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21 December 1832		955/1,242	76.89
Sir John Maxwell, bt	Whig	775	81.15
John McKerrell	Tory	180	18.85
Majority		595	62.30

March 1834 Resignation of Sir John Maxwell, bt. (Chiltern Hundreds)

24 March 1834		1,080/1,261	85.65
Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford	Whig	542	50.19
John Crawfurd	Radical	509	47.13
James Edward Gordon	Tory	29	2.69
Majority		33	3.06

19 January 1835		1,138/1,510	75.36
Alexander Graham Speirs	Whig	661	58.08
Horatio Ross	Conservative Party	477	41.92
Majority		184	16.17

17 March 1836		1,209/1,465	82.53
Archibald Hastie	Radical	680	56.24
James Aytoun	Radical	529	43.76
Majority		151	12.49

May 1836 Resignation of Alexander Speirs. (Chiltern Hundreds)

25 July 1837		1,610
Archibald Hastie	Radical	Unopposed

2 July 1841		157/1,324	11.86
Archibald Hastie	Radical	157	100.00
William Thomason	Chartist
Majority		157	100.00

2 August 1847		1,060
Archibald Hastie	Radical	Unopposed

14 July 1852		780/1,342	58.12
Archibald Hastie	Radical	406	52.05
William Taylor Haly	Radical	374	47.95
Majority		32	4.10

1 April 1857		1,139/1,305	87.28
Archibald Hastie	Radical	611	53.64
Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing	Whig	524	46.01
Charles Favell Forth Wordsworth	Chartist	4	0.35
Majority		87	7.64

December 1857 Death of Archibald Hastie.

11 December 1857		865/1,349	64.12
Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing	Whig	767	88.67
William Taylor Haly	Radical	98	11.33
Majority		669	77.34

30 April 1859		1,370
Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing	Liberal Party	Unopposed

13 July 1865		1,361
Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing	Liberal Party	Unopposed

20 November 1868		2,918/3,264	89.40
Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing	Liberal Party	1,576	54.01
Archibald Campbell Campbell	Conservative Party	921	31.56
Archibald Kintrea	Liberal Party	421	14.43
Majority		655	22.45

7 February 1874		5,083
William Holms	Liberal Party	Unopposed

April 1880		4,979
William Holms	Liberal Party	Unopposed

24 January 1884 Resignation of William Holms. (Chiltern Hundreds)

15 February 1884		4,855/5,688	85.36
Stewart Clark	Liberal Party	3,049	62.80
Lord Ernest William Hamilton	Conservative Party	1,806	37.20
Majority		1,243	25.60

25 November 1885		5,913/6,794	87.03
William Boyle Barbour	Liberal Party	3,390	57.33
Robert Mure McKerrell	Conservative Party	2,523	42.67
Majority		867	14.66

8 July 1886		5,548/6,794	81.66
William Boyle Barbour	Liberal Party	3,057	55.10
James Parker Smith	Liberal Unionist Party	2,491	44.90
Majority		566	10.20

13 May 1891 Death of William Barbour.

1 June 1891		6,952/8,107	85.75
William Dunn	Liberal Party	4,145	59.62
Robert Mure McKerrell	Conservative Party	2,807	40.38
Majority		1,338	19.25

6 July 1892		6,703/8,223	81.52
William Dunn	Liberal Party	4,262	63.58
Christopher Nicholson Johnston	Conservative Party	2,441	36.42
Majority		1,821	27.17

17 July 1895		7,466/9,105	82.00
William Dunn	Liberal Party	4,404	58.99
Alexander Moffatt	Conservative Party	3,062	41.01
Majority		1,342	17.97

4 October 1900		8,006/10,758	74.42
Sir William Dunn, Bt	Liberal Party	4,532	56.61
George Sitwell Campbell Swinton	Conservative Party	3,474	43.39
Majority		1,058	13.22

15 January 1906		10,740/12,179	88.18
John Mills McCallum	Liberal Party	5,664	52.74
James Anderson Dunlop McKean	Liberal Unionist Party	2,594	24.15
Robert Smillie	Scottish Workers Representation Committee	2,482	23.11
Majority		3,070	28.58

17 January 1910		10,702/12,331	86.79
John Mills McCallum	Liberal Party	6,812	63.65
Duncan Frederick Campbell	Conservative Party	3,890	36.35
Majority		2,922	27.30

5 December 1910		9,389/12,541	74.87
John Mills McCallum	Liberal Party	6,039	64.32
Alfred Roger Jephcott	Conservative Party	3,350	35.68
Majority		2,689	28.64

14 December 1918		22,179/38,508	57.60
Sir John Mills McCallum	Liberal Party	7,542	34.01
John McLaren Biggar	Co-operative Party	7,436	33.53
John Taylor	National Democratic Party - Coalition	7,201	32.47
Majority		106	0.48

19 January 1920 Death of Sir John McCallum.

12 February 1920		30,433/39,235	77.57
Rt Hon Henry Herbert Asquith	Liberal Party	14,736	48.42
John McLaren Biggar	Labour and Co-operative Party	11,902	39.11
James Anderson Dunlop McKean	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	3,795	12.47
Majority		2,834	9.31

15 November 1922		29,694/38,093	77.95
Rt Hon Henry Herbert Asquith	Liberal Party	15,005	50.53
John McLaren Biggar	Labour and Co-operative Party	14,689	49.47
Majority		316	1.06

6 December 1923		29,143/37,792	77.11
Rt Hon Henry Herbert Asquith	Liberal Party	9,723	33.36
John McLaren Biggar	Labour and Co-operative Party	7,977	27.37
Archibald Douglas MacInnes Shaw	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,758	26.62
David Dewar Cormack	Independent Labour	3,685	12.64
Majority		1,746	5.99

David Cormack was the nominee of the local Labour Party who refused to accept John Biggar as the official Labour candidate.

29 October 1924		31,886/37,901	84.13
Edward Rosslyn Mitchell	Labour Party	17,057	53.49
Rt Hon Henry Herbert Asquith	Liberal Party	14,829	46.51
Majority		2,228	6.99

30 May 1929		40,159/51,385	78.15
James Welsh	Labour Party	22,425	55.84
James McCulloch	Liberal Party	10,640	26.49
Minna Galbraith Cowan	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,094	17.66
Majority		11,785	29.35

27 October 1931		42,370/53,373	79.38
Hon Joseph Paton Maclay	Liberal Party	26,187	61.81
James Welsh	Labour Party	16,183	38.19
Majority		10,004	23.61

November 1933 Hon Joseph Maclay 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.

14 November 1935		44,543/55,473	80.30
Hon Joseph Paton Maclay	Liberal Party	22,466	50.44
Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin	Labour Party	22,077	49.56
Majority		389	0.87

5 July 1945		45,279/61,286	73.88
Hon Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, Viscount Corvedale	Labour Party	25,156	55.56
Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,826	32.74
Louise Glen-Coats, Lady Glen-Coats	Liberal Party	4,532	10.01
Allan Richard Eagles	Independent	765	1.69
Majority		10,330	22.81

14 December 1947 Succession of Viscount Corvedale to the Peerage - 2nd Earl Baldwin.

18 February 1948		47,881/63,008	75.99
Douglas Harold Johnston	Labour Party	27,213	56.83
John Macdonald MacCormick	Nationalist	20,668	43.17
Majority		6,545	13.67

Douglas Johnston was Solicitor-General for Scotland.

John MacCormick was firstly adopted by the local Liberal Association but subsequently an agreement was reached with the Conservative Association and he sought election as a "National" candidate.

Boundary Change
23 February 1950		52,035/61,924	84.03
Douglas Harold Johnston	Labour Party	29,204	56.12
Hugh Black	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,001	36.52
Vaughan Macintosh Shaw	Liberal Party	3,830	7.36
Majority		10,203	19.61

25 October 1951		53,406/63,281	84.40
Douglas Harold Johnston	Labour Party	29,570	55.37
John Fraser Wilson	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,545	30.98
Vaughan Macintosh Shaw	Liberal Party	7,291	13.65
Majority		13,025	24.39

26 May 1955		47,548/63,276	75.14
Douglas Harold Johnston	Labour Party	26,823	56.41
Robert Deans Kernohan	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,725	43.59
Majority		6,098	12.82

8 October 1959		49,769/63,097	78.88
Douglas Harold Johnston	Labour Party	28,519	57.30
Geoffrey Robert Rickman	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,250	42.70
Majority		7,269	14.61

January 1961 Appointment of Douglas Johnston as a Judge of the Court of Session - Lord Johnston.

20 April 1961		41,634/62,141	67.00
John Robertson	Labour Party	19,200	46.12
John Macdonald Bannerman	Liberal Party	16,837	40.44
Geoffrey Robert Rickman	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,597	13.44
Majority		2,363	5.68

15 October 1964		49,738/62,336	79.79
John Robertson	Labour Party	26,318	52.91
John Macdonald Bannerman	Liberal Party	16,837	33.85
Maurice Crichton	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,583	13.24
Majority		9,481	19.06

31 March 1966		46,941/61,363	76.50
John Robertson	Labour Party	28,160	59.99
Maurice Crichton	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,892	23.20
Vaughan Macintosh Shaw	Liberal Party	7,889	16.81
Majority		17,268	36.79

18 June 1970		47,011/65,740	71.51
John Robertson	Labour Party	25,429	54.09
John Cooperwhite Workman	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,232	32.40
Margo Symington Macdonald	Scottish National Party	3,432	7.30
Alan Sked	Liberal Party	2,918	6.21
Majority		10,197	21.69

Minor Boundary Change
28 February 1974		49,198/65,457	75.16
John Robertson	Labour Party	23,820	48.42
John Cooperwhite Workman	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,923	30.33
David Robert Rollo	Scottish National Party	10,455	21.25
Majority		8,897	18.08

10 October 1974		47,702/66,059	72.21
John Robertson	Labour Party	21,368	44.79
David Robert Rollo	Scottish National Party	15,778	33.08
Ian Robertson	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,440	15.60
Donald Thompson	Liberal Party	3,116	6.53
Majority		5,590	11.72

26 July 1976 John Robertson resigns the Labour whip and joins the Scottish Labour Party.

3 May 1979		46,416/63,765	72.79
Allender Steele Adams	Labour Party	25,894	55.79
George Wills	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,139	26.15
David Robert Rollo	Scottish National Party	7,305	15.74
Brian Monaghan	Scottish Labour	811	1.75
June Janette Tait	Communist Party	145	0.31
Thomas White	Workers Revolutionary Party	122	0.26
Majority		13,755	29.63