Falkirk Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)
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Falkirk Burghs | |
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Former District of Burghs constituency for the House of Commons |
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Major settlements | Falkirk, Airdrie, Hamilton, Lanark and Linlithgow |
1832–1918 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Stirling & Falkirk Burghs, Hamilton, Lanark and Linlithgowshire |
Falkirk Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918. The constituency comprised the burghs of Falkirk, Airdrie, Hamilton, Lanark and Linlithgow, lying in Stirlingshire, Lanarkshire and Linlithgowshire.
In 1918, Falkirk became part of Stirling and Falkirk Burghs, Hamilton and Lanark formed the core of new Hamilton and Lanark constituencies, and Linlithgow was represented as part of Linlithgowshire.
Contents
Member of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 1860s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | James Merry | 1,724 | |||
Liberal | Rt. Hon. Edward Horsman | 16 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John Ramsay | 3,104 | 50.6 | ||
Conservative | Samuel Dick Mason | 2,204 | 35.9 | ||
Independent Liberal | James Galloway Weir | 814 | 13.3 | ||
Independent Liberal | John Roskill | 14 | 0.2 | ||
Majority | 900 | 14.7 | |||
Turnout | 85.9 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | William Pirrie Sinclair | 2,713 | 50.2 | ||
Liberal | Harry Smith | 2,693 | 49.8 | ||
Majority | 19 | 0.4 | |||
Turnout | 75.7 | ||||
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Harry Smith | 3,816 | 54.6 | +4.8 | |
Liberal Unionist | William Pirrie Sinclair | 3,177 | 45.4 | -4.8 | |
Majority | 639 | 9.2 | +9.6 | ||
Turnout | 83.1 | ||||
Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist | Swing | +4.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | John Wilson | 4,075 | 51.6 | +6.2 | |
Liberal | Harry Smith | 3,822 | 48.4 | -6.2 | |
Majority | 253 | 3.2 | |||
Turnout | 84.3 | +1.2 | |||
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +6.2 |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Unionist | John Wilson | 4,222 | 51.2 | -0.4 | |
Liberal | John Archibald Murray Macdonald | 4,022 | 48.8 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 200 | 2.4 | -0.8 | ||
Turnout | 79.4 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | -0.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John Archibald Murray Macdonald | 5,158 | 51.0 | +2.2 | |
Conservative | Henry Shanks Keith | 3,176 | 31.5 | -9.7 | |
Scottish Workers | David Gilmour | 1,763 | 17.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,982 | 19.5 | |||
Turnout | 83.7 | +4.3 | |||
Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist | Swing |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John Archibald Murray Macdonald | 6,524 | 59.9 | +8.9 | |
Conservative | Henry Shanks Keith | 4,375 | 40.1 | +8.6 | |
Majority | 2,149 | 19.8 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 84.6 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +0.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | John Archibald Murray Macdonald | 6,276 | |||
Conservative | Daniel Henderson Lusk Young | 4,245 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
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 the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: John Archibald Murray Macdonald
- Unionist: Sir James Robertson Wilson
- British Socialist Party:
Notes and references
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "F" [self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Note: Craig does not distinguish between Whigs, Radicals, and Liberals, labellling them all as "Liberal"
- ↑ Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1870
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1916
Categories:
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with one unnamed parameter
- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1832
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1918
- Politics of Falkirk (council area)