Midlothian and Peebles Northern (UK Parliament constituency)
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Midlothian and Peebles Northern | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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1918–1950 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Edinburgh Pentlands |
Created from | Midlothian |
Midlothian and Peebles Northern was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1950. Along with Peebles and Southern, it was formed by dividing the old Midlothian constituency.
Contents
Boundaries
From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The Calder and Suburban County Districts, the burgh of Dalkeith, and that part of the Lasswade County District which is included in the extra-burghal portions of the parishes of Dalkeith and Inveresk."
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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1918 | Sir John Augustus Hope | Unionist | |
1922 | George Aitken Clark Hutchison | Unionist | |
1923 | Andrew Bathgate Clarke | Labour | |
1924 | Sir George Aitken Clark Hutchison | Unionist | |
1929 by-election | Andrew Bathgate Clarke | Labour | |
1929 | John Colville | Unionist | |
1943 by-election | Sir David King Murray | Unionist | |
1945 | Lord John Hope | Conservative | |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Sir John Augustus Hope | 7,710 | |||
Independent | J.B. Cadzow | 4,198 |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | George Aitken Clark Hutchison | 7,416 | 40.9 | ||
Labour | Andrew Bathgate Clarke | 6,942 | 38.3 | n/a | |
Liberal | Edward R. McNab | 3,770 | 20.8 | n/a | |
Majority | 474 | 2.6 | |||
Turnout | 18,128 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Andrew Bathgate Clarke | 8,583 | |||
Unionist | George Aitken Clark Hutchison | 6,738 | |||
Liberal | Charles de Bois Murray | 3,583 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | George Aitken Clark Hutchison | 11,320 | |||
Labour | Andrew Bathgate Clarke | 9,173 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Andrew Bathgate Clarke | 7,917 | 42.0 | +2.8 | |
Unionist | David John Colville | 6,965 | 36.9 | −18.3 | |
Liberal | David Edwin Keir | 3,130 | 16.6 | N/A | |
National (Scotland) | James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence | 842 | 4.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 952 | 5.1 | |||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | David John Colville | 11,219 | 39.1 | ||
Labour | Andrew Bathgate Clarke | 10,779 | 37.5 | ||
Liberal | David Edwin Keir | 6,726 | 23.4 | ||
Majority | 440 | 1.6 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | David John Colville | 22,211 | |||
Labour | Andrew Bathgate Clarke | 8,501 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | David John Colville | 23,711 | |||
Labour | James Lean | 13,970 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Sir Thomas David King Murray | 11,620 | 51.9 | −11.0 | |
Common Wealth | Thomas Henry Wintringham | 10,751 | 48.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 869 | 3.8 | −22.0 | ||
Turnout | 22,371 | 34.6 | −39.7 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | −11.0 |
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | John Adrian Louis Hope | 24,834 | 47.95 | ||
Labour | James Lean | 23,657 | 45.68 | ||
Common Wealth | Kitty Wintringham | 3,299 | 6.37 | ||
Majority | 1,177 | 2.27 | |||
Turnout | 51,790 | 70.33 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing |
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
- ↑ The Times, 17 November 1922
- ↑ The Times, 8 December 1923
- ↑ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
- ↑ The Times, 31 January 1929
- ↑ The Times, 1 June 1929
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1944
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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