Berwick and Haddington (UK Parliament constituency)

Berwick and Haddington
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Berwickshire, East Lothian
1918 (1918)–1950 (1950)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Berwick and East Lothian

Berwick and Haddington was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 when it replaced Berwickshire until it was renamed Berwick and East Lothian for the 1950 general election. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.

The constituency covered the counties of Berwickshire and East Lothian.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	John Deans Hope	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Walter Waring	National Liberal
	1923	Robert Spence	Labour
	1924	Chichester de Windt Crookshank	Unionist
	1929	George Sinkinson	Labour
	1931	John McEwen	Unionist
	1945	John James Robertson	Labour
	1950	constituency abolished

Election results

General Election 1935: Berwick and Haddington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Helias Finnie McEwen	19,839
	Labour	J.J. Fraser	914,299

General Election 1931: Berwick and Haddington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Helias Finnie McEwen	25,169
	Labour	George Sinkinson	9,089

General Election 1929: Berwick and Haddington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Sinkinson	11,761
	Unionist	John Helias Finnie McEwen	11,435
	Liberal	Sir James Greig	8,132

General Election 1924: Berwick and Haddington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Chichester de Windt Crookshank	11,745
	Labour	Robert Spence	8,882
	Liberal	William Henderson Pringle	4,986

General Election 1923: Berwick and Haddington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Spence	8,576
	Unionist	Chichester de Windt Crookshank	8,508
	Liberal	Major Walter Waring	6,084

General Election 1922: Berwick and Haddington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Major Walter Waring	6,342
	Labour	Robert Spence	5,842
	Liberal	H. Pringle	4,422
	Independent Liberal	John Deans Hope	3,300

General Election 1918: Berwick and Haddington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Liberal	John Deans Hope	8,584
	Labour	R.W. Foulis	4,783
	Liberal	Rt Hon Harold Tennant	2,567

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)