Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Aberdeenshire Western, Elgin Burghs and Kincardineshire |
Replaced by | West Aberdeenshire |
Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire was a Scottish constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1950.
Boundaries
In 1868, the constituency of Aberdeenshire was divided into Aberdeenshire Eastern and Aberdeenshire Western divisions. These continued as constituencies until 1918, when the county of Aberdeenshire and the county of Kincardineshire were treated as if a single county for parliamentary representation purposes, with the area of the former Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire constituencies being divided into three new constituencies, Aberdeen and Kincardine East, Aberdeen and Kincardine Central and Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West. In 1950 the Kincardinshire and Aberdeenshire counties were separated again, and a new boundary divided the Aberdeenshire area into East Aberdeenshire and West Aberdeenshire.
From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The county of Kincardine, inclusive of all burghs situated therein except the burgh of Inverbervie and that portion of the county of the city of Aberdeen which is situated within the said county of Kincardine, together with the county districts of Alford and Deeside, inclusive of all burghs situated therein."
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Coalition Liberal/meta/color" | | 1918 | Arthur Cecil Murray | Coalition Liberal |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1922 | Liberal | |
style="background-color: Template:Unionist Party (Scotland)/meta/color" | | 1923 | Malcolm Barclay-Harvey | Unionist |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1929 | James Scott | Liberal |
style="background-color: Template:Unionist Party (Scotland)/meta/color" | | 1931 | Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey | Unionist |
style="background-color: Template:Unionist Party (Scotland)/meta/color" | | 1939 by-election | Colin Thornton-Kemsley | Unionist |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Lt-Col. Hon. Arthur Cecil Murray | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Liberal win |
- Murray endorsed by Coalition Government.
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Hon. Arthur Cecil Murray | 6,224 | 62.3 | n/a | |
National Liberal | William Mitchell | 3,767 | 37.7 | n/a | |
Majority | 2,457 | 24.6 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 44.6 | n/a | |||
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey | 6,639 | 51.0 | n/a | |
Liberal | Hon. Arthur Cecil Murray | 6,369 | 49.0 | −12.4 | |
Majority | 270 | 2.0 | 26.6 | ||
Turnout | 57.8 | +13.2 | |||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey | 8,260 | 54.5 | +3.5 | |
Liberal | James Scott | 6,889 | 45.5 | −3.5 | |
Majority | 1,371 | 9.0 | |||
Turnout | 67.3 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | James Scott | 9,839 | 51.8 | +6.3 | |
Unionist | Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey | 9,171 | 48.2 | −6.3 | |
Majority | 668 | 3.6 | 12.6 | ||
Turnout | 66.3 | ||||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +6.3 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey | 14,266 | 61.6 | ||
Liberal | James Scott | 8,890 | 38.4 | ||
Majority | 5,376 | 23.2 | |||
Turnout | 23,156 | 80.6 | |||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey | 12,477 | 55.9 | ||
Liberal | Arthur James Irvine | 9,841 | 44.1 | ||
Majority | 2,636 | 11.8 | |||
Turnout | 22,318 | 75.6 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley | 11,111 | 52.7 | −3.2 | |
Liberal | Arthur James Irvine | 9,990 | 47.3 | +3.2 | |
Majority | 1,121 | 5.4 | −6.4 | ||
Turnout | 71.4 | −4.2 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -3.2 |
Election in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley | 10,932 | 51.5 | ||
Liberal | John Donald Brown Junor | 10,290 | 48.5 | ||
Majority | 642 | 3.0 | |||
Turnout | 68.7 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |