Motherwell (UK Parliament constituency)
Motherwell | |
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Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons | |
Major settlements | Motherwell, Wishaw |
1918–1974 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Motherwell and Wishaw |
Created from | North East Lanarkshire |
Motherwell was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1974. It was formed by the division of Lanarkshire. The name was changed in 1974 to Motherwell and Wishaw. It is famous for returning the first-ever SNP MP (Robert McIntyre in 1945) and arguably the first Communist Party MP (Walton Newbold in 1922).
Boundaries[]
From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The burghs of Motherwell and Wishaw, together with the part of the Middle Ward County District which is contained within the extraburghal portion of the parish of Dalziel."
Members of Parliament[]
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Robert Nelson | Unionist | |
1922 | Walton Newbold | Communist | |
1923 | Hugh Ferguson | Unionist | |
1924 | James Barr | Labour | |
1931 | Thomas Ormiston | Unionist | |
1935 | James Walker | Labour | |
1945, April | Robert McIntyre | SNP | |
1945, July | Alexander Anderson | Labour | |
1954 | George Lawson | Labour | |
1974, Feb. | constituency renamed: see Motherwell and Wishaw |
Election results[]
Elections in the 1970s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Lawson | 20,683 | 53.2 | -7.6 | |
Conservative | S. Bell | 12,509 | 32.2 | -3.0 | |
SNP | Isobel Lindsay | 3,861 | 9.9 | New | |
Communist | James Sneddon | 1,829 | 4.7 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 8,174 | 21.0 | -4.6 | ||
Turnout | 38,882 | 73.5 | -0.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Lawson | 22,658 | 60.8 | +2.1 | |
Conservative | John Joseph Young | 13,100 | 35.2 | -2.1 | |
Communist | James Sneddon | 1,508 | 4.1 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 9,558 | 25.6 | +4.2 | ||
Turnout | 37,266 | 74.4 | -4.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Lawson | 23,281 | 58.7 | +5.0 | |
Unionist | John Joseph Young | 14,789 | 37.3 | -5.7 | |
Communist | James Sneddon | 1,565 | 4.0 | New | |
Majority | 8,492 | 21.4 | +10.7 | ||
Turnout | 39,635 | 78.9 | -2.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Lawson | 22,009 | 53.7 | -0.2 | |
Unionist | Bernard Brogan | 17,613 | 43.0 | -3.1 | |
Independent | David Murray | 1,331 | 3.3 | New | |
Majority | 4,396 | 10.7 | +3.0 | ||
Turnout | 40,953 | 81.1 | +4.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Lawson | 20,147 | 53.9 | -3.4 | |
Unionist | Michael Hutchison | 17,262 | 46.1 | +3.3 | |
Majority | 2,885 | 7.7 | -6.8 | ||
Turnout | 37,409 | 76.5 | -8.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Lawson | 19,163 | 56.4 | -0.9 | |
National Liberal | Norman A Sloan | 13,334 | 39.3 | -3.5 | |
Communist | John Gollan | 1,457 | 4.3 | New | |
Majority | 5,829 | 17.2 | +2.7 | ||
Turnout | 33,954 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alexander Anderson | 23,641 | 57.3 | +3.1 | |
National Liberal | Norman A Sloan | 17,650 | 42.8 | +8.8 | |
Majority | 5,991 | 14.5 | -2.7 | ||
Turnout | 41,291 | 84.7 | +0.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alexander Anderson | 22,608 | 54.2 | +1.5 | |
National Liberal | A. Robertson | 14,183 | 34.0 | +13.4 | |
SNP | Robert McIntyre | 3,892 | 9.3 | New | |
Communist | R. Henderson | 1,007 | 2.4 | New | |
Majority | 8,425 | 20.2 | -5.8 | ||
Turnout | 41,690 | 84.5 | +11.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alexander Anderson | 15,831 | 52.7 | +2.0 | |
SNP | Robert McIntyre | 8,022 | 26.7 | N/A | |
Unionist | J. H. Hamilton | 6,197 | 20.6 | -28.7 | |
Majority | 7,809 | 26.0 | +24.6 | ||
Turnout | 30,050 | 72.8 | -3.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SNP | Robert McIntyre | 11,417 | 51.4 | New | |
Labour | Alexander Anderson | 10,800 | 48.6 | -1.9 | |
Majority | 617 | 2.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 22,217 | 54.0 | -22.9 | ||
SNP gain from Labour | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Walker | 14,755 | 50.7 | +2.0 | |
Unionist | Thomas Ormiston | 14,325 | 49.3 | -2.0 | |
Majority | 430 | 1.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 29,080 | 75.9 | -6.5 | ||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Thomas Ormiston | 15,513 | 51.3 | +25.2 | |
Labour | James Barr | 14,714 | 48.7 | -8.3 | |
Majority | 799 | 2.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 30,227 | 82.4 | +2.8 | ||
Unionist gain from Labour | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Barr | 16,650 | 58.0 | +5.9 | |
Unionist | John Ford | 7,502 | 26.1 | −21.8 | |
Liberal | Henry Archibald | 3,597 | 12.5 | New | |
Communist | Isabel Brown | 984 | 3.4 | New | |
Majority | 9,148 | 31.9 | +27.6 | ||
Turnout | 28,733 | 79.6 | −2.7 | ||
Registered electors | 36,094 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +13.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Barr | 12,816 | 52.1 | New | |
Unionist | Hugh Ferguson | 11,776 | 47.9 | +5.9 | |
Majority | 1,040 | 4.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 24,592 | 82.3 | +4.9 | ||
Registered electors | 29,871 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Hugh Ferguson | 9,793 | 42.0 | New | |
Communist | Walton Newbold | 8,712 | 37.4 | +4.1 | |
Liberal | John Maxwell | 4,799 | 20.6 | −1.0 | |
Majority | 1,081 | 4.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 23,304 | 77.4 | −4.1 | ||
Registered electors | 30,109 | ||||
Unionist gain from Communist | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Communist | Walton Newbold | 8,262 | 33.3 | New | |
Ind U | Hugh Ferguson* | 7,214 | 29.1 | +18.3 | |
Liberal | John Maxwell | 5,359 | 21.6 | −5.2 | |
National Liberal | John Colville | 3,966 | 16.0 | New | |
Majority | 1,048 | 10.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 24,801 | 81.5 | +17.3 | ||
Registered electors | 30,443 | ||||
Communist gain from Unionist | Swing | N/A |
* Ferguson was associated with the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland movement in Lanarkshire.
Elections in the 1910s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Unionist | Robert Nelson | 6,972 | 39.0 | |
Liberal | James Duncan Millar | 4,817 | 27.0 | ||
Labour | Walton Newbold | 4,135 | 23.2 | ||
Ind U | Hugh Ferguson* | 1,923 | 10.8 | ||
Majority | 2,155 | 12.0 | |||
Turnout | 17,847 | 64.2 | |||
Registered electors | 27,816 | ||||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
* Ferguson was associated with the Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland movement in Lanarkshire.
References[]
See also[]
- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1974
- Motherwell
- Politics of North Lanarkshire