Partick (UK Parliament constituency)

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Partick
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland Lanarkshire
18851918
SeatsOne
Created from North Lanarkshire
Replaced by Glasgow Partick

Partick was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1918.

Contents

A division of the county of Lanarkshire, its territory was incorporated into the city of Glasgow in the 1890s. For the 1918 general election, it was largely replaced by the new Glasgow Partick constituency, a division of the city of Glasgow.

Boundaries

From 1885 the constituency consisted of "So much of the Parish of Govan as lies north of the Clyde and beyond the present boundary of the municipal burgh of Glasgow, and so much of the parish of Barony as lies to the west of the present main line of railway between Glasgow and Edinburgh of the North British Railway Company (being the old Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) and beyond the present boundary of the municipal burgh of Glasgow." [1]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [2] Party
1885 Alexander Craig Sellar Liberal
1886 Liberal Unionist
1890 James Parker Smith Liberal Unionist
1906 Sir Robert Balfour Liberal
1906 Constituency abolished. See Glasgow Partick

Elections

Decades:

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1885: Partick [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Alexander Craig Sellar 3,726 51.9
Conservative Henry Lennox 3,38547.1
Scottish Land Restoration John Murdoch 741.0
Majority 3414.8
Turnout 7,18580.3
Registered electors 8,945
Liberal win (new seat)
General election 1886: Partick [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Unionist Alexander Craig Sellar 3,745 56.0 +8.9
Liberal Robert Allan McLean2,94444.0−7.9
Majority 80112.0N/A
Turnout 6,68974.8−5.5
Registered electors 8,945
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal Swing +8.4

Elections in the 1890s

1890 Partick by-election [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Unionist James Parker Smith 4,148 51.4 4.6
Liberal Charles Tennant 3,92948.6+4.6
Majority 2192.89.2
Turnout 8,07785.7+10.9
Registered electors 9,429
Liberal Unionist hold Swing 4.6
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Tennant
General election 1892: Partick [5] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Unionist James Parker Smith 5,005 53.9 2.1
Liberal Edward Tennant 4,27846.1+2.1
Majority 7277.84.2
Turnout 9,28381.1+6.3
Registered electors 11,453
Liberal Unionist hold Swing 2.1
General election 1895: Partick [6] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Unionist James Parker Smith 5,551 56.1 +2.2
Liberal William Lyon Mackenzie (Scottish advocate)4,34443.9−2.2
Majority 1,20712.2+4.4
Turnout 9,89575.2−5.9
Registered electors 13,152
Liberal Unionist hold Swing +2.2

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Partick [6] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Unionist James Parker Smith 6,950 59.6 +3.5
Liberal Robert Lambie4,71740.4−3.5
Majority 2,23319.2+7.0
Turnout 11,65773.3−1.9
Registered electors 15,921
Liberal Unionist hold Swing +3.5
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Balfour
General election 1906: Partick [7] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Robert Balfour 9,477 54.3 +13.9
Liberal Unionist James Parker Smith 7,96045.7−13.9
Majority 1,5178.6N/A
Turnout 17,43781.4+8.1
Registered electors 21,411
Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist Swing +13.9

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Partick [8] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Robert Balfour 10,093 51.5 −2.8
Liberal Unionist Archibald White Maconochie 9,52248.5+2.8
Majority 5713.0−5.6
Turnout 19,61584.2+2.8
Liberal hold Swing -2.8
General election December 1910: Partick [8] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Robert Balfour 10,535 50.8 −0.7
Liberal Unionist Archibald White Maconochie 10,19049.2+0.7
Majority 3451.6−1.4
Turnout 20,71584.20.0
Liberal hold Swing -0.7

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;

References

  1. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885
  2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
  3. 1 2 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 550. ISBN   0-900178-27-2.
  5. Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
  6. 1 2 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
  7. Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
  8. 1 2 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
  9. Daily Record 5 Mar 1914