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Glasgow Gorbals
Former burgh constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of ScotlandCity of Glasgow
1918–1974 (1974)
SeatsOne
Replaced byGlasgow Queen's Park

Glasgow Gorbals was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Glasgow. From 1918 until 1974, it returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post system.

Boundaries

In 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary at the centre line of the River Clyde about 77 yards east of the centre of Rutherglen Bridge, thence southwestward along the municipal boundary to the centre of the Caledonian Railway Main Line from Glasgow to Rutherglen, thence north-westward along the centre line of the said Caledonian Railway to the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway, thence south-westward along the centre line of the said Glasgow and South Western Railway to the centre line of Victoria Road, thence northward along the centre line of Victoria Road, Eglinton Street, Bridge Street and Glasgow Bridge to the centre line of the River Clyde, thence south-eastward along the centre line of the River Clyde to the point of commencement."

Members of Parliament

Election Member [1] Party
style="background-color: Template:Coalition Labour/meta/color" | 1918 George Nicoll Barnes Coalition Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1922 George Buchanan Labour
style="background-color: Template:Independent Labour Party/meta/color" | 1931 Ind. Labour Party
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1939 Labour Party
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1948 by-election Alice Cullen Labour
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1969 by-election Frank McElhone Labour
Feb 1974 constituency abolished: see Glasgow Queen's Park

Election results

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Glasgow Gorbals[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank McElhone 10,260 69.3 −3.8
Conservative William Shearer 3,071 20.8 −2.0
SNP Tom Brady 1,089 7.4 N/A
Communist John Kay 376 2.5 −1.6
Majority 7,189 48.6 −1.6
Turnout 59.7 −2.0
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s

Glasgow Gorbals by-election, 1969[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Frank McElhone 7,834
SNP Tom Brady 3,671 N/A
Conservative William Shearer 2,732
Communist John Kay 361
Workers (Scotland) Matthew Lygate 72
Majority 4,163
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1966: Glasgow Gorbals[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 14,453 73.1 +1.7
Conservative W. C. Hunter 4,513 22.8 −0.2
Communist M. A. Hunter 819 4.1 −1.5
Majority 9,940 50.2 +1.8
Turnout 61.7 −2.8
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1964: Glasgow Gorbals[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 16,931 71.4 +8.1
Unionist W. C. Hunter 5,455 23.0 −7.8
Communist M. A. Hunter 1,339 5.6 −0.3
Majority 11,476 48.4 +15.8
Turnout 64.5 −3.7
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 20,731 63.3
Unionist W. C. Hunter 10,072 30.8
Communist Peter Kerrigan 1,932 5.9
Majority 10,659 32.6
Turnout 68.2
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1955: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 22,567 61.2
Unionist W. B. Thomson 11,839 32.1
Communist Peter Kerrigan 2,491 6.8
Majority 10,728 29.1
Turnout 65.2
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1951: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 25,288 61.8
Unionist J. A. Young 13,069 32.0
Communist Peter Kerrigan 2,553 6.2
Majority 12,219 29.9
Turnout 76.1
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1950: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 24,010 58.0 N/A
Unionist J. A. Young 13,013 31.5
Communist Peter Kerrigan 2,426 5.9 N/A
Anti-Partition W. McGuinness 1,920 4.6 N/A
Majority 10.997 26.6
Turnout 76.8
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s

Glasgow Gorbals by-election, 1948
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alice Cullen 13,706 N/A
Unionist W. Roxburgh 7,181
Communist Peter Kerrigan 4,233 N/A
Majority
Turnout
Labour hold Swing N/A
General Election 1945: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Buchanan 21,073 80.0
Unionist Sir Ian Auld Mactaggart 5,269 20.0
Majority 15,804 60.0
Turnout 56.9
Labour gain from Ind. Labour Party Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Glasgow Gorbals [6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Labour Party George Buchanan 22,860
Unionist M. Bloch 5,824
Labour A. Burnett 1,786
Ind. Labour Party hold Swing
General Election 1931: Glasgow Gorbals [7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Ind. Labour Party George Buchanan 19,278
Unionist M. Bloch 11,264
Communist Harry McShane 2,626
Ind. Labour Party hold Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Glasgow Gorbals [8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Buchanan 25,134 74.8
Unionist Sir Maurice Bloch 8,457 25.2
Majority 16,677 49.6
Turnout 33,591
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1924: Glasgow Gorbals [9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Buchanan 19,480
Unionist Robert McLellan 10,092
General Election 1923: Glasgow Gorbals [10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Buchanan 17,211
Unionist Robert McLellan 8,392 n/a
Majority
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1922: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Buchanan 16,478
National Liberal J.E. Harper 8,276
Independent Communist John Maclean 4,027
Liberal Francis John Robertson 1,456
Labour gain from Coalition National Democratic Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Glasgow Gorbals
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Coalition Labour George Nicoll Barnes 14,347
Labour John Maclean 7,436
Coalition Labour gain from Labour Swing

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
  2. ^ UK General Election results: 1970
  3. ^ 1969 - 70 By Elections
  4. ^ UK General Election results: March 1966
  5. ^ UK General Election results: October 1964
  6. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
  7. ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
  8. ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  9. ^ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
  10. ^ The Times, 8 December 1923
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