Glasgow Tradeston (UK Parliament constituency)

**Glasgow Tradeston**
Glasgow Tradeston; Burgh constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1955
Type:	House of Commons

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Glasgow Tradeston was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1955.

[edit] Boundaries

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of the fifteenth and sixteenth Municipal Wards. ^[1]

In 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the centre of Glasgow Bridge at the centre line of the River Clyde, thence southward along the centre line of Glasgow Bridge, Bridge Street and Eglinton Street to the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway at Eglinton Street Station, thence westward along the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway (Paisley Canal Line) to the centre line of Shields Road, thence northwards along the centre line of Shields Road to the centre line of the Caledonian Railway, thence westward along the centre line of the said Caledonian Railway and the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway to a point in line with the centre line of Church Road, thence northward along the centre line of Church Road, Whitefield Road, and the portion of Govan Road to the west of Princes Dock and continuation thereof to the centre line of the River Clyde, thence eastward along the centre line of the River Clyde to the point of commencement."

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Archibald Cameron Corbett, later Baron Rowallan	Liberal
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	January 1910		Independent Liberal
	December 1910		Liberal
	1911	James Dundas White	Liberal
	1918	Vivian Leonard Henderson	Unionist
	1922	Thomas Henderson	Labour Co-operative
	1931	William Hannah McLean	Unionist
	1935	Thomas Henderson	Labour Co-operative
	1945	John Rankin	Labour Co-operative
1955		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

General Election 1935: Glasgow Tradeston ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Henderson CBE	12,253
	Conservative	William Hannah MacLean PhD	10,354
	Ind. Labour Party	James Carmichael	3,423

General Election 1931: Glasgow Tradeston^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Hannah MacLean PhD	15,067
	Labour	Thomas Henderson CBE	13,579

General Election 1924: Glasgow Tradeston ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Henderson	14,067
	Conservative	D. Macdonald	11,074

General Election 1918: Glasgow Tradeston ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Conservative	Major Vivian Leonard Henderson MC	12,250
	Labour	J.D. McDougall	3,751
	Liberal	James Dundas White	3,369

By-election 6 July 1911: Glasgow Tradeston^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Dundas White	3,869
	Conservative	John Henry Watts	1,086

General Election Dec 1910: Glasgow Tradeston^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	Archibald Corbett	4,811
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald Pollock Main	3,137

General Election Jan 1910: Glasgow Tradeston^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	Archibald Corbett	2,966
	Conservative	Archibald Pollock Main	2,773
	Liberal	David Marshall Mason	2,673

General Election 1906: Glasgow Tradeston ^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald Corbett	4,416	50.6
	Liberal	David Marshall Mason	4,063	46.6
	Conservative	A. Rosenthal	245	2.8

General Election 1900: Glasgow Tradeston ^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald Corbett	4,389
	Liberal	William Maxwell	2,785

General Election 1895: Glasgow Tradeston ^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald Corbett	3,373
	Liberal	George Green	2,568
	Labour	Francis Smith	468

General Election 1892: Glasgow Tradeston ^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald Corbett	3,366
	Liberal	James Caldwell	3,197
	Labour	J. Bennet Burleigh	783

General Election 1886: Glasgow Tradeston^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald Corbett	3,878
	Liberal	Prof J.M.D. Mieklejohn	3,174

General Election 1885: Glasgow Tradeston^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Archibald Corbett	4,354
	Conservative	James Somervell	3,240
	Liberal	Wallace McGuffin Greaves	86

[edit] See also

[edit] References

^ Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
^ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

[0] Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule

[1] Whitaker's Almanack, 1939

[2] Whitaker's Almanack, 1934

[3] Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927

[4] Whitaker's Almanack, 1920

[5] Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916

[6] Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916

[7] Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916

[8] Whitaker's Almanack, 1907

[9] Whitaker's Almanack, 1907

[10] Whitaker's Almanack, 1907

[11] Whitaker's Almanack, 1893

[12] Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889

[13] Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889

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Glasgow Tradeston Burgh constituency
Created:	1885 (1885)
Abolished:	1955 (1955)
Type:	House of Commons