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Data Last Updated: 16 February 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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23 February 1950		40,688/48,767	83.43
Rt Hon Arthur Woodburn	Labour Party	22,980	56.48
Hon Spencer Douglas Loch	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,630	33.50
Charles Hampton Johnston	Liberal Party	4,078	10.02
Majority		9,350	22.98

25 October 1951		42,958/50,142	85.67
Rt Hon Arthur Woodburn	Labour Party	25,231	58.73
Hon Spencer Douglas Loch	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,727	41.27
Majority		7,504	17.47

Boundary Change
26 May 1955		40,167/50,342	79.79
Rt Hon Arthur Woodburn	Labour Party	23,588	58.72
Raymund Craigie Aitchison	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,579	41.28
Majority		7,009	17.45

8 October 1959		42,136/52,200	80.72
Rt Hon Arthur Woodburn	Labour Party	25,004	59.34
Raymund Craigie Aitchison	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,132	40.66
Majority		7,872	18.68

15 October 1964		41,848/52,424	79.83
Rt Hon Arthur Woodburn	Labour Party	23,927	57.18
Angus MacDonald	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,815	30.62
Charles Douglas Drysdale	Scottish National Party	5,106	12.20
Majority		11,112	26.55

31 March 1966		40,819/52,640	77.54
Rt Hon Arthur Woodburn	Labour Party	22,557	55.26
Angus MacDonald	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,037	24.59
Charles Douglas Drysdale	Scottish National Party	8,225	20.15
Majority		12,520	30.67

18 June 1970		46,790/61,811	75.70
Richard Giles Douglas	Labour and Co-operative Party	23,729	50.71
James Fairlie	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,178	28.16
Ian Cameron Hay MacDonald	Scottish National Party	7,243	15.48
Robert Elliott Bell	Liberal Party	2,640	5.64
Majority		10,551	22.55

Boundary Change
28 February 1974		51,284/62,115	82.56
George Newlands Reid	Scottish National Party	22,289	43.46
Richard Giles Douglas	Labour and Co-operative Party	18,679	36.42
Anthony Henderson Lester	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,994	19.49
George Bolton	Communist Party	322	0.63
Majority		3,610	7.04

10 October 1974		51,292/62,693	81.81
George Newlands Reid	Scottish National Party	25,998	50.69
Richard Giles Douglas	Labour and Co-operative Party	18,657	36.37
Thomas Notman Alexander Begg	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,369	10.47
David Cathro Shields	Liberal Party	1,268	2.47
Majority		7,341	14.31

3 May 1979		54,354/66,535	81.69
Martin John O'Neill	Labour Party	22,780	41.91
George Newlands Reid	Scottish National Party	21,796	40.10
Thomas Notman Alexander Begg	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,778	17.99
Majority		984	1.81