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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1868–1950 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dundee was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1950, when it was split into Dundee East and Dundee West.
Dundee | |
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Former burgh constituency for the House of Commons | |
Major settlements | Dundee |
1832–1950 | |
Seats | 1832–1868: One 1868–1950: Two |
Created from | Forfarshire[1] |
Replaced by | Dundee East Dundee West |
From 1832 to 1868 it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system, and from 1868 until its abolition for the 1950 general election it elected two MPs using the bloc vote system.
Winston Churchill became Member of Parliament for Dundee in a by-election of 1908 soon after losing his Manchester North West seat and retained the seat until 1922.
In 1906, the explorer Ernest Shackleton unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the Liberal Unionist Party.[2]
From its creation in 1832 the seat did not return a Conservative member until 1931 when Florence Horsbrugh was elected.[3] Originally a Liberal stronghold, the seat was one of the first in Scotland to return a Labour candidate, Alexander Wilkie, who was elected in 1906.[4]
At the 1918 general election both Churchill, still then a Liberal, and Wilkie were supported by the local Unionists, as well as their own party organisations.[5] From 1923 onwards the Conservatives/Unionists and Liberals each ran only one candidate in the constituency. This was part of an unofficial agreement between the two parties at a local level, with the understanding being that their supporters would give their other vote to the other party's candidate.[6]
The boundaries of the constituency, as set out in the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832, were-
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | George Kinloch | 852 | 59.0 | ||
Whig | David Charles Guthrie | 593 | 41.0 | ||
Majority | 259 | 18.0 | |||
Turnout | 1,445 | 89.1 | |||
Registered electors | 1,622 | ||||
Whig win (new seat) |
Kinloch's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Henry Parnell | Unopposed | |||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Henry Parnell | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 1,751 | ||||
Whig hold |
Parnell was appointed as Paymaster-General of the Land Forces and Treasurer of the Navy, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Henry Parnell | Unopposed | |||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Henry Parnell | 633 | 62.4 | ||
Conservative | John Gladstone | 381 | 37.6 | ||
Majority | 252 | 24.8 | |||
Turnout | 1,014 | 45.8 | |||
Registered electors | 2,214 | ||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | George Duncan | 577 | 56.5 | −5.9 | |
Radical | John Benjamin Smith[14] | 445 | 43.5 | New | |
Majority | 132 | 13.0 | −11.8 | ||
Turnout | 1,022 | 37.3 | −8.5 | ||
Registered electors | 2,739 | ||||
Whig hold | Swing | −5.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | George Duncan | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 2,635 | ||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | George Duncan | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,190 | ||||
Whig hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | John Ogilvy | 1,092 | 56.3 | N/A | |
Radical | George Armitstead[15] | 847 | 43.7 | New | |
Majority | 245 | 12.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 1,939 | 82.8 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 2,343 | ||||
Whig hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Ogilvy | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 2,317 | ||||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Ogilvy | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,039 | ||||
Liberal hold |
Seat increased to two members
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | George Armitstead | 7,738 | 36.8 | N/A | |
Liberal | John Ogilvy | 7,661 | 36.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | James Alexander Guthrie[16] | 3,548 | 16.9 | N/A | |
Liberal | Harry Warren Scott[17] | 2,085 | 9.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,113 | 19.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 10,516 (est) | 71.1 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 14,798 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Armitstead resigned, causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | James Yeaman | 5,297 | 51.0 | N/A | |
Liberal | Edward Jenkins | 4,010 | 38.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | James Fitzjames Stephen | 1,086 | 10.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,287 | 12.4 | −7.1 | ||
Turnout | 10,393 | 62.4 | −8.7 | ||
Registered electors | 16,652 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | James Yeaman | 6,595 | 33.2 | −3.6 | |
Liberal | Edward Jenkins | 6,048 | 30.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | John Ogilvy | 4,401 | 22.2 | −14.2 | |
Liberal | John Meiklejohn | 2,231 | 11.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | John Austin Lake Gloag[18] | 573 | 2.9 | New | |
Majority | 1,647 | 8.3 | −11.2 | ||
Turnout | 10,211 (est) | 57.3 (est) | −13.8 | ||
Registered electors | 17,814 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | George Armitstead | 9,168 | 43.8 | N/A | |
Liberal | Frank Henderson | 6,750 | 32.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | James Yeaman | 4,993 | 23.9 | +21.0 | |
Majority | 1,757 | 8.4 | +0.1 | ||
Turnout | 14,161 (est) | 97.2 (est) | +39.9 | ||
Registered electors | 14,566 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Lacaita | 8,261 | 30.7 | −13.1 | |
Liberal | Edmund Robertson | 7,187 | 26.7 | −5.6 | |
Independent Liberal | Alexander Hay Moncur | 6,279 | 23.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Edward Jenkins | 5,149 | 19.2 | −4.7 | |
Majority | 908 | 3.3 | −5.1 | ||
Turnout | 14,623 | 83.9 | −13.3 (est) | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | −4.2 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | −0.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edmund Robertson | 8,236 | 35.3 | +8.6 | |
Liberal | Charles Lacaita | 8,216 | 35.2 | +4.5 | |
Liberal Unionist | Brinsley de Courcy Nixon | 3,545 | 15.2 | −4.0 | |
Liberal Unionist | Henry Daly | 3,346 | 14.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,671 | 20.0 | +16.7 | ||
Turnout | 11,893 | 68.3 | −15.6 | ||
Registered electors | 17,420 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +6.3 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | +4.3 |
Lacita's resignation caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Joseph Bottomley Firth | 7,856 | 65.1 | −5.4 | |
Liberal Unionist | Henry Daly | 4,217 | 34.9 | +5.4 | |
Majority | 3,639 | 30.2 | +10.2 | ||
Turnout | 12,073 | 72.7 | +4.4 | ||
Registered electors | 16,613 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −5.4 |
Firth's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Leng | 8,484 | 30.5 | −4.7 | |
Liberal | Edmund Robertson | 8,191 | 29.5 | −5.8 | |
Conservative | William Dalgleish | 5,659 | 20.4 | +5.2 | |
Liberal Unionist | William Charles Smith (politician) | 5,066 | 18.3 | +4.0 | |
Scottish Labour | James MacDonald | 354 | 1.3 | New | |
Majority | 2,532 | 9.1 | −10.9 | ||
Turnout | 14,025 (est) | 77.0 | +8.7 | ||
Registered electors | 18,214 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −5.0 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | −5.5 |
Robertson is appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty, requiring a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edmund Robertson | Unopposed | |||
Liberal hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edmund Robertson | 7,602 | 29.0 | −0.5 | |
Liberal | John Leng | 7,592 | 28.9 | −1.6 | |
Liberal Unionist | William Charles Smith (politician) | 5,390 | 20.6 | +2.3 | |
Conservative | Edward Jenkins | 4,318 | 16.5 | −3.9 | |
Ind. Labour Party | James MacDonald | 1,313 | 5.0 | +3.7 | |
Majority | 2,202 | 8.3 | −0.8 | ||
Turnout | 13,490 (est) | 74.9 | −2.1 | ||
Registered electors | 18,011 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −1.4 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | +1.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edmund Robertson | 7,777 | 30.2 | +1.2 | |
Liberal | John Leng | 7,650 | 29.7 | +0.8 | |
Conservative | Alexander Duncan Smith | 5,181 | 20.1 | +3.6 | |
Liberal Unionist | J.E. Graham | 5,152 | 20.0 | −0.6 | |
Majority | 2,469 | 9.6 | +1.3 | ||
Turnout | 25,760 | 69.5 | −5.4 | ||
Registered electors | 18,655 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −1.2 | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | −1.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Edmund Robertson | 9,276 | 31.7 | +1.5 | |
Labour Repr. Cmte. | Alexander Wilkie | 6,833 | 23.3 | New | |
Liberal | Sir Henry Robson | 6,122 | 20.9 | −8.8 | |
Liberal Unionist | Ernest Shackleton | 3,865 | 13.2 | −6.8 | |
Conservative | Alexander Duncan Smith | 3,183 | 10.9 | −9.2 | |
Turnout | 29,279 | 81.9 | +12.4 | ||
Registered electors | 19,492 | ||||
Majority | 5,411 | 18.5 | +8.9 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | +4.2 | |||
Majority | 711 | 2.4 | N/A | ||
Labour Repr. Cmte. gain from Liberal | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Winston Churchill | 7,079 | 43.9 | −8.7 | |
Liberal Unionist | George Washington Baxter, 1st Baronet | 4,370 | 27.1 | −3.0 | |
Labour | G. H. Stuart-Bunning | 4,014 | 24.9 | +1.6 | |
Scottish Prohibition | Edwin Scrymgeour | 655 | 4.1 | New | |
Majority | 2,709 | 16.8 | −1.7 | ||
Turnout | 16,138 | 84.6 | +2.7 | ||
Registered electors | 19,041 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −2.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Winston Churchill | 10,747 | 34.1 | −18.5'"`UNIQ−−ref−0000009E−QINU`"' | |
Labour | Alexander Wilkie | 10,365 | 32.9 | +9.6 | |
Conservative | John Hall Seymour Lloyd | 4,552 | 14.4 | +3.5 | |
Liberal Unionist | James Glass | 4,339 | 13.8 | +0.6 | |
Scottish Prohibition | Edwin Scrymgeour | 1,512 | 4.8 | New | |
Turnout | 31,515 | 86.1 | +4.2 | ||
Registered electors | 19,374 | ||||
Majority | 6,195 | 19.7 | +1.2 | ||
Liberal hold | |||||
Majority | 5,813 | 18.5 | +16.1 | ||
Labour hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Winston Churchill | 9,240 | 30.1 | −4.0 | |
Labour | Alexander Wilkie | 8,957 | 29.3 | −3.6 | |
Liberal Unionist | George Washington Baxter, 1st Baronet | 5,685 | 18.6 | +4.8 | |
Conservative | John Hall Seymour Lloyd | 4,914 | 16.0 | +1.6 | |
Scottish Prohibition | Edwin Scrymgeour | 1,825 | 6.0 | +1.2 | |
Turnout | 30,621 | 84.1 | −2.0 | ||
Registered electors | 19,118 | ||||
Majority | 3,555 | 11.5 | −8.2 | ||
Liberal hold | |||||
Majority | 3,272 | 10.7 | −7.8 | ||
Labour hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Winston Churchill | 7,302 | 78.2 | +58.1 | |
Scottish Prohibition | Edwin Scrymgeour | 2,036 | 21.8 | +15.8 | |
Majority | 5,266 | 56.4 | +44.9 | ||
Turnout | 9,338 | 42.5 | −41.6 | ||
Registered electors | 21,953 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | +21.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Liberal | Winston Churchill | 25,788 | 37.5 | +7.4 |
Labour | Alexander Wilkie | 24,822 | 36.1 | +6.8 | |
Scottish Prohibition | Edwin Scrymgeour | 10,423 | 15.1 | +9.1 | |
Labour | James Sunney Brown | 7,769 | 11.3 | N/A | |
Turnout | 68,802 | 46.6 | −37.5 | ||
Majority | 15,365 | 22.4 | +10.9 | ||
Liberal hold | |||||
Majority | 14,399 | 21.0 | +10.3 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
In 1918 Wilkie and Churchill were officially supported by the Dundee Unionist Party Association in addition to their own party organisations.[27]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scottish Prohibition | Edwin Scrymgeour | 32,578 | 27.6 | +12.5 | |
Labour | E. D. Morel | 30,292 | 25.6 | −10.5 | |
National Liberal | David Johnstone MacDonald | 22,244 | 18.8 | N/A | |
National Liberal | Winston Churchill | 20,466 | 17.3 | −20.2 | |
Liberal | Robert Pilkington | 6,681 | 5.7 | N/A | |
Communist | Willie Gallacher | 5,906 | 5.0 | New | |
Majority | 10,334 | 8.8 | N/A | ||
Majority | 8,048 | 6.8 | −14.2 | ||
Turnout | 118,167 | 80.5 | +33.9 | ||
Scottish Prohibition gain from National Liberal | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scottish Prohibition | Edwin Scrymgeour | 25,753 | 25.1 | −2.5 | |
Labour | E. D. Morel | 23,345 | 22.7 | −2.9 | |
Liberal | John Pratt | 23,031 | 22.4 | +16.7 | |
Unionist | Frederick William Wallace | 20,253 | 19.7 | New | |
Communist | Willie Gallacher | 10,380 | 10.1 | +5.1 | |
Majority | 2,722 | 2.7 | −6.1 | ||
Majority | 314 | 0.3 | −6.5 | ||
Turnout | 102,762 | 72.5 | −8.0 | ||
Scottish Prohibition hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | E. D. Morel | 32,846 | 26.5 | +3.8 | |
Scottish Prohibition | Edwin Scrymgeour | 29,193 | 23.5 | −1.6 | |
Unionist | Frederick William Wallace | 28,118 | 22.7 | +3.0 | |
Liberal | Andrew Rae Duncan | 25,566 | 20.6 | −1.8 | |
Communist | Bob Stewart | 8,340 | 6.7 | −3.4 | |
Majority | 4,728 | 3.8 | +3.5 | ||
Majority | 1,075 | 0.8 | −1.9 | ||
Turnout | 124,063 | 83.8 | +11.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Scottish Prohibition hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Tom Johnston | 22,973 | 69.2 | +42.7 | |
Liberal | Ernest Simon | 10,234 | 30.8 | +10.2 | |
Majority | 12,739 | 38.4 | +34.6 | ||
Turnout | 33,207 | 42.4 | −41.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scottish Prohibition | Edwin Scrymgeour | 50,073 | 29.2 | +5.7 | |
Labour | Michael Marcus | 47,602 | 27.7 | +1.2 | |
Liberal | James Henderson-Stewart | 33,890 | 19.8 | −0.8 | |
Unionist | Frederick William Wallace | 33,868 | 19.7 | −3.0 | |
Communist | Bob Stewart | 6,160 | 3.6 | −3.1 | |
Majority | 16,183 | 9.4 | +8.6 | ||
Majority | 13,712 | 7.9 | +4.1 | ||
Turnout | 171,593 | 82.5 | −1.3 | ||
Scottish Prohibition hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Dingle Foot | 52,048 | 29.6 | +9.8 | |
Unionist | Florence Horsbrugh | 48,556 | 27.7 | +10.0 | |
Labour | Michael Marcus | 32,573 | 18.6 | −9.1 | |
Scottish Prohibition | Edwin Scrymgeour | 32,229 | 18.3 | −10.9 | |
Communist | Bob Stewart | 10,264 | 5.8 | +2.2 | |
Majority | 19,475 | 11.0 | N/A | ||
Majority | 15,983 | 9.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 175,670 | 84.8 | +2.3 | ||
Liberal gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Unionist gain from Scottish Prohibition | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Florence Horsbrugh | 50,542 | 26.8 | −0.9 | |
Liberal | Dingle Foot | 49,632 | 26.4 | −3.2 | |
Labour | Michael Marcus | 44,457 | 23.6 | +5.0 | |
Labour | Robert Gibson | 43,747 | 23.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,085 | 3.2 | −5.9 | ||
Majority | 5,175 | 2.8 | −8.2 | ||
Turnout | 188,378 | 84.7 | −0.1 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas Cook | 48,804 | 28.6 | +5.0 | |
Labour | John Strachey | 48,393 | 28.4 | +5.2 | |
Liberal | Dingle Foot | 33,230 | 19.5 | −6.9 | |
Unionist | Florence Horsbrugh | 32,309 | 18.9 | −7.9 | |
SNP | Arthur Donaldson | 7,775 | 4.56 | New | |
Majority | 15,163 | 8.9 | N/A | ||
Majority | 16,495 | 9.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 170,511 | 79.2 | −5.5 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing |
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