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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 December 1918		21,242/39,702	53.50
John Mackintosh MacLeod	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	13,648	64.25
Walter Graham Leechman	Independent Labour	5,012	23.59
George MacPherson	Liberal Party	2,582	12.16
Majority		8,636	40.66

15 November 1922		24,536/38,031	64.52
William Hutchison	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,442	54.78
Robert Roxburgh	Liberal Party	11,094	45.22
Majority		2,348	9.57

6 December 1923		25,708/37,692	68.21
William Hutchison	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,025	42.89
Aitken Ferguson	Communist Party	10,021	38.98
Alexander James Grieve	Liberal Party	4,662	18.13
Majority		1,004	3.91

Aitken Ferguson sought election as a Labour candidatre despite the fact that he was an official Communist Party candidate and did not recieve endorsement from the Labour Party.

1 May 1924 Death of William Hutchison.

23 May 1924		28,027/39,779	70.46
Walter Elliot Elliot	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,488	55.26
Aitken Ferguson	Labour Party	11,167	39.84
Sir John William Pratt	Liberal Party	1,372	4.90
Majority		4,321	15.42

Aitken Ferguson's candidature had been endorsed by the National Executive of the Labour Party, but the Labour Party Annual Conference Report for 1924 reported that, due to developments during the campaign, it had been found impossible to render further official support. He was a member of the Communist Party at the time of the election.

29 October 1924		30,878/39,841	77.50
Walter Elliot Elliot	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,034	58.40
Thomas Archibald Kerr	Labour Party	12,844	41.60
Majority		5,190	16.81

30 May 1929		34,827/46,507	74.89
Walter Elliot Elliot	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,031	48.90
John Winning	Labour Party	15,173	43.57
William Reid	Liberal Party	2,623	7.53
Majority		1,858	5.33

27 October 1931		33,896/44,197	76.69
Walter Elliot Elliot	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,481	63.37
John Winning	Independent Labour Party	12,415	36.63
Majority		9,066	26.75

14 November 1935		31,055/42,837	72.50
Rt Hon Walter Elliot Elliot	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,100	48.62
Hector McNeil	Labour Party	14,951	48.14
Henry George Rae	Liberal Party	1,004	3.23
Majority		149	0.48

5 July 1945		26,691/43,225	61.75
John Lloyd Williams	Labour Party	12,273	45.98
Rt Hon Walter Elliot Elliot	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,185	45.65
Christopher Murray Grieve	Scottish National Party	1,314	4.92
Charles John Edwin Morgan	Liberal Party	919	3.44
Majority		88	0.33

Boundary Change
23 February 1950		30,640/38,899	78.77
Rt Hon Walter Elliot Elliot	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,197	49.60
John Lloyd Williams	Labour Party	13,973	45.60
Sydney John Ranger	Liberal Party	831	2.71
Christopher Murray Grieve	Independent	639	2.09
Majority		1,224	3.99

Christopher Grieve advocated a policy of Scottish nationalism.

25 October 1951
Rt Hon Walter Elliot Elliot	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,837	52.37
John Lloyd Williams	Labour Party	14,406	47.63
Majority		1,431	4.73

Major Boundary Change
26 May 1955		26,820/39,672	67.60
Rt Hon Walter Elliot Elliot	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,854	55.38
John Lloyd Williams	Labour Party	11,966	44.62
Majority		2,888	10.77

8 January 1958 Death of Rt Hon Walter Elliot.

13 March 1958		21,269/35,138	60.53
Mary Agnes McAlister	Labour Party	10,210	48.00
Katherine Elliot	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,850	41.61
David Murray	Independent	1,622	7.63
William Crerar Park	Independent Labour Party	587	2.76
Majority		1,360	6.39

8 October 1959		24,349/34,319	70.95
Francis James Patrick Lilley	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,355	50.74
Mary Agnes McAlister	Labour Party	11,254	46.22
William Crerar Park	Independent Labour Party	740	3.04
Majority		1,101	4.52

15 October 1964		19,131/28,407	67.35
Dr Maurice Solomon Miller	Labour Party	10,340	54.05
Francis James Patrick Lilley	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,791	45.95
Majority		1,549	8.10

31 March 1966		16,104/24,299	66.27
Dr Maurice Solomon Miller	Labour Party	9,311	57.82
Harold Dykes	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,793	42.18
Majority		2,518	15.64

18 June 1970		11,380/18,907	60.19
Dr Maurice Solomon Miller	Labour Party	6,106	53.66
Ronald Edgar Dundas	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,274	46.34
Majority		832	7.31

Major Boundary Change
28 February 1974		29,498/42,512	69.39
Neil George Carmichael	Labour Party	13,115	44.46
Dr Alan Roy Thomas Kenyon	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,717	36.33
Colin Mitchell MacKellar	Scottish National Party	5,666	19.21
Majority		2,398	8.13

10 October 1974		27,024/42,654	63.36
Neil George Carmichael	Labour Party	11,567	42.80
John Gordon Laird Rennie	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,448	27.56
Charles Duncan Calman	Scottish National Party	6,274	23.22
Samuel Glasgow	Liberal Party	1,735	6.42
Majority		4,119	15.24

3 May 1979		22,118/33,701	65.63
Neil George Carmichael	Labour Party	11,133	50.33
Alan Cameron Stewart MacDougall	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,374	28.82
Eric Matthew Bennett	Liberal Party	2,412	10.91
Ian Ogilvie Bayne	Scottish National Party	2,199	9.94
Majority		4,759	21.52