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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 December 1918		12,935/27,283	47.41
Sir William Watson Cheyne, Bt	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	3,719	28.75
Dugald McCoig Cowan	Liberal Party	3,499	27.05
Rt Hon Henry Craik	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	3,286	25.40
Dr Peter Macdonald	Labour Party	1,581	12.22
Prof William Robert Smith	Independent	850	6.57

15 November 1922
Sir George Andreas Berry	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed
Dugald McCoig Cowan	Liberal Party	Unopposed
Rt Hon Henry Craik	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed

6 December 1923
Sir George Andreas Berry	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed
Dugald McCoig Cowan	Liberal Party	Unopposed
Rt Hon Henry Craik	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed

29 October 1924		17,619/31,977	55.10
Rt Hon Sir Henry Craik	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,188	40.80
Dugald McCoig Cowan	Liberal Party	5,011	28.44
Sir George Andreas Berry	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,781	21.46
Rev John Martin Munro	Labour Party	1,639	9.30

26 March 1927 Death of Rt Hon Sir Henry Craik, Bt.

29 April 1927		19,341/32,150	60.16
John Buchan	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,963	87.70
Hugh Boyd Guthrie	Labour Party	2,378	12.30
Majority		14,585	75.41

30 May 1929		25,103/43,192	58.12
John Buchan	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,959	39.67
Dugald McCoig Cowan	Liberal Party	6,698	26.68
Sir George Andreas Berry	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,755	22.93
Dr James Kerr	Labour Party	2,691	10.72

27 October 1931		46,996
John Buchan	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed
Dugald McCoig Cowan	Liberal Party	Unopposed
Archibald Noel Skelton	Conservative & Unionist Party	Unopposed

November 1933 Dugald Cowan remained on the Government benches when the Liberal Party went into opposition. Although remaining a Liberal Party member and not joining the National Liberal group, he gave general support to the National Government.

30 December 1933 Death of Dugald Cowan.

12 March 1934		22,820/51,522	44.29
Dr George Alexander Morrison	Liberal Party	18,070	79.18
Robert Gibson	Labour Party	4,750	20.82
Majority		13,320	58.37

Dr George Morrison was a supporter of the National Government and subsequently joined the National Liberal group.

22 May 1935 Resignation of John Buchan on appointment as Governor-General of Canada. (Chiltern Hundreds)

22 June 1935		24,800/51,522	48.13
Prof John Graham Kerr	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,507	82.69
Naomi Margaret Mitchison	Labour Party	4,293	17.31
Majority		16,214	65.38

14 November 1935		27,125/52,981	51.20
Prof John Graham Kerr	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,252	30.42
Dr George Alexander Morrison	National Liberal Party	7,529	27.76
Archibald Noel Skelton	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,479	27.57
Prof Andrew Dewar Gibb	Scottish National Party	3,865	14.25

22 November 1935 Death of Archibald Skelton.

31 January 1936		29,024/52,981	54.78
Rt Hon James Ramsay MacDonald	National Labour	16,393	56.48
Prof Andrew Dewar Gibb	Scottish National Party	9,034	31.13
David Cleghorn Thomson	Labour Party	3,597	12.39
Majority		7,359	25.35

9 November 1937 Death of Rt Hon James Ramsay MacDonald.

25 February 1938		28,774/55,272	52.06
Rt Hon Sir John Anderson	Nationalist	14,042	48.80
Dr Frances H Melville	Independent	5,618	19.52
Prof Andrew Dewar Gibb	Scottish National Party	5,246	18.23
Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell	Independent Progressive Party	3,868	13.44
Majority		8,424	29.28

25 January 1945 Resignation of Dr George Morrison. (Northstead)

13 April 1945		28,374/63,581	44.63
Sir John Boyd Orr	Independent	20,197	71.18
R M Munro	National Liberal Party	8,177	28.82
Majority		12,020	42.36

5 July 1945		32,789/63,581	51.57
Rt Hon Sir John Anderson	Nationalist	16,011	48.83
Sir John Boyd Orr	Independent	10,685	32.59
Sir John Graham Kerr	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,361	4.15
Dr Halliday Gibson Sutherland	Labour Party	2,860	8.72
Ralph Somerville Weir	Liberal Party	1,872	5.71

16 October 1946 Resignation of Sir John Boyd Orr on appointment as Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation. (Chiltern Hundreds)

27 November 1946		32,494/64,062	50.72
Rt Hon Walter Elliot Elliot	Conservative & Unionist Party	22,152	68.17
Dr Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad	Labour Party	3,731	11.48
John Macdonald Bannerman	Liberal Party	2,593	7.98
John Gordon Jameson	Independent	2,080	6.40
Dr Robert Scott Stevenson	National Liberal Party	1,938	5.96
Majority		18,421	56.69

John Jameson, a member of the Federal Union, fought the election as an advocate of the Union's policy although his candidature was not officially sponsored by that organisation.