Lanark (UK Parliament constituency)
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Lanark was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1918 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
| Lanark | |
|---|---|
| Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1918–1983 | |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | South Lanarkshire and Mid Lanarkshire |
| Replaced by | Clydesdale, Motherwell North and Motherwell South[1] |
There was also an earlier Lanark Burghs constituency, from 1708 to 1832.
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From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The Upper Ward County District, inclusive of all burghs situated therein, together with the part of the Middle Ward County District which is contained within the parishes of Avondale, East Kilbride, Glassford, and Stonehouse."
The Representation of the People Act 1948 provided that the constituency was to consist of "(i) The burghs of Biggar and Lanark; and (ii) the first, second and third districts and, so far as not included in the Hamilton constituency, the fourth and fifth districts."
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member[2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Walter Elliot | Unionist | |
| 1923 | Thomas Scott Dickson | Labour | |
| 1924 | Stephen Mitchell | Unionist | |
| 1929 | Thomas Scott Dickson | Labour | |
| 1931 | Alec Douglas-Home, Lord Dunglass | Unionist | |
| 1945 | Tom Steele | Labour | |
| 1950 | Alec Douglas-Home, Lord Dunglass | Unionist | |
| 1951 | Patrick Maitland | Unionist | |
| 1959 | Judith Hart | Labour | |
| 1983 | Constituency abolished | ||
Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
Election in the 1940s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
Notes and references
- ^ "'Lanark', Feb 1974 – May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
- ^ The Times, 17 November 1922
- ^ The Times, 8 December 1923
- ^ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
- ^ The Times, 1 June 1929
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
- ^ The Times Guide to the House of Commons
- ^ The Times Guide to the House of Commons
- ^ The Times Guide to the House of Commons
- ^ The Times Guide to the House of Commons
- ^ The Times Guide to the House of Commons
- ^ The Times Guide to the House of Commons
- ^ The Times Guide to the House of Commons