Moray and Nairn | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1983 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Elginshire & Nairnshire Elgin Burghs |
Replaced by | Moray Inverness, Nairn & Lochaber |
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 of 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.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Sir Archibald Williamson | Coalition Liberal | |
1922 | Thomas Maule Guthrie | Coalition Liberal | |
1922 | National Liberal | ||
1923 | James Stuart | Unionist | |
1959 | Gordon Campbell | Conservative | |
Feb 1974 | Winnie Ewing | SNP | |
1979 | Alex Pollock | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Liberal | Archibald Williamson | Unopposed | ||
Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Liberal | Thomas Guthrie | Unopposed | ||
Liberal hold | |||||
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Liberal | Thomas 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 | ||
Registered electors | 24,691 | ||||
National Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | James Stuart | 8,116 | 53.4 | New | |
Liberal | Thomas Guthrie | 7,089 | 46.6 | −1.6 | |
Majority | 1,027 | 6.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 15,215 | 61.3 | +12.3 | ||
Registered electors | 24,798 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | James Stuart | 9,762 | 61.9 | +8.5 | |
Labour | Skene Mackay | 6,005 | 38.1 | New | |
Majority | 3,757 | 23.8 | +17.0 | ||
Turnout | 15,767 | 61.7 | +0.4 | ||
Registered electors | 25,539 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | James Stuart | 8,896 | 43.7 | −18.2 | |
Labour | Joseph Duncan | 6,566 | 32.3 | −5.8 | |
Liberal | John Tennant | 4,889 | 24.0 | New | |
Majority | 2,330 | 11.4 | -12.4 | ||
Turnout | 20,348 | 68.6 | +6.9 | ||
Registered electors | 29,669 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | −6.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | James Stuart | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | James Stuart | 12,755 | 63.5 | N/A | |
Labour | James Davidson Vassie | 7,347 | 36.5 | New | |
Majority | 5,408 | 27.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 20,102 | N/A | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | James Stuart | 12,809 | 61.58 | ||
Labour | Sinclair Shaw | 7,993 | 38.42 | ||
Majority | 4,816 | 23.16 | |||
Turnout | 20,802 | 62.13 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | James Stuart | 15,478 | 59.85 | ||
Labour | Richard Murray | 10,383 | 40.15 | ||
Majority | 5,095 | 19.70 | |||
Turnout | 25,861 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | James Stuart | 15,881 | 60.23 | ||
Labour | David Hutchinson | 10,487 | 39.77 | ||
Majority | 5,394 | 20.46 | |||
Turnout | 26,368 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | James Stuart | 14,667 | 60.59 | ||
Labour | M Mackay | 9,538 | 39.41 | ||
Majority | 5,129 | 21.18 | |||
Turnout | 24,205 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Gordon Campbell | 13,742 | 52.63 | ||
Labour | M. Mackay | 6,539 | 25.04 | ||
Liberal | Donald C. MacDonald | 5,831 | 22.33 | New | |
Majority | 7,203 | 27.59 | |||
Turnout | 26,112 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Gordon Campbell | 12,741 | 50.86 | ||
Labour | Gordon McIntosh | 6,830 | 27.27 | ||
Liberal | John Macleod | 5,478 | 21.87 | ||
Majority | 5,911 | 23.59 | |||
Turnout | 25,049 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Gordon 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 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Gordon Campbell | 13,994 | 49.4 | +1.3 | |
SNP | Thomas A Howe | 7,885 | 27.8 | New | |
Labour | Peter Talbot | 6,452 | 22.8 | -11.3 | |
Majority | 6,109 | 21.6 | +7.5 | ||
Turnout | 28,331 | 72.0 | +4.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Winnie Ewing | 16,046 | 49.26 | ||
Conservative | Gordon Campbell | 14,229 | 43.68 | ||
Labour | E G Smith | 2,299 | 7.06 | ||
Majority | 1,817 | 5.58 | |||
Turnout | 32,574 | 78.72 | |||
SNP gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Winnie Ewing | 12,667 | 41.2 | -8.1 | |
Conservative | Alexander Pollock | 12,300 | 40.0 | -3.7 | |
Labour | E.G. Smith | 2,985 | 9.7 | +2.6 | |
Liberal | Keith Schellenberg | 2,814 | 9.1 | New | |
Majority | 367 | 1.2 | -4.4 | ||
Turnout | 30,766 | 74.7 | -4.0 | ||
SNP hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alexander Pollock | 14,220 | 40.1 | +0.1 | |
SNP | Winnie Ewing | 13,800 | 38.9 | -2.3 | |
Liberal | Steve Rodan | 4,361 | 12.3 | +3.2 | |
Labour | G E Scobie | 3,104 | 8.7 | -1.0 | |
Majority | 420 | 1.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 35,487 | 77.5 | +2.8 | ||
Conservative gain from SNP | Swing | ||||
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