Paisley (UK Parliament constituency)

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Paisley Burgh constituency
Created:	1832
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons

Paisley was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1983, when it was divided into Paisley North and Paisley South. These were in turn amalgamated into Paisley and Renfrewshire South and Paisley and Renfrewshire North in 2005.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covered the burgh of Paisley.

[edit] Members of Parliament

1832 – 1834: Sir John Maxwell
1834 – 1835: Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford
1835 – 1836: Alexander Graham Speirs
1836 – 1857: Archibald Hastie
1857 – 1874: Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing
1874 – 1884: William Holms
1884 – 1885: Stewart Clark
1885 – 1891: William Boyle Barbour
1891 – 1906: Sir William Dunn
1906 – 1920: Sir John Mills McCallum, Liberal
1920 – 1924: H. H. Asquith, Liberal
1924 – 1929: Edward Rosslyn Mitchell, Labour
1929 – 1931: James Welsh, Labour
1931 – 1945: Joseph Maclay, Liberal
1945 – 1947: Viscount Corvedale, Labour
1948 – 1961: Douglas Johnston, Labour
1961 – 1979: John Robertson, Labour (1961-76), Scottish Labour Party (1976-79)
1979 – 1983: Allen Adams, Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 1935: Paisley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hon Joseph Paton Maclay	22,466
	Labour	Oliver Baldwin	22,077

General Election 1931: Paisley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hon Joseph Paton Maclay	26,187
	Labour	James Welsh	16,183

General Election 1906: Paisley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Mills MacCallum	5,664	52.7
	Conservative	J.A.D. McKean	2,594	24.2
	Labour	Robert Smillie	2,482	23.1

General Election 1886: Paisley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Boyle Barbour	3,057
	Liberal Unionist	James Parker Smith	2,491

General Election 1885: Paisley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Boyle Barbour	3,392
	Conservative	Robert Mure McKerrell	2,523

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[edit] See also

v • d • e Westminster constituencies of Scotland

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