Coatbridge (UK Parliament constituency)
Coatbridge was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) from 1918 to 1950, elected by the first past the post voting system.
Coatbridge | |
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Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Lanarkshire |
1918–1950 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Coatbridge & Airdrie |
Created from | North East Lanarkshire |
It was formed by the division of Lanarkshire. The name was changed in 1950 to Coatbridge and Airdrie. A later constituency, Coatbridge and Chryston, existed between 1997 and 2005, until it was redrawn as Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill.
Boundaries
The Representation of the People Act 1918 provided that the constituency was to consist of "the burghs of Coatbridge and Airdrie".[1]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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1918 | Arthur Louis Hamilton Buchanan | Coalition Conservative | |
1922 | James C. Welsh | Labour | |
1931 | William Templeton | Conservative | |
1935 | James Barr | Labour | |
1945 | Jean Mann | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished: see Coatbridge & Airdrie |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Arthur Buchanan | 13,188 | 64.51 | |
Labour | Owen Coyle | 7,254 | 35.49 | ||
Majority | 5,934 | 29.02 | |||
Turnout | 20,442 | 64.78 | |||
Registered electors | 31,557 | ||||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | James C. Welsh | 12,038 | 49.01 | +13.52 | |
Unionist | Arthur Buchanan | 9,724 | 39.59 | −24.92 | |
Liberal | Daniel Blades | 2,802 | 11.41 | New | |
Majority | 2,314 | 9.42 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 24,564 | 80.14 | +15.36 | ||
Registered electors | 30,650 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +19.22 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James C. Welsh | 12,292 | 55.48 | +6.47 | |
Unionist | J.B. Young | 9,865 | 44.52 | +4.93 | |
Majority | 2,427 | 10.96 | +1.54 | ||
Turnout | 22,157 | 71.72 | −8.42 | ||
Registered electors | 30,892 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.77 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | James C. Welsh | 12,782 | 50.11 | −5.37 | |
Unionist | Thomas Moore | 12,725 | 49.89 | +5.37 | |
Majority | 57 | 0.22 | −10.74 | ||
Turnout | 25,507 | 84.03 | +12.31 | ||
Registered electors | 30,356 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −5.37 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | James C. Welsh | 16,879 | 54.98 | +4.87 | |
Unionist | Alec Douglas-Home | 9,210 | 30.00 | −19.89 | |
Liberal | Robert Irvine | 4,610 | 15.02 | New | |
Majority | 7,669 | 24.98 | +24.76 | ||
Turnout | 30,699 | 82.31 | −1.72 | ||
Registered electors | 37,299 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +12.38 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | William Templeton | 16,223 | 51.31 | +21.31 | |
Labour | James C. Welsh | 14,722 | 46.56 | −8.42 | |
New Party | William Weir Gilmour | 674 | 2.13 | New | |
Majority | 1,501 | 4.75 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 31,619 | 83.40 | +1.09 | ||
Registered electors | 37,911 | ||||
Unionist gain from Labour | Swing | +14.87 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Barr | 17,535 | 57.20 | +10.64 | |
Unionist | T.D.K. Murray | 13,121 | 42.80 | −8.51 | |
Majority | 4,414 | 14.40 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 30,656 | 78.55 | −4.85 | ||
Registered electors | 39,029 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +9.58 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jean Mann | 18,619 | 61.12 | +3.92 | |
Unionist | Ronald Russell | 11,842 | 38.88 | −3.92 | |
Majority | 6,777 | 22.24 | +7.84 | ||
Turnout | 30,461 | 75.96 | −2.59 | ||
Registered electors | 40,104 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.92 |
References
- Representation of the People Act 1918, Schedule 9.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 5)
- Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
- Craig, F.W.S., ed. (1969). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949. Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. p. 631. ISBN 0-900178-01-9.
- The Times, 17 November 1922
- The Times, 8 December 1923
- Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
- The Times, 1 June 1929
- Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
- Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
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