Combined Scottish Universities (UK Parliament constituency)

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Combined Scottish Universities University constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	Three

The Combined Scottish Universities was a university constituency in the United Kingdom Parliament from 1918 until 1950. It was formed by merging the Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities and Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities constituencies .

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1910s 3.2 Elections in the 1920s 3.3 Elections in the 1930s 3.4 Elections in the 1940s 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency was not a physical area but was rather elected by the graduates of the Scottish Universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

The constituency returned three Members of Parliament to Westminster, elected by Single Transferable Vote. The by-elections used the first past the post voting system.

This is a list of people who were elected to represent the Scottish Universities in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. This University constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 and abolished in 1950 by the Representation of the People Act 1948.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party	3rd Member		3rd Party
1918		Sir William Watson Cheyne	Unionist		Dugald McCoig Cowan	Coalition Liberal		Sir Henry Craik	Unionist
1922		Sir George Andreas Berry	Unionist			Liberal
Apr 1927								John Buchan	Unionist
1931		Archibald Noel Skelton	Unionist
Mar 1934					George Alexander Morrison	Liberal
Jun 1935						National Liberal		Sir John Graham Kerr	Unionist
Jan 1936		Ramsay Macdonald	National Labour
Feb 1938		Sir John Anderson	National
Apr 1945					Sir John Boyd-Orr	Independent
Nov 1946					Walter Elliot Elliot	Unionist
1950	University constituencies abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 1910s

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[edit] Elections in the 1920s

General Election, November 1922: Combined Scottish Universities
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir George Andreas Berry	unopposed
	Liberal	Dugald McCoig Cowan	unopposed
	Unionist	Sir Henry Craik	unopposed

General Election, December 1923: Combined Scottish Universities
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir George Andreas Berry	unopposed
	Liberal	Dugald McCoig Cowan	unopposed
	Unionist	Sir Henry Craik	unopposed

Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 26-29 April 1927
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Buchan	16,963	87.7
	Labour	Hugh B. Guthrie	2,378	12.3
Majority			14,585	75.4
Turnout			19,341	55.1	+0.0
	Unionist hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

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General Election, October 1931: Combined Scottish Universities
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Buchan	unopposed
	Liberal	Dugald McCoig Cowan	unopposed
	Unionist	Archibald Noel Skelton	unopposed

Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 7-12 March 1934
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Alexander Morrison	18,070	79.2
	Labour	Robert Gibson	4,750	20.8
Majority			13,320	58.4
Turnout				44.3
	Liberal hold		Swing

Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 17-22 June 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Prof. John Graham Kerr	20,507	82.7	N/A
	Labour	Naomi Mitchison	4,293	17.3	N/A
Majority			16,214	65.4	N/A
Turnout			24,800	48.1	N/A
	Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 27–31 January 1936
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Labour	Ramsay MacDonald	16,393	56.5	N/A
	Scottish National Party	Andrew Dewar Gibb	9,034	31.1	+16.9
	Labour	David Cleghorn Thompson	3,597	12.4	N/A
Majority			7,359	37.4
Turnout				54.8	+3.6
	National Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	N/A

Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 21-25 February 1938
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Independent	Sir John Anderson	14,042	48.8	−7.7
	Independent	Frances H. Melville	5,618	19.5	N/A
	Scottish National Party	Andrew Dewar Gibb	5,246	18.2	−12.9
	Independent	Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell	3,868	13.5	N/A
Majority			8,424	29.3	+3.9
Turnout				52.1	−2.7
	National hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

General Election, 5 July 1945: Combined Scottish Universities
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	John Anderson	16,011	48.8
	Independent	John Boyd Orr	10,685	32.6
	Labour	H. G. Sutherland	2,860	8.7
	Liberal	R. S. Weir	1,872	5.7
	Unionist	John Graham Kerr	1,361	4.2
Turnout			32,789	51.6
	National hold		Swing	N/A
	Independent hold		Swing	N/A
	Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 22-27 November 1946
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Walter Elliot	22,152	68.2	+64.0
	Labour	C. E. M. Joad	3,731	11.5	+2.8
	Liberal	J. M. Bannerman	2,593	8.0	+2.3
	Independent	J. G. Jameson	2,080	6.4	N/A
	National Liberal	Dr R. S. Stevenson	1,938	5.9	N/A
Majority			18,421	56.7
Turnout			32,494	50.7	−0.9
	Unionist gain from National		Swing	N/A

[edit] See also

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[edit] References

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• Historical list of MPs: S (part 2)