Partick was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1918.
Partick | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Lanarkshire |
1885–1918 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | North Lanarkshire |
Replaced by | Glasgow Partick |
A division of the county of Lanarkshire, its territory was incorporated into the city of Glasgow in the 1890s. For the 1918 general election, it was largely replaced by the new Glasgow Partick constituency, a division of the city of Glasgow.
From 1885 the constituency consisted of "So much of the Parish of Govan as lies north of the Clyde and beyond the present boundary of the municipal burgh of Glasgow, and so much of the parish of Barony as lies to the west of the present main line of railway between Glasgow and Edinburgh of the North British Railway Company (being the old Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) and beyond the present boundary of the municipal burgh of Glasgow."[1]
Election | Member [2] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1885 | Alexander Craig Sellar | Liberal | |
1886 | Liberal Unionist | ||
1890 | James Parker Smith | Liberal Unionist | |
1906 | Sir Robert Balfour | Liberal | |
1906 | Constituency abolished. See Glasgow Partick |
Decades: |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Alexander Craig Sellar | 3,726 | 51.9 | ||
Conservative | Henry Lennox | 3,385 | 47.1 | ||
Scottish Land Restoration | John Murdoch | 74 | 1.0 | ||
Majority | 341 | 4.8 | |||
Turnout | 7,185 | 80.3 | |||
Registered electors | 8,945 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | Alexander Craig Sellar | 3,745 | 56.0 | +8.9 | |
Liberal | Robert Allan McLean | 2,944 | 44.0 | −7.9 | |
Majority | 801 | 12.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 6,689 | 74.8 | −5.5 | ||
Registered electors | 8,945 | ||||
Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +8.4 |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | James Parker Smith | 4,148 | 51.4 | −4.6 | |
Liberal | Charles Tennant | 3,929 | 48.6 | +4.6 | |
Majority | 219 | 2.8 | −9.2 | ||
Turnout | 8,077 | 85.7 | +10.9 | ||
Registered electors | 9,429 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | −4.6 |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | James Parker Smith | 5,005 | 53.9 | −2.1 | |
Liberal | Edward Tennant | 4,278 | 46.1 | +2.1 | |
Majority | 727 | 7.8 | −4.2 | ||
Turnout | 9,283 | 81.1 | +6.3 | ||
Registered electors | 11,453 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | −2.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | James Parker Smith | 5,551 | 56.1 | +2.2 | |
Liberal | William Lyon Mackenzie (Scottish advocate) | 4,344 | 43.9 | −2.2 | |
Majority | 1,207 | 12.2 | +4.4 | ||
Turnout | 9,895 | 75.2 | −5.9 | ||
Registered electors | 13,152 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | +2.2 |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | James Parker Smith | 6,950 | 59.6 | +3.5 | |
Liberal | Robert Lambie | 4,717 | 40.4 | −3.5 | |
Majority | 2,233 | 19.2 | +7.0 | ||
Turnout | 11,657 | 73.3 | −1.9 | ||
Registered electors | 15,921 | ||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing | +3.5 |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Robert Balfour | 9,477 | 54.3 | +13.9 | |
Liberal Unionist | James Parker Smith | 7,960 | 45.7 | −13.9 | |
Majority | 1,517 | 8.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 17,437 | 81.4 | +8.1 | ||
Registered electors | 21,411 | ||||
Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist | Swing | +13.9 |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Robert Balfour | 10,093 | 51.5 | −2.8 | |
Liberal Unionist | Archibald White Maconochie | 9,522 | 48.5 | +2.8 | |
Majority | 571 | 3.0 | −5.6 | ||
Turnout | 19,615 | 84.2 | +2.8 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | -2.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Robert Balfour | 10,535 | 50.8 | −0.7 | |
Liberal Unionist | Archibald White Maconochie | 10,190 | 49.2 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 345 | 1.6 | −1.4 | ||
Turnout | 20,715 | 84.2 | 0.0 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing | -0.7 |
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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
- Liberal: Robert Balfour
- Unionist: Robert Horne[9]
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