North Ayrshire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Ayrshire |
1868–1918 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Ayrshire |
Replaced by | Bute and Northern Ayrshire and Kilmarnock |
North Ayrshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1918. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.
The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 provided that the new North Ayrshire constituency was to consist of the District of Cunningham, consisting of the parishes of Ardrossan, Dalry, Dreghorn, Fenwick, Irvine, Kilbirnie, Kilmarnock, Kilmaurs, Kilwinning, Largs, Loudoun, Stevenston, Stewarton, West Kilbride and Beith, and the parish of Dunlop so far as situated within the County of Ayr.
Election | Member | Party | |
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1868 | William Finnie | Liberal | |
1874 | Roger Montgomerie | Conservative | |
1880 | Robert Cochran-Patrick | Conservative | |
1885 | Hugh Elliot | Liberal | |
1886 | Liberal Unionist | ||
1892 | Thomas Cochrane | Liberal Unionist | |
1910 | Andrew Anderson | Liberal | |
1911 | Duncan Campbell | Unionist | |
1916 | Aylmer Hunter-Weston | Unionist | |
1918 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Finnie | 1,397 | 51.4 | ||
Conservative | Roger Montgomerie | 1,322 | 48.6 | ||
Majority | 75 | 2.8 | |||
Turnout | 2,719 | 84.5 | |||
Registered electors | 3,219 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Roger Montgomerie | 1,562 | 54.6 | +6.0 | |
Liberal | William Finnie | 1,301 | 45.4 | −6.0 | |
Majority | 261 | 9.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,863 | 84.0 | −0.5 | ||
Registered electors | 3,407 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +6.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Cochran-Patrick | 1,636 | 50.9 | −3.7 | |
Liberal | John Balfour | 1,581 | 49.1 | +3.7 | |
Majority | 55 | 1.8 | −7.4 | ||
Turnout | 3,217 | 88.3 | +4.3 | ||
Registered electors | 3,642 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −3.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Hugh Elliot | 5,700 | 54.6 | +5.5 | |
Conservative | Robert Cochran-Patrick | 4,740 | 45.4 | −5.5 | |
Majority | 960 | 9.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 10,440 | 83.8 | −4.5 | ||
Registered electors | 12,465 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +5.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Hugh Elliot | Unopposed | |||
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Thomas Cochrane | 5,346 | 52.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | William Wedderburn | 4,898 | 47.8 | New | |
Majority | 448 | 4.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 10,244 | 83.5 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 12,261 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Thomas Cochrane | 5,612 | 53.4 | +1.2 | |
Liberal | William Robertson | 4,902 | 46.6 | −1.2 | |
Majority | 710 | 6.8 | +2.4 | ||
Turnout | 10,514 | 81.9 | −1.6 | ||
Registered electors | 12,837 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | 1.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Thomas Cochrane | 5,985 | 55.5 | +2.1 | |
Liberal | A. Williamson | 4,791 | 44.5 | −2.1 | |
Majority | 1,194 | 11.0 | +4.2 | ||
Turnout | 10,776 | 78.9 | −3.0 | ||
Registered electors | 13,657 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | +2.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | Thomas Cochrane | 5,603 | 43.6 | −11.9 | |
Liberal | Andrew Anderson | 4,587 | 35.6 | −8.9 | |
Scottish Workers | James Brown | 2,683 | 20.8 | New | |
Majority | 1,106 | 8.0 | −3.0 | ||
Turnout | 12,873 | 82.5 | +3.6 | ||
Registered electors | 15,597 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | −1.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Andrew Anderson | 6,189 | 44.4 | +8.8 | |
Liberal Unionist | Thomas Cochrane | 5,951 | 42.7 | −0.9 | |
Labour | James Brown | 1,801 | 12.9 | −7.9 | |
Majority | 238 | 1.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 13,941 | 84.7 | +2.2 | ||
Registered electors | 16,453 | ||||
Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist | Swing | +3.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Andrew Anderson | 7,286 | 51.2 | +6.8 | |
Unionist | Duncan Campbell | 6,932 | 48.8 | +6.1 | |
Majority | 354 | 2.4 | +0.7 | ||
Turnout | 14,218 | 85.3 | +0.6 | ||
Registered electors | 16,665 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +0.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Duncan Campbell | 7,318 | 50.9 | +2.1 | |
Liberal | Andrew Anderson | 7,047 | 49.1 | −2.1 | |
Majority | 271 | 1.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 14,365 | 84.9 | −0.4 | ||
Registered electors | 16,926 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +2.1 | |||
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;
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Aylmer Hunter-Weston | 7,149 | 84.6 | +35.7 | |
Peace by Negotiation | Humphrey Chalmers* | 1,300 | 15.4 | New | |
Majority | 5,849 | 69.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,449 | 48.6 | -36.7 | ||
Registered electors | 17,385 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A | |||
*Chalmers was supported by the Union of Democratic Control and contested the 1918 general election as a Labour Party candidate.
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