Bothwell (UK Parliament constituency)

Bothwell
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Lanarkshire
1918 (1918)–1983 (1983)
Number of members	One
Created from	Lanarkshire

Bothwell was a county constituency in Lanarkshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1983. It was formed by the division of Lanarkshire constituency.

Boundaries

From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The part of the Middle Ward County District which is contained within the parishes of Old Monkland and Bothwell, exclusive of all burghs or portions of burghs situated therein."

The Representation of the People Act 1948 provided that the constituency was to consist of "The sixth district, the electoral divisions of Baillieston, Mount Vernon and Carmyle, Springboig and Garrowhill in the ninth district and that part of the electoral division of Old Monkland in the said ninth district which is bounded on the North by the city of Glasgow and the burgh of Coatbridge, on the West by the electoral division of Baillieston and on the South and East by the electoral divisions of Tannochside and Bellshill North."

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	David Henderson MacDonald	Coalition Conservative
	1919	John Robertson	Labour
	1926	Joseph Sullivan	Labour
	1931	Helen Brown Shaw	Unionist
	1935	James C. Welsh	Labour
	1945	John Timmons	Labour
	1964	James Hamilton	Labour
1983		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

By-election 1919: Bothwell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Robertson	13,135
	Coalition Liberal	J. Moffat	5,967

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Bothwell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Robertson	13,872
	Conservative	P.D. Ridge-Beedle	10,484

General Election 1923: Bothwell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Robertson	14,211
	Conservative	P.D. Ridge-Beedle	7,569
	Liberal	J.D. Scott	1,846

General Election 1924: Bothwell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Robertson	14,591
	Conservative	Mrs Helen Brown Shaw	11,314

By-election March 1926: Bothwell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Sullivan	14,830
	Unionist	A.M. Mackay KC	8,740
	Liberal	Ernest Young	1,276

General Election 1929: Bothwell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joseph Sullivan	17,006
	Conservative	Mrs Helen Brown Shaw	12,077
	Communist	Mrs H. Crawford	1,677

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Bothwell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mrs Helen Brown Shaw MBE	16,571
	Labour	Joseph Sullivan MBE	14,423
	Communist	B. McCourt	2,163

General Election 1935: Bothwell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James C. Welsh	20,900
	Conservative	Mrs Helen Brown Shaw MBE	13,761

See also

• Bothwell by-election, 1919
• Bothwell by-election, 1926
• Bothwell

References

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)