Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Dunbartonshire County constituency
Created:	1708
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons

Dunbartonshire was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1950.

In 1950 the Dunbartonshire constituency, along with the constituency of Dumbarton Burghs, was abolished, and the county re-organised into Dunbartonshire East and Dunbartonshire West divisions.

Owing to population growth in the county, caused by overspill from Glasgow into the new town of Cumbernauld and elsewhere, an additional constituency of Dunbartonshire Central was created in February 1974.

There were further boundary changes in 1983, and again in 2005, with the creation of the present day constituencies of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire.

Contents 1 Members of Parliament 1.1 Dunbartonshire (1708-1950) 1.2 Dunbartonshire East (1950-1983) 1.3 Dunbartonshire West (1950-1983) 1.4 Dunbartonshire Central (1974-1983) 1.4.1 Members of Parliament 1.4.2 Results

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Dunbartonshire (1708-1950)

• 1708 John Campbell

• 1722 Mungo Haldane

• 1725 John Campbell

• 1727 John Campbell, later Duke of Argyll

• 1761 Sir Archibald Edmonstone

• 1780 Lord Frederick Campbell

• 1781 George Keith Elphinstone, later Viscount Keith

• 1790 Sir Archibald Edmonstone

• 1796 William Cunninghame Bontine

• 1797 Alexander Telfer Smollett

• 1799 James Colquhoun

• 1806 Henry Glassford

• 1806 Charles Edmonstone

• 1807 Henry Glassford

• 1810 Archibald Campbell-Colquhoun

• 1821 John Buchanan

• 1826 John Campbell

• 1830 Lord Montagu William Graham

• 1832 John Campbell Colquhoun

• 1835 Alexander Dennistoun

• 1837 Sir James Colquhoun

• 1841 Alexander Smollett

• 1859 Patrick Boyle Smollett

• 1868 Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing

• 1892 John Sinclair, later Baron Pentland

• 1895 Alexander Wylie

• 1906 James Dundas White

• 1910 Arthur Acland Allen

• 1918 Sir William Hannay Raeburn

• 1923 William Henry Porteous Martin

• 1924 David Pinkerton Fleming

• 1926 John Gibb Thom

• 1929 Willie Brooke

• 1931 John Gibb Thom

• 1932 Archibald Douglas Cochrane

• 1936 Thomas Cassells

• 1941 Adam Storey McKinlay

[edit] Dunbartonshire East (1950-1983)

• 1950 David Kirkwood, later Baron Kirkwood

• 1951 Cyril Raymond Bence

• 1970 Hugh McCartney

• Feb 1974 James Stewart Barry Henderson

• Oct 1974 Margaret Anne Bain, later Margaret Ewing

• 1979 Norman Hogg, later Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld

[edit] Dunbartonshire West (1950-1983)

• 1950 Adam Storey McKinlay

• 1951 Tom Steele

• 1970 Ian Campbell

[edit] Dunbartonshire Central (1974-1983)

[edit] Members of Parliament

• 1974 - 1983 Hugh McCartney, Labour

[edit] Results

General Election 1979: Dunbartonshire Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hugh McCartney	20,515	51.9	+11.7
	Conservative	Nicholas Soames	8,512	21.5	+4.3
	Scottish National Party	W. Lindsay	6,055	15.3	-13.8
	Liberal	L. McCreadie	3,099	7.8	-3.0
	Communist	D. McCafferty	1,017	2.6	-6.1
	Christian Democrat	R. Darroch	312	0.8	N/A
Majority			12,003	30.4	+19.7
Turnout				80.0	+0.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Dunbartonshire Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hugh McCartney	15,837	40.2	-0.2
	Scottish National Party	C. Aitken	11,452	29.1	+14.6
	Conservative	Michael Hirst	6,792	17.2	-6.8
	Communist	Jimmy Reid	3,417	8.7	-5.9
	Liberal	J. E. Cameron	1,895	4.8	-1.6
Majority			4,385	11.1	-5.2
Turnout				79.8	-3.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Dunbartonshire Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hugh McCartney	16,439	40.4	N/A
	Conservative	Michael Hirst	9,775	24.0	N/A
	Communist	Jimmy Reid	5,928	14.6	N/A
	Scottish National Party	Andrew Welsh	5,906	14.5	N/A
	Liberal	C. Harvey	2,583	6.4	N/A
	Workers' Revolutionary	S. Hammond	52	0.1	N/A
Majority			6,664	16.3	N/A
Turnout				83.0	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing