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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 December 1918		19,728/31,488	62.65
Thomas Benjamin Stratton Adair	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	9,901	50.19
John Wheatley	Labour Party	9,827	49.81
Majority		74	0.38

15 November 1922		24,869/29,639	83.91
John Wheatley	Labour Party	14,695	59.09
Thomas Bridgehill Wilson Ramsay	National Liberal Party	9,704	39.02
Guy Alfred Aldred	Independent Communist	470	1.89
Majority		4,991	20.07

Guy Aldred was the leader of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation which he had formed in Glasgow in 1919.

6 December 1923		21,095/29,708	71.01
John Wheatley	Labour Party	12,624	59.84
Francis John Robertson	Liberal Party	8,471	40.16
Majority		4,153	19.69

29 October 1924		24,798/30,324	81.78
Rt Hon John Wheatley	Labour Party	12,714	51.27
John Maurice Reid Miller	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,084	48.73
Majority		630	2.54

30 May 1929		32,464/42,193	76.94
Rt Hon John Wheatley	Labour Party	19,594	60.36
Herbert James Moss	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,870	39.64
Majority		6,724	20.71

12 May 1930 Death of Rt Hon John Wheatley.

26 June 1930		24,988/42,193	59.22
John McGovern	Labour Party	10,699	42.82
William Paterson Templeton	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,303	41.23
John M McNicol	Scottish National Party	2,527	10.11
Shapuji Saklatvala	Communist Party	1,459	5.84
Majority		396	1.58

27 October 1931		34,089/43,819	77.80
John McGovern	Independent Labour Party	16,301	47.82
James Lucas	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,530	45.56
James Young Marshall	Labour Party	1,856	5.44
William Eric Stevenson	New Party	402	1.18
Majority		771	2.26

14 November 1935		34,789/46,696	74.50
John McGovern	Independent Labour Party	18,377	52.82
Ronald Stanley Russell	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,802	39.67
George Beggs	Labour Party	2,610	7.50
Majority		4,575	13.15

5 July 1945		33,618/50,498	66.57
John McGovern	Independent Labour Party	11,947	35.54
William Gordon Bennett	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,453	31.09
John Stewart Dallas	Labour Party	6,910	20.55
Peter Kerrigan	Communist Party	4,122	12.26
Isaac Queen	Independent	186	0.55
Majority		1,494	4.44

Boundary Change
23 February 1950		41,402/51,801	79.93
John McGovern	Labour Party	23,467	56.68
Thomas Cumming Henderson	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,226	36.78
Malcolm MacEwen	Communist Party	1,678	4.05
James Walker Graham	Independent Labour Party	1,031	2.49
Majority		8,241	19.90

25 October 1951		42,430/52,267	81.18
John McGovern	Labour Party	25,359	59.77
John Oswald Mair Hunter	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,876	37.42
James Walker Graham	Independent Labour Party	1,195	2.82
Majority		9,483	22.35

23 November 1954 The Labour whip was withdrawn from John McGovern.

26 May 1955		37,109/53,533	69.32
John McGovern	Labour Party	21,464	57.84
John Oswald Mair Hunter	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,645	42.16
Majority		5,819	15.68

8 October 1959		37,659/49,987	75.34
Myer Galpern	Labour Party	22,916	60.85
David Edward Donaldson	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,743	39.15
Majority		8,173	21.70

15 October 1964		33,092/46,358	71.38
Sir Myer Galpern	Labour Party	22,494	67.97
Hon George Anthony Weir	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,598	32.03
Majority		11,896	35.95

31 March 1966		30,797/44,873	68.63
Sir Myer Galpern	Labour Party	20,208	65.62
William James Rennie	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,857	22.27
William Lindsay	Scottish National Party	3,732	12.12
Majority		13,351	43.35

18 June 1970		29,804/46,822	63.65
Sir Myer Galpern	Labour Party	17,840	59.86
Albert Nicholson McCue	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,969	26.74
William Lindsay	Scottish National Party	3,995	13.40
Majority		9,871	33.12

Major Boundary Change
28 February 1974		26,514/38,183	69.44
Sir Myer Galpern	Labour Party	14,208	53.59
Leonard MacKenzie Turpie	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,472	24.41
William Lindsay	Scottish National Party	5,834	22.00
Majority		7,736	29.18

10 October 1974		24,666/38,324	64.36
Sir Myer Galpern	Labour Party	13,391	54.29
Robert Hamilton	Scottish National Party	7,042	28.55
James Douglas Cran	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,543	14.36
Richard John Brodie	Liberal Party	690	2.80
Majority		6,349	25.74

3 May 1979		21,771/31,910	68.23
David Marshall	Labour Party	13,955	64.10
Myra McClure	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,794	22.02
Margo Symington Macdonald	Scottish National Party	3,022	13.88
Majority		9,161	42.08

Major Boundary Change
9 June 1983		35,462/52,648	67.36
David Marshall	Labour Party	19,203	54.15
Iain James Henderson	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,787	19.14
Simon Strachan	Liberal Party in Alliance	6,568	18.52
Daniel Hood	Scottish National Party	2,801	7.90
Kenneth John Hill	British National Party	103	0.29
Majority		12,416	35.01

11 June 1987		37,750/54,224	69.62
David Marshall	Labour Party	23,991	63.55
J Mark S Fisher	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,010	13.27
John Armstrong MacVicar	Scottish National Party	4,807	12.73
Pauline Agnes Margaret Clarke	Liberal Party in Alliance	3,942	10.44
Majority		18,981	50.28

9 April 1992		35,753/51,910	68.87
David Marshall	Labour Party	21,665	60.60
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon	Scottish National Party	6,831	19.11
Norman Robert Mortimer	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,376	15.04
Joan Pamela Orskov	Liberal Democrats	1,881	5.26
Majority		14,834	41.49

Major Boundary Change
1 May 1997		26,813/47,990	55.87
David Marshall	Labour Party	19,616	73.16
Humayun Hanif	Scottish National Party	3,748	13.98
Colin Simpson	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,484	5.53
Kerry Jane Hiles	Liberal Democrats	1,061	3.96
Christine McVicar	Scottish Socialist	482	1.80
Robert Currie	British National Party	191	0.71
Thomas W Montguire	Referendum Party	151	0.56
John McKay Manson Graham	Workers Revolutionary Party	80	0.30
Majority		15,868	59.18

7 June 2001		20,465/51,557	39.69
David Marshall	Labour Party	13,235	64.67
Jim Byrne	Scottish National Party	3,417	16.70
Rosemary Kane	Scottish Socialist	1,396	6.82
Lewis D Hutton	Liberal Democrats	1,105	5.40
James Campbell Murdoch	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,082	5.29
Murdo Ritchie	Socialist Labour	230	1.12
Majority		9,818	47.97