Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1918
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Mid 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 [ edit ] The name relates the constituency to the county of Lanark . The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the Mid division was to consist of "the parishes of Rutherglen , Carmunnock , so much of the parish of Cathcart as adjoins the two last-mentioned parishes, Cambuslang , Blantyre , so much of the parish of Hamilton as lies south and west of the River Clyde , Dalserf and Cambusnethan ".[1]
Members of Parliament [ edit ] Elections [ edit ] Elections in the 1880s [ edit ] Bousfield Mason's resignation caused a by-election.
Philipps Elections in the 1890s [ edit ] Caldwell Elections in the 1900s [ edit ] Elections in the 1910s [ edit ] Smillie Whitehouse 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 the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
References [ edit ] ^ Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, Seventh Schedule, Part II ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1) ^ a b c d e f g h i j British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918, FWS Craig ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889 ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893 ^ "Person Page - 43205" . The Peerage . Wellington, New Zealand: Lundy Consulting. Retrieved 11 November 2017 . ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901 ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907 ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916 See also [ edit ]
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