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Data Last Updated: 13 February 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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23 February 1950		37,857/50,080	75.59
Robert John Graham Boothby	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,971	65.96
James Gregor MacKenzie	Labour Party	12,886	34.04
Majority		12,085	31.92

25 October 1951		36,715/52,475	69.97
Robert John Graham Boothby	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,985	68.05
Alexander Garden Strachan Whipp	Labour Party	11,730	31.95
Majority		13,255	36.10

26 May 1955		27,143/45,423	59.76
Sir Robert John Graham Boothby	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,600	68.53
Charles Morris Ross	Labour Party	8,543	31.47
Majority		10,057	37.05

22 August 1958 Elevation of Sir Robert Boothby to the Peerage - Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head.

20 November 1958		29,453/44,694	65.90
Patrick Wolrige-Gordon	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,314	48.60
John Bruce Urquhart	Labour Party	7,986	27.11
Maitland Mackie	Liberal Party	7,153	24.29
Majority		6,328	21.49

8 October 1959		29,962/44,628	67.14
Patrick Wolrige-Gordon	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,982	63.35
John Bruce Urquhart	Labour Party	10,980	36.65
Majority		8,002	26.71

15 October 1964		30,474/43,502	70.05
Patrick Wolrige-Gordon	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,621	47.98
Norman William King	Liberal Party	7,088	23.26
David McGibbon	Labour Party	6,840	22.45
Bruce Mavor Cockie	Scottish National Party	1,925	6.32
Majority		7,533	24.72

31 March 1966		29,107/42,661	68.23
Patrick Wolrige-Gordon	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,067	41.46
Hon Robin Macdonald Sinclair	Liberal Party	8,034	27.60
Ian Stuart Davidson	Labour Party	6,422	22.06
Bruce Mavor Cockie	Scottish National Party	2,584	8.88
Majority		4,033	13.86

18 June 1970		31,447/45,711	68.80
Patrick Wolrige-Gordon	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,866	40.91
Alexander Ross Farquhar	Scottish National Party	9,377	29.82
Harold Claude Grimes	Labour Party	5,656	17.99
Gurth Christian Hoyer-Millar	Liberal Party	3,548	11.28
Majority		3,489	11.09

28 February 1974		36,110/47,176	76.54
Douglas Henderson	Scottish National Party	18,333	50.77
Patrick Wolrige-Gordon	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,634	34.99
William Ruxton Cruickshank	Liberal Party	2,727	7.55
Sarah Beverley Sissons	Labour Party	2,416	6.69
Majority		5,699	15.78

10 October 1974		33,642/47,736	70.48
Douglas Henderson	Scottish National Party	16,304	48.46
Keith William Twort Raffan	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,933	35.47
Sarah Beverley Sissons	Labour Party	3,173	9.43
Charles Alastair Dow	Liberal Party	2,232	6.63
Majority		4,371	12.99

3 May 1979		39,297/54,292	72.38
Albert McQuarrie	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,827	42.82
Douglas Henderson	Scottish National Party	16,269	41.40
Norman Leonard Bonney	Labour Party	6,201	15.78
Majority		558	1.42