Combined Scottish Universities (UK Parliament constituency)
The Combined Scottish Universities was a three-member university constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1950. It was created by merging the single-member constituencies of Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities and Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities.
Combined Scottish Universities | |
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Former University constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
Number of members | Three |
Created from | Glasgow & Aberdeen Universities Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities |
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 University constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 and abolished in 1950 by the Representation of the People Act 1948.
Members of Parliament
Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | 3rd Member | 3rd Party | |||
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1918 | Sir William Cheyne | Coalition Conservative | Dugald McCoig Cowan | Coalition Liberal | Sir Henry Craik | Coalition Conservative | |||
1922 | Sir George Berry | Unionist | Liberal | Unionist | |||||
Apr 1927 | John Buchan | Unionist | |||||||
1931 | Noel Skelton | Unionist | |||||||
Mar 1934 | George Alexander Morrison | Liberal | |||||||
Jun 1935 | National Liberal | Sir John 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 | Unionist | |||||||
1950 | University constituencies abolished |
Election results
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Watson Cheyne | 3,719 | 28.7 | N/A | |
Liberal | Dugald Cowan | 3,499 | 27.0 | N/A | |
Unionist | Henry Craik | 3,286 | 25.4 | N/A | |
Labour | Peter Macdonald | 1,581 | 12.2 | N/A | |
Independent | William Robert Smith | 850 | 6.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,705 | 13.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 12,935 |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | George Andreas Berry | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Dugald Cowan | Unopposed | |||
Unionist | Henry Craik | Unopposed | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | George Andreas Berry | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Dugald Cowan | Unopposed | |||
Unionist | Henry Craik | Unopposed | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Henry Craik | 7,188 | 40.8 | ||
Liberal | Dugald Cowan | 5,011 | 28.4 | ||
Unionist | George Andreas Berry | 3,781 | 21.5 | ||
Labour | John Martin Munro | 1,639 | 9.3 | ||
Majority | 2,177 | 12.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 17,619 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | John Buchan | 16,963 | 87.7 | +66.2 | |
Labour | Hugh Guthrie | 2,378 | 12.3 | +3.0 | |
Majority | 14,585 | 75.4 | +63.2 | ||
Turnout | 19,341 | 55.1 | 0.0 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
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1 | 2 | ||||
Unionist | John Buchan | 39.7 | 9,959 | ||
Liberal | Dugald Cowan | 26.7 | 6,698 | ||
Unionist | George Berry | 22.9 | 5,755 | 9,262 | |
Labour | James Kerr (Scottish doctor) | 10.7 | 2,691 | 2,867 | |
Electorate: 43,192 Valid: 25,103 Quota: 6,276 Turnout: 25,103 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | John Buchan | Unopposed | |||
Liberal | Dugald Cowan | Unopposed | |||
Unionist | Noel Skelton | Unopposed | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | George Morrison | 18,070 | 79.2 | N/A | |
Labour | Robert Gibson | 4,750 | 20.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,320 | 58.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 22,820 | 44.3 | N/A | ||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | John Graham Kerr | 20,507 | 82.7 | New | |
Labour | Naomi Mitchison | 4,293 | 17.3 | -3.5 | |
Majority | 16,214 | 65.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 24,800 | 48.1 | N/A | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | John Graham Kerr | 8,252 | 30.4 | ||
Liberal National | George Morrison | 7,529 | 27.7 | ||
Unionist | Noel Skelton[5] | 7,479 | 27.6 | ||
SNP | Andrew Dewar Gibb | 3,865 | 14.2 | ||
Majority | 723 | 13.4 | |||
Turnout | 27,125 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Labour | Ramsay MacDonald | 16,393 | 56.5 | New | |
SNP | Andrew Dewar Gibb | 9,034 | 31.1 | +16.9 | |
Labour | David Cleghorn Thomson | 3,597 | 12.4 | New | |
Majority | 7,359 | 37.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 29,024 | 54.8 | +3.6 | ||
National Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Independent | John Anderson | 14,042 | 48.8 | −7.7 | |
Independent | Frances H. Melville | 5,618 | 19.5 | New | |
SNP | Andrew Dewar Gibb | 5,246 | 18.2 | −12.9 | |
Independent Progressive | Peter Chalmers Mitchell | 3,868 | 13.5 | New | |
Majority | 8,424 | 29.3 | +3.9 | ||
Turnout | 28,774 | 52.1 | −2.7 | ||
National hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | John Boyd-Orr | 20,197 | 71.2 | New | |
Liberal National | R.M. Munro | 8,177 | 28.8 | New | |
Majority | 12,020 | 28.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 28,374 | 44.6 | −7.5 | ||
Registered electors | 63,581 | ||||
Independent gain from Liberal National | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | John Anderson | 16,011 | 48.8 | New | |
Independent | John Boyd-Orr | 10,685 | 32.6 | New | |
Labour | Halliday Sutherland | 2,860 | 8.7 | ||
Liberal | Ralph Somerville Weir | 1,872 | 5.7 | ||
Unionist | John Graham Kerr | 1,361 | 4.2 | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 32,789 | 51.6 | |||
National hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Independent hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Walter Elliot | 22,152 | 68.2 | +64.0 | |
Labour | C. E. M. Joad | 3,731 | 11.5 | +2.8 | |
Liberal | John Bannerman | 2,593 | 8.0 | +2.3 | |
Independent | J. G. Jameson | 2,080 | 6.4 | New | |
Liberal National | Robert Scott Stevenson | 1,938 | 5.9 | New | |
Majority | 18,421 | 56.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 32,494 | 50.7 | −0.9 | ||
Unionist gain from Independent | Swing | N/A | |||
References
- Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
- Oliver and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
- The Times, 11 June 1929
- The Times, 26 November 1935
- Skelton died on 22 November, and his election has announced posthumously
- "Ex-Premier returned to Parliament. 7359 Majority in Universities By-election". The Glasgow Herald. 4 February 1936. p. 9. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
- "Universities By-election. Sir J. Anderson's Success". The Glasgow Herald. 1 March 1938. p. 3. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 2)
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by Woolwich West |
Constituency represented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1943–1945 |
Succeeded by Bishop Auckland |