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27 November 1885		10,625/13,208	80.44
Gilbert Beith	Liberal Party	5,846	55.02
John George Alexander Baird	Conservative Party	4,779	44.98
Majority		1,067	10.04

5 July 1886		10,203/13,208	77.25
John George Alexander Baird	Conservative Party	5,780	56.65
Gilbert Beith	Liberal Party	4,423	43.35
Majority		1,357	13.30

6 July 1892		11,366/14,542	78.16
John George Alexander Baird	Conservative Party	6,121	53.85
Walter Menzies	Liberal Party	5,245	46.15
Majority		876	7.71

17 July 1895		9,413/15,107	62.31
John George Alexander Baird	Conservative Party	5,621	59.72
Edwin A Adam	Liberal Party	3,792	40.28
Majority		1,829	19.43

1 October 1900
John George Alexander Baird	Conservative Party	Unopposed

18 January 1906		13,009/15,616	83.31
Andrew Mitchell Torrance	Liberal Party	6,720	51.66
John George Alexander Baird	Conservative Party	6,289	48.34
Majority		431	3.31

4 February 1909 Death of Andrew Torrance.

2 March 1909		12,483/15,081	82.77
Rt Hon Charles Scott Dickson	Conservative Party	7,298	58.46
Thomas Gibson Bowles	Liberal Party	5,185	41.54
Majority		2,113	16.93

19 January 1910		12,771/14,768	86.48
Rt Hon Charles Scott Dickson	Conservative Party	6,713	52.56
Prof Alexander Falconer Murison	Liberal Party	6,058	47.44
Majority		655	5.13

8 December 1910		12,795/14,812	86.38
Rt Hon Charles Scott Dickson	Conservative Party	6,888	53.83
Prof Alexander Falconer Murison	Liberal Party	5,907	46.17
Majority		981	7.67

1 July 1915 Resignation of Rt Hon Charles Dickson on appointment as Lord Justice Clerk and elevation to the Peerage - Lord Dickson.

16 July 1915		5,607/17,610	31.84
John Mackintosh MacLeod	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,341	95.26
Gavin William Ralston	Independent Conservative	266	4.74
Majority		5,075	90.51

14 December 1918		22,389/42,329	52.89
Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	17,653	78.85
David John Mitchel Quin	Independent Labour	4,736	21.15
Majority		12,917	57.69

15 November 1922		30,878/43,351	71.23
Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,437	49.99
Edward Rosslyn Mitchell	Labour Party	12,923	41.85
Sir George Paish	Liberal Party	2,518	8.15
Majority		2,514	8.14

30 October 1923 Death of Rt Hon Andrew Bonar Law.

6 December 1923		29,238/43,292	67.54
Sir William Alexander	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,392	45.80
Edward Rosslyn Mitchell	Labour Party	12,976	44.38
Rt Hon Harold John Tennant	Liberal Party	2,870	9.82
Majority		416	1.42

29 October 1924		30,875/44,010	70.15
Sir William Alexander	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,258	59.14
James Dundas White	Labour Party	12,617	40.86
Majority		5,641	18.27

30 May 1929		35,999/49,983	72.02
Sir William Alexander	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,336	50.93
Craigie Mason Aitchison	Labour Party	17,663	49.07
Majority		673	1.87

27 October 1931		33,003/46,160	71.50
Sir William Alexander	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,547	65.29
William Henry Porteous Martin	Labour Party	11,456	34.71
Majority		10,091	30.58

14 November 1935		29,893/44,504	67.17
Sir William Alexander	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,707	55.89
Richard Rapier Stokes	Labour Party	13,186	44.11
Majority		3,521	11.78

5 July 1945		21,295/35,734	59.59
James Riley Holt Hutchison	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,365	43.98
James McInnes	Labour Party	7,849	36.86
Robert Hunt Cooney	Communist Party	2,709	12.72
Norman Macleod Glen	Liberal Party	1,072	5.03
Guy Alfred Aldred	Independent Socialist	300	1.41
Majority		1,516	7.12

Guy Aldred was the founder and leader of the United Socialist Movement.

Boundary Change
23 February 1950		27,203/36,739	74.04
James McInnes	Labour Party	14,861	54.63
James Riley Holt Hutchison	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,857	43.59
Guy Alfred Aldred	Independent Socialist	485	1.78
Majority		3,004	11.04

25 October 1951		27,043/36,379	74.34
James McInnes	Labour Party	15,757	58.27
William Sinclair	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,875	40.21
Guy Alfred Aldred	Independent Socialist	411	1.52
Majority		4,882	18.05

Major Boundary Change
26 May 1955		26,981/42,068	64.14
James McInnes	Labour Party	16,674	61.80
Iain David Barber-Fleming	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,307	38.20
Majority		6,367	23.60

8 October 1959		24,630/36,540	67.41
James McInnes	Labour Party	15,918	64.63
Iain David Barber-Fleming	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,712	35.37
Majority		7,206	29.26

15 October 1964		19,022/30,465	62.44
James McInnes	Labour Party	13,343	70.15
George Fortune Boyd	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,679	29.85
Majority		7,664	40.29

31 March 1966		15,597/26,579	58.68
Thomas McLellan McMillan	Labour Party	11,673	74.84
Ronald Bernard Anderson	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,924	25.16
Majority		7,749	49.68

18 June 1970		12,018/20,284	59.25
Thomas McLellan McMillan	Labour Party	7,936	66.03
John Gordon Laird Rennie	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,394	19.92
Angus McIntosh	Scottish National Party	1,688	14.05
Majority		5,542	46.11

Major Boundary Change
28 February 1974		16,028/25,430	63.03
Thomas McLellan McMillan	Labour Party	9,400	58.65
Leonard Gourlay	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,435	21.43
Stewart Martin Ewing	Scottish National Party	2,211	13.79
Alexander Paton Brodie	Liberal Party	982	6.13
Majority		5,965	37.22

10 October 1974		14,506/25,516	56.85
Thomas McLellan McMillan	Labour Party	9,231	63.64
Brian Nugent	Scottish National Party	2,790	19.23
Norman Woolfson	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,880	12.96
Eric Matthew Bennett	Liberal Party	605	4.17
Majority		6,441	44.40

3 May 1979		11,788/19,826	59.46
Thomas McLellan McMillan	Labour Party	8,542	72.46
Farooq Ahmed Saleem	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,937	16.43
Stephen Graham Bird	Scottish National Party	1,309	11.10
Majority		6,605	56.03

30 April 1980 Death of Thomas McMillan.

26 June 1980		8,068/19,984	40.37
Robert McTaggart	Labour Party	4,902	60.76
Gilbert Martin Paterson	Scottish National Party	2,122	26.30
Anna Anderson McCurley	Conservative & Unionist Party	707	8.76
John MacKenzie	Ind NF	148	1.83
Graham Watson	Independent Liberal	134	1.66
David George Mellor	Ecology Party	45	0.56
Donald Anthony Kean	Independent	10	0.12
Majority		2,780	34.46

Donald Kean sought election as a candidate of a Social Democratic Party he had founded in Manchester in July 1979.

John MacKenzie's candidature was repudiated by the National Front.

Major Boundary Change
9 June 1983		32,183/51,737	62.20
Robert McTaggart	Labour Party	17,066	53.03
William Andrew Harvey	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,104	18.97
Isabel Nelson	Liberal Party in Alliance	5,366	16.67
Peter Mallan	Scottish National Party	3,300	10.25
John Patrick McGoldrick	Communist Party	347	1.08
Majority		10,962	34.06

11 June 1987		33,533/51,562	65.03
Robert McTaggart	Labour Party	21,619	64.47
Bernard Christison Jenkin	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,366	13.02
Dr John Stephens Bryden	Liberal Party in Alliance	3,528	10.52
Alexander Bloomfield Wilson	Scottish National Party	3,339	9.96
Andrew Brooks	Green Party	290	0.86
John Patrick McGoldrick	Communist Party	265	0.79
Derek Owen	Red Front	126	0.38
Majority		17,253	51.45

23 March 1989 Death of Bob McTaggart.

15 June 1989		26,535/49,784	53.30
Michael Goodall Watson	Labour Party	14,480	54.57
Alexander Neil	Scottish National Party	8,018	30.22
Allan James McGinley Hogarth	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,028	7.64
Irene F Brandt	Green Party	1,019	3.84
Robert Anderson McCreadie	Liberal Democrats	411	1.55
Peter Edward Kerr	Social Democratic Party	253	0.95
Linda Murdoch	Revolutionary Communist Party	141	0.53
William Kidd	Scottish Socialist	137	0.52
David John Lettice	Workers Revolutionary Party	48	0.18
Majority		6,462	24.35

9 April 1992		30,333/48,107	63.05
Michael Goodall Watson	Labour Party	17,341	57.17
Brendan O'Hara	Scottish National Party	6,322	20.84
Ewen Newton Stewart	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,208	13.87
Dr Alan Nisbet Rennie	Liberal Democrats	1,921	6.33
Irene F Brandt	Green Party	435	1.43
Tam Dean Burn	Communist Party	106	0.35
Majority		11,019	36.33

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5 May 2005		28,037/64,053	43.77
Mohammad Sarwar	Labour Party	13,518	48.21
Isabel Nelson	Liberal Democrats	4,987	17.79
William Kidd	Scottish National Party	4,148	14.79
Richard Alan Sullivan	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,757	6.27
Gordon Hugh Macleod Masterton	Green Party	1,372	4.89
Maire Gordon	Scottish Socialist	1,110	3.96
Walter Hamilton	British National Party	671	2.39
Ian Johnson	Socialist Labour	255	0.91
Thomas Dick Greig	Christian Vote	139	0.50
Elinor McKenzie	Communist Party of Great Britain	80	0.29
Majority		8,531	30.43

6 May 2010		30,572/58,246	52.49
Anas Sarwar	Labour Party	15,908	52.03
Osama Saeed	Scottish National Party	5,357	17.52
Christopher Young	Liberal Democrats	5,010	16.39
John Bradley	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,158	7.06
Alastair Whitelaw	Green Party	800	2.62
Ian Holt	British National Party	616	2.01
James Nesbitt	Scottish Socialist	357	1.17
Ramsay Urquhart	UK Independence Party	246	0.80
Finlay Archibald	Pirate	120	0.39
Majority		10,551	34.51

7 May 2015		39,318/70,945	55.42
Alison Emily Thewliss	Scottish National Party	20,658	52.54
Anas Sarwar	Labour Party	12,996	33.05
Simon Robert Bone	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,359	6.00
Cass MacGregor	Green Party	1,559	3.97
Stuart Maskell	UK Independence Party	786	2.00
Christopher Young	Liberal Democrats	612	1.56
James Marris	CISTA	171	0.43
Andrew Elliot	Trades Union & Socialist Coalition	119	0.30
Katie Rhodes	Socialist Equality	58	0.15
Majority		7,662	19.49

8 June 2017		35,984/64,346	55.92
Alison Emily Thewliss	Scottish National Party	16,096	44.73
Faten Hameed	Labour Party	13,829	38.43
Charlotte Fairbanks	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,014	13.93
Isabel Nelson	Liberal Democrats	1,045	2.90
Majority		2,267	6.30

12 December 2019		40,105/69,230	57.93
Alison Emily Thewliss	Scottish National Party	19,750	49.25
Faten Hameed	Labour Party	13,276	33.10
Flora Minerva Scarabello	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,698	9.22
Ewan Hoyle	Liberal Democrats	1,952	4.87
Elaine Michelle Gallagher	Green Party	1,429	3.56
Majority		6,474	16.14