
14. Liberal Yearbook, 1939
15. The Times, 8 December 1923
16. Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
17. British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
18. Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
19. Whitaker's Almanack, 1939