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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 December 1918		18,617/33,604	55.40
Rt Hon Robert Munro	Liberal Party - Coalition	13,043	70.06
Thomas Hamilton	Labour Party	5,574	29.94
Majority		7,469	40.12

1922 Resignation of Rt Hon Robert Munro on appointment as Lord Justice Clerk - Lord Alness.

15 November 1922		20,054/32,752	61.23
Sir Thomas Henderson	National Liberal Party	10,356	51.64
Sir Alfred Hamilton Grant	Liberal Party	9,698	48.36
Majority		658	3.28

6 December 1923		26,115/33,185	78.70
Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,258	43.11
Sir Thomas Henderson	Liberal Party	8,046	30.81
George Dallas	Labour Party	6,811	26.08
Majority		3,212	12.30

29 October 1924		27,687/34,594	80.03
Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,684	45.81
John McIlroy Wylie	Liberal Party	7,737	27.94
George Dallas	Labour Party	7,266	26.24
Majority		4,947	17.87

30 May 1929		35,545/45,287	78.49
Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,510	38.01
Arthur Robert McDougal	Liberal Party	12,232	34.41
Robert Gibson	Labour Party	9,803	27.58
Majority		1,278	3.60

27 October 1931		38,814/45,975	84.42
Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,394	55.12
David Edwin Keir	Liberal Party	17,420	44.88
Majority		3,974	10.24

19 October 1935 Succession of the Earl of Dalkeith to the peerage - 8th Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury.

14 November 1935		36,705/47,037	78.03
Lord William Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,342	49.97
Arthur Robert McDougal	Liberal Party	12,264	33.41
James Alexander Cuthbert Thomson	Labour Party	6,099	16.62
Majority		6,078	16.56

5 July 1945		34,943/47,492	73.58
Lord William Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,232	37.87
Archibald James Florence Macdonald	Liberal Party	11,604	33.21
Leonard Percy Thomas	Labour Party	10,107	28.92
Majority		1,628	4.66

23 February 1950		38,951/47,430	82.12
Archibald James Florence Macdonald	Liberal Party	15,347	39.40
Lord William Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,191	36.43
Leonard Percy Thomas	Labour Party	9,413	24.17
Majority		1,156	2.97

25 October 1951		40,442/47,614	84.94
Charles Edward McArthur Donaldson	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,438	40.65
Archibald James Florence Macdonald	Liberal Party	15,609	38.60
Thomas White	Labour Party	8,395	20.76
Majority		829	2.05