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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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27 December 1832		797/927	85.98
John Campbell Colquhoun	Whig	422	52.95
Sir James Colquhoun, bt	Whig	375	47.05
Majority		47	5.90

19 January 1835		835/999	83.58
Alexander Dennistoun	Whig	436	52.22
Alexander Smollett	Conservative Party	399	47.78
Majority		37	4.43

5 August 1837		863/1,139	75.77
Sir James Colquhoun, bt	Whig	452	52.38
Alexander Smollett	Conservative Party	411	47.62
Majority		41	4.75

7 July 1841		1,212
Alexander Smollett	Conservative Party	Unopposed

14 August 1847		830/1,288	64.44
Alexander Smollett	Conservative Party	536	64.58
Thomas Campbell Robertson	Whig	294	35.42
Majority		242	29.16

16 July 1852		1,314
Alexander Smollett	Conservative Party	Unopposed

3 April 1857		1,348
Alexander Smollett	Conservative Party	Unopposed

7 May 1859		889/1,379	64.47
Patrick Boyle Smollett	Conservative Party	490	55.12
William Cunninghame Bontine	Liberal Party	399	44.88
Majority		91	10.24

20 July 1865		1,148/1,597	71.88
Patrick Boyle Smollett	Conservative Party	574	100.00
James Stirling	Liberal Party	574	100.00

Given that the vote was tied, the Returning Office made a double return.

13 March 1866 Petition - seat was awarded to Patrick Smollett.

19 November 1868		2,156
Archibald Orr-Ewing	Conservative Party	Unopposed

11 February 1874		1,937/2,265	85.52
Archibald Orr-Ewing	Conservative Party	995	51.37
John William Burns	Liberal Party	942	48.63
Majority		53	2.74

6 April 1880		2,657/2,976	89.28
Archibald Orr-Ewing	Conservative Party	1,333	50.17
John William Burns	Liberal Party	1,324	49.83
Majority		9	0.34

4 December 1885		8,871/10,063	88.15
Archibald Orr-Ewing	Conservative Party	4,514	50.88
Robert Threshie Reid	Liberal Party	4,357	49.12
Majority		157	1.77

10 July 1886		8,466/10,063	84.13
Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing, Bt	Conservative Party	4,249	50.19
Ronald Crauford Munro Ferguson	Liberal Party	4,217	49.81
Majority		32	0.38

13 July 1892		10,205/11,789	86.56
John Sinclair	Liberal Party	5,249	51.44
Alexander Wylie	Conservative Party	4,956	48.56
Majority		293	2.87

25 July 1895		10,717/12,292	87.19
Alexander Wylie	Conservative Party	5,375	50.15
John Sinclair	Liberal Party	5,342	49.85
Majority		33	0.31

10 October 1900		11,476/13,731	83.58
Alexander Wylie	Conservative Party	6,083	53.01
P R Buchanan	Liberal Party	5,393	46.99
Majority		690	6.01

25 January 1906		14,341/16,335	87.79
James Dundas White	Liberal Party	7,404	51.63
Henry Brock	Conservative Party	6,937	48.37
Majority		467	3.26

29 January 1910		16,247/18,399	88.30
James Dundas White	Liberal Party	8,640	53.18
Henry Brock	Conservative Party	7,607	46.82
Majority		1,033	6.36

15 December 1910		15,846/18,758	84.48
Arthur Acland Allen	Liberal Party	8,579	54.14
William Thomas Shaw	Conservative Party	7,267	45.86
Majority		1,312	8.28

14 December 1918		22,885/34,284	66.75
Sir William Hannay Raeburn	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	12,765	55.78
William Henry Porteous Martin	Labour Party	7,072	30.90
Arthur Acland Allen	Liberal Party	3,048	13.32
Majority		5,693	24.88

15 November 1922		26,623/38,559	69.04
Sir William Hannay Raeburn	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,407	50.36
William Henry Porteous Martin	Labour Party	13,216	49.64
Majority		191	0.72

6 December 1923		27,233/38,539	70.66
William Henry Porteous Martin	Labour Party	11,705	42.98
David Pinkerton Fleming	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,802	35.99
Joseph Stanley Holmes	Liberal Party	5,726	21.03
Majority		1,903	6.99

29 October 1924		29,095/38,469	75.63
David Pinkerton Fleming	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,223	55.76
William Henry Porteous Martin	Labour Party	12,872	44.24
Majority		3,351	11.52

19 December 1925 Resignation of David Fleming on appointment as a Senator of the College of Justice - Lord Fleming.

29 January 1926		26,436/35,239	75.02
John Gibb Thom	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,680	47.96
William Henry Porteous Martin	Labour Party	11,610	43.92
William Reid	Liberal Party	2,146	8.12
Majority		1,070	4.05

30 May 1929		39,800/49,113	81.04
Willie Brooke	Labour Party	18,153	45.61
John Gibb Thom	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,576	41.65
Henry Wallace Guthrie	Liberal Party	5,071	12.74
Majority		1,577	3.96

27 October 1931		45,236/54,625	82.81
John Gibb Thom	Conservative & Unionist Party	28,762	63.58
Willie Brooke	Labour Party	16,474	36.42
Majority		12,288	27.16

25 February 1932 Resignation of John Thom on appointment as a High Court Judge in India. (Northstead)

17 March 1932		38,501/54,625	70.48
Hon Archibald Douglas Cochrane	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,749	43.50
Rt Hon Thomas Johnston	Labour Party	13,704	35.59
Robert Gray	National	5,178	13.45
Hughie McIntyre	Communist Party	2,870	7.45
Majority		3,045	7.91

14 November 1935		49,296/61,216	80.53
Hon Archibald Douglas Cochrane	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,776	50.26
Thomas Cassells	Labour Party	20,679	41.95
Robert Gray	Scottish National Party	3,841	7.79
Majority		4,097	8.31

18 February 1936 Resignation of Hon Archibald Cochrane on appointment as the Governor of Burma. (Northstead)

18 March 1936		41,989/61,216	68.59
Thomas Cassells	Labour Party	20,187	48.08
Arthur Paterson Duffes	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,203	45.73
Robert Gray	Scottish National Party	2,599	6.19
Majority		984	2.34

1941 Resignation of Thomas Cassells on appointment as Sheriff Substitute of Inverness, Elgin and Nairn.

26 February 1941		25,762/66,510	38.73
Adam Storey McKinlay	Labour Party	21,900	85.01
Malcolm MacEwen	Communist Party of Great Britain	3,862	14.99
Majority		18,038	70.02

5 July 1945		56,019/78,100	71.73
Adam Storey McKinlay	Labour Party	28,383	50.67
Robert Alexander Allan	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,636	49.33
Majority		747	1.33