Kilmarnock | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Ayrshire |
Major settlements | Kilmarnock |
1918–1983 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Kilmarnock Burghs, Ayrshire North and Ayrshire South |
Replaced by | Kilmarnock and Loudoun |
Kilmarnock was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
The constituency included the area of the former parliamentary burgh of Kilmarnock. The parliamentary burgh had been, previously, a component of the Kilmarnock Burghs constituency.
Prominent Members for this seat included long-serving Scottish Secretary Willie Ross, and senior judge Craigie Mason Aitchison.
The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 as one of four constituencies covering the county of Ayr and the county of Bute. Of the other three constituencies, two were county constituencies: Bute and Northern Ayrshire and South Ayrshire. The third, Ayr Burghs, was a district of burghs constituency. All four constituencies were entirely within the boundaries of the two counties.
The Kilmarnock constituency consisted of "The county district of Kilmarnock, inclusive of all burghs situated therein except insofar as included in the Ayr District of Burghs."
The counties of Ayr and Bute had been covered, previously, by the five constituencies of Ayr Burghs, Buteshire, Kilmarnock Burghs, North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire. Two of these, Ayr Burghs and Kilmarnock Burghs, had included areas (parliamentary burghs) outside the two counties.
Constituency boundaries were redrawn in 1950, creating five constituencies to cover the counties of Ayr and Bute. Ayr Burghs was abolished and two new county constituencies, Ayr and Central Ayrshire, were created. Part of the Kilmarnock constituency was transferred to the new Central Ayrshire constituency.
In 1974, the boundary between the Kilmarnock and Ayrshire Central constituencies was redrawn to enlarge Kilmarnock.
In 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, local government counties were abolished and replaced by a system of regions and districts. The areas of the counties of Ayr and Bute were merged into the Strathclyde region and, thus, the Kilmarnock constituency became one of a number covering the region. Eight years were to elapse before new constituency boundaries took account of new local government boundaries.
In 1983 the Kilmarnock constituency was merged into the Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Liberal | Alexander Shaw | 13,568 | 67.1 | |
Co-operative Party | Peter Malcolm | 6,652 | 32.9 | ||
Majority | 6,916 | 34.2 | |||
Turnout | 20,220 | 62.6 | |||
Registered electors | 32,298 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Alexander Shaw | 12,991 | 54.7 | −12.4 | |
Labour | Robert Climie | 10,752 | 45.3 | New | |
Majority | 2,239 | 9.4 | −24.8 | ||
Turnout | 23,743 | 71.5 | +8.9 | ||
Registered electors | 33,210 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −12.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Robert Climie | 10,992 | 43.2 | −2.1 | |
Liberal | Donald Maclean | 8,185 | 32.1 | −22.6 | |
Unionist | Alexander Morrice Mackay | 6,298 | 24.7 | New | |
Majority | 2,807 | 11.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 25,475 | 75.7 | +4.2 | ||
Registered electors | 33,652 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | +10.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Charles MacAndrew | 14,237 | 52.2 | +27.5 | |
Labour | Robert Climie | 13,054 | 47.8 | +4.6 | |
Majority | 1,183 | 4.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 27,291 | 79.5 | +3.8 | ||
Registered electors | 34,315 | ||||
Unionist gain from Labour | Swing | +11.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Robert Climie | 17,368 | 48.2 | +0.4 | |
Unionist | Charles MacAndrew | 10,939 | 30.4 | −21.8 | |
Liberal | James Rutherford | 7,700 | 21.4 | New | |
Majority | 6,429 | 17.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 36,007 | 77.8 | −1.7 | ||
Registered electors | 46,310 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +11.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Craigie Aitchison | 18,465 | 55.6 | +7.4 | |
Unionist | Charles MacAndrew | 13,270 | 40.0 | +9.6 | |
Communist | Isabel Brown | 1,448 | 4.4 | New | |
Majority | 5,195 | 15.6 | −2.2 | ||
Turnout | 33,183 | 71.7 | −6.1 | ||
Registered electors | 46,310 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | −1.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Labour | Craigie Aitchison | 21,803 | 59.6 | New | |
Ind. Labour Party | John Pollock | 14,767 | 40.4 | New | |
Majority | 7,036 | 19.2 | +3.6 | ||
Turnout | 36,580 | 79.5 | +7.8 | ||
National Labour gain from Labour | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Labour | Kenneth Lindsay | 12,577 | 34.8 | −24.8 | |
Labour | James Barr | 9,924 | 27.4 | New | |
Ind. Labour Party | John Pollock | 7,575 | 20.9 | −19.5 | |
Scottish Party | Alexander MacEwen | 6,098 | 16.9 | New | |
Majority | 2,653 | 7.4 | −11.8 | ||
Turnout | 36,174 | 77.3 | −2.2 | ||
National Labour hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National Labour | Kenneth Lindsay | 19,115 | 50.9 | +16.1 | |
Labour | James Crawford | 12,558 | 33.4 | +6.0 | |
Ind. Labour Party | John Pollock | 3,582 | 9.5 | -11.4 | |
SNP | T. W. Campbell | 2,346 | 6.2 | -10.7 | |
Majority | 6,557 | 17.5 | +10.1 | ||
Turnout | 37,601 | 78.8 | +1.5 | ||
National Labour hold | Swing | +5.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Clarice Shaw | 23,837 | 59.4 | +26.0 | |
Unionist | George E.O. Walker | 16,300 | 40.6 | New | |
Majority | 7,537 | 18.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 40,137 | 76.1 | −2.7 | ||
Labour gain from National Labour | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Willie Ross | 22,456 | 59.7 | +0.3 | |
Unionist | George E.O. Walker | 12,239 | 32.5 | −8.1 | |
SNP | George Dott | 2,932 | 7.8 | New | |
Majority | 10,217 | 27.2 | +8.4 | ||
Turnout | 37,627 | 68.4 | −7.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Willie Ross | 22,412 | 56.58 | -2.80 | |
Unionist | McInnes Shaw | 14,179 | 35.80 | -4.80 | |
Liberal | John Gibson Thomson | 2,157 | 5.45 | New | |
Communist | Isabel Brown | 860 | 2.17 | New | |
Majority | 8,233 | 20.79 | +2.0 | ||
Turnout | 39,608 | 86.15 | +10.1 | ||
Registered electors | 45,974 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Willie Ross | 24,664 | 60.72 | +4.14 | |
Unionist | Norman Macleod Glen | 15,955 | 39.28 | +3.48 | |
Majority | 8,709 | 21.44 | +0.65 | ||
Turnout | 40,619 | 86.66 | +0.51 | ||
Registered electors | 46,869 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.33 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Willie Ross | 23,324 | 60.89 | +0.17 | |
Unionist | John Sutherland[10] | 14,983 | 39.11 | -0.17 | |
Majority | 8,341 | 21.78 | +0.34 | ||
Turnout | 38,307 | 81.07 | -5.59 | ||
Registered electors | 47,254 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.17 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Willie Ross | 25,379 | 62.72 | +1.83 | |
Unionist | R Ian McNaught | 15,087 | 37.28 | -1.83 | |
Majority | 10,292 | 25.44 | +3.66 | ||
Turnout | 40,466 | 82.43 | +1.36 | ||
Registered electors | 49,090 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.83 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Willie Ross | 25,173 | 62.29 | -0.43 | |
Unionist | Graham H Webster[13] | 10,796 | 26.71 | -10.57 | |
Liberal | Ian M Will | 4,443 | 10.99 | New | |
Majority | 14,377 | 35.58 | +10.16 | ||
Turnout | 40,412 | 82.77 | +0.34 | ||
Registered electors | 48,824 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +5.04 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Willie Ross | 26,036 | 68.54 | +6.25 | |
Conservative | Albert McQuarrie | 11,949 | 31.46 | +4.75 | |
Majority | 14,087 | 37.08 | +1.50 | ||
Turnout | 37,985 | 79.02 | -3.75 | ||
Registered electors | 48,073 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.75 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Willie Ross | 24,477 | 59.3 | -9.2 | |
Conservative | G Law | 11,476 | 27.8 | -3.6 | |
SNP | Alistair MacInnes | 2,836 | 6.9 | New | |
Liberal | Archibald James Wight | 2,459 | 6.0 | New | |
Majority | 13,001 | 31.52 | -5.6 | ||
Turnout | 41,248 | 79.1 | 0.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Willie Ross | 23,544 | 47.20 | -12.14 | |
Conservative | Kenneth Alexander Ross | 13,817 | 27.70 | -0.12 | |
SNP | Alistair MacInnes | 7,644 | 15.32 | +7.44 | |
Liberal | Archibald James Wight | 4,878 | 9.78 | +3.82 | |
Majority | 9,727 | 19.50 | -12.02 | ||
Turnout | 49,883 | 83.25 | +3.19 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Willie Ross | 22,184 | 45.69 | -1.51 | |
SNP | Alistair MacInnes | 14,655 | 30.19 | +14.86 | |
Conservative | William Adams | 9,203 | 18.96 | -8.74 | |
Liberal | Kevin Purcell | 2,508 | 5.17 | -4.61 | |
Majority | 7,529 | 15.50 | -4.00 | ||
Turnout | 48,550 | 80.41 | -2.84 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -8.18 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William McKelvey | 25,718 | 52.56 | +6.87 | |
Conservative | John Corbett | 14,251 | 29.12 | +10.17 | |
SNP | Alistair MacInnes | 8,963 | 18.32 | -11.87 | |
Majority | 11,467 | 23.44 | +7.93 | ||
Turnout | 48,932 | 81.08 | +0.67 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.65 |