North West Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

55.828°N 4.060°W / 55.828; -4.060

North West Lanarkshire
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	county of Lanark
1885–1918
Seats	One
Created from	North Lanarkshire
Replaced by	Glasgow Shettleston, Glasgow Springburn and North Lanarkshire

North West Lanarkshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1885 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

Boundaries

The name relates the constituency to the county of Lanark. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the North-West division was to consist of "so much of the Parish of Barony as lies beyond the present boundary of the municipal burgh of Glasgow and to the east of the main line of railway before mentioned (main line of railway between Glasgow and Edinburgh of the North British Railway Company (being the old Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway), and the parishes of Cadder and Old Monkland".^[1]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[2]	Party
	1885	John Baird	Conservative
	1886	Cunninghame Graham	Liberal
	1892	Graeme Whitelaw	Conservative
	1895	John Goundry Holburn	Liberal
	1899 b-e	Charles Mackinnon Douglas	Liberal
	1906	William Mitchell-Thompson	Conservative
	Jan. 1910	William Pringle	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1885: North West Lanarkshire ^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Baird	4,545	56.9
	Lib-Lab	Cunninghame Graham	3,442	43.1
Majority			1,103	13.8
Turnout			7,987	85.2
Registered electors			9,373
	Conservative win (new seat)

Cunninghame Graham

General election 1886: North West Lanarkshire ^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	Cunninghame Graham	4,030	52.1	+9.0
	Conservative	John Baird	3,698	47.9	−9.0
Majority			332	4.2	N/A
Turnout			7,728	82.4	−2.8
Registered electors			9,373
	Lib-Lab gain from Conservative		Swing	+9.0

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: North West Lanarkshire ^[5][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Graeme Whitelaw	4,770	50.4	+2.5
	Liberal	James C.R. Reade	4,689	49.6	−2.5
Majority			81	0.8	N/A
Turnout			9,459	82.9	+0.5
Registered electors			11,408
	Conservative gain from Lib-Lab		Swing	+2.5

General election 1895: North West Lanarkshire ^[6][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Goundry Holburn	5,244	50.5	+0.9
	Conservative	Graeme Whitelaw	5,147	49.5	−0.9
Majority			97	1.0	N/A
Turnout			10,391	84.0	+1.1
Registered electors			12,371
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+0.9

Holburn's death caused a by-election.

By-election 21 Feb 1899: North West Lanarkshire ^[6][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Mackinnon Douglas	5,723	51.6	+1.1
	Conservative	Graeme Whitelaw	5,364	48.4	−1.1
Majority			359	3.2	+2.2
Turnout			11,087	83.1	−0.9
Registered electors			13,337
	Liberal hold		Swing	+1.1

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: North West Lanarkshire ^[6][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Mackinnon Douglas	5,505	51.4	+0.9
	Conservative	Lewis Edmunds	5,214	48.6	−0.9
Majority			291	2.8	+1.8
Turnout			10,719	79.0	−5.0
Registered electors			13,568
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.9

General election 1906: North West Lanarkshire ^[7][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Mitchell-Thomson	5,588	40.5	−8.1
	Liberal	Charles Mackinnon Douglas	4,913	35.6	−15.8
	Scottish Workers	Joseph Sullivan	3,291	23.9	New
Majority			675	4.9	N/A
Turnout			13,792	82.0	+3.0
Registered electors			16,814
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+3.9

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: North West Lanarkshire ^[8][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Pringle	8,422	47.7	+12.1
	Conservative	William Mitchell-Thomson	7,528	42.6	+2.1
	Labour	Robert Small	1,718	9.7	−14.2
Majority			894	5.1	N/A
Turnout			17,668	87.1	+5.1
Registered electors			20,274
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+5.0

General election December 1910: North West Lanarkshire ^[8][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Pringle	9,315	52.3	+4.6
	Liberal Unionist	Arthur Stanley Pringle	8,486	47.7	+5.1
Majority			829	4.6	−0.5
Turnout			17,801	83.2	−3.9
Registered electors			21,398
	Liberal hold		Swing	−0.3

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Liberal: William Pringle
• Unionist: