Glasgow Partick (UK Parliament constituency)

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Glasgow Partick Burgh constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons

Glasgow Partick was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1950.

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

[edit] Boundaries

In 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary at the centre line of the North British Railway (Stobcross Branch), thence south-eastward along the centre line of the said North British Railway to the centre line of the River Kelvin, thence south-westward along the centre line of the River Kelvin to the centre line of the River Clyde, thence westward along the centre line of the River Clyde, to the municipal boundary, thence northward and north-eastward along the municipal boundary to the point of commencement."

[edit] Members of Parliament

	Member	Party
1885	Alexander Craig Sellar	Liberal Unionist
1890	James Parker Smith	Liberal Unionist
1906	Sir Robert Balfour	Liberal
1922	Sir Robert John Collie
1923	Andrew Young	Co-operative
1924	George Humphrey Maurice Broun-Lindsay	Conservative
1929	Adam McKinlay	Labour
1931	Charles Glen MacAndrew, later Baron MacAndrew	Conservative
1935	Sir Arthur Stewart Leslie Young	Conservative

[edit] Election results

General Election 1935: Glasgow Partick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Maj Charles MacAndrew	18,904
	Labour	Adam McKinlay	11,252

General Election 1931: Glasgow Partick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Young	15,616
	Labour	Adam McKinlay	13,316

General Election 1906: Partick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Balfour	9,477	54.3
	Conservative	Rt Hon James Parker Smith	7,960	45.7

General Election 1886: Partick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Alexander Craig Sellar	3,745
	Liberal	Robert Allan McLean	2,944

General Election 1885: Partick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alexander Craig Sellar	3,726
	Conservative	Rt Hon Lord Henry Charles Gordon-Lennox	3,385
	Liberal	John Murdoch	74

[edit] See also

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