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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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27 November 1885		7,680/9,222	83.28
Archibald Cameron Corbett	Liberal Party	4,354	56.69
James Somervell	Conservative Party	3,240	42.19
Wallace McGuffin Greaves	Scottish Land Restoration League	86	1.12
Majority		1,114	14.51

Wallace Greaves sought election for the Scottish Land Restoration League.

5 July 1886		7,052/9,222	76.47
Archibald Cameron Corbett	Liberal Unionist Party	3,878	54.99
Prof John Miller Dow Meiklejohn	Liberal Party	3,174	45.01
Majority		704	9.98

6 July 1892		7,346/9,666	76.00
Archibald Cameron Corbett	Liberal Unionist Party	3,366	45.82
James Caldwell	Liberal Party	3,197	43.52
Bennet Graham Burleigh	Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party	783	10.66
Majority		169	2.30

17 July 1895		6,309/10,173	62.02
Archibald Cameron Corbett	Liberal Unionist Party	3,373	53.46
George Green	Liberal Party	2,568	40.70
Francis Samuel Smith	Independent Labour Party	368	5.83
Majority		805	12.76

4 October 1900		7,174/9,671	74.18
Archibald Cameron Corbett	Liberal Unionist Party	4,389	61.18
William Maxwell	Liberal/Labour	2,785	38.82
Majority		1,604	22.36

18 January 1906		8,724/10,449	83.49
Archibald Cameron Corbett	Liberal Unionist Party	4,416	50.62
David Marshall Mason	Liberal Party	4,063	46.57
Abraham Rosenthal	Independent Conservative	245	2.81
Majority		353	4.05

Abraham Rosenthal sought election as a Fiscal Reform candidate.

19 January 1910		8,412/9,664	87.04
Archibald Cameron Corbett	Independent Liberal	2,966	35.26
Archibald Pollock Main	Liberal Unionist Party	2,773	32.96
David Marshall Mason	Liberal Party	2,673	31.78
Majority		193	2.29

8 December 1910		7,948/9,609	82.71
Archibald Cameron Corbett	Liberal Party	4,811	60.53
Archibald Pollock Main	Liberal Unionist Party	3,137	39.47
Majority		1,674	21.06

26 June 1911 Resignation of Archibald Corbett. He was elevated to the Peerage the following day - Baron Rowallan. (Northstead)

6 July 1911		6,652/9,609	69.23
James Dundas White	Liberal Party	3,869	58.16
John Henry Watts	Liberal Unionist Party	2,783	41.84
Majority		1,086	16.33

14 December 1918		19,370/35,960	53.87
Vivian Leonard Henderson	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	12,250	63.24
James Dunlop MacDougall	British Socialist Party	3,751	19.36
James Dundas White	Liberal Party	3,369	17.39
Majority		8,499	43.88

15 November 1922		25,477/33,792	75.39
Thomas Henderson	Labour and Co-operative Party	14,190	55.70
Vivian Leonard Henderson	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,977	39.16
Charles de Bois Murray	Liberal Party	1,310	5.14
Majority		4,213	16.54

6 December 1923		21,266/33,713	63.08
Thomas Henderson	Labour and Co-operative Party	12,787	60.13
Douglas Macdonald	Liberal Party	8,479	39.87
Majority		4,308	20.26

29 October 1924		25,141/34,373	73.14
Thomas Henderson	Labour and Co-operative Party	14,067	55.95
Douglas Macdonald	Liberal Party	11,074	44.05
Majority		2,993	11.90

30 May 1929		30,856/40,743	75.73
Thomas Henderson	Labour and Co-operative Party	17,864	57.89
Ingram Spencer	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,992	42.11
Majority		4,872	15.79

27 October 1931		28,646/39,026	73.40
Dr William Hannah McLean	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,067	52.60
Thomas Henderson	Labour and Co-operative Party	13,579	47.40
Majority		1,488	5.19

14 November 1935		26,030/37,582	69.26
Thomas Henderson	Labour and Co-operative Party	12,253	47.07
Dr William Hannah McLean	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,354	39.78
James Carmichael	Independent Labour Party	3,423	13.15
Majority		1,899	7.30

5 July 1945		22,024/35,499	62.04
Jon Rankin	Labour and Co-operative Party	13,153	59.72
Hugh Robert Black	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,871	40.28
Majority		4,282	19.44

Boundary Change
23 February 1950		42,302/53,711	78.76
Jon Rankin	Labour and Co-operative Party	26,598	62.88
Alexander Hart	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,704	37.12
Majority		10,894	25.75

25 October 1951		42,737/53,404	80.03
Jon Rankin	Labour and Co-operative Party	26,966	63.10
Alexander Hart	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,771	36.90
Majority		11,195	26.20