Mid_Lanarkshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Mid Lanarkshire
Mid Lanarkshire
Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	county of Lanark
1885–1918
Seats	One
Created from	South Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire
Replaced by	Hamilton, Rutherglen, Lanark

Mid Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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.

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Election		Member^[2]	Party
	1885	Stephen Mason	Liberal
	1888 by-election	John Philipps, later Viscount St Davids	Liberal
	1894 by-election	James Caldwell	Liberal
	Jan. 1910	John Howard Whitehouse	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Stephen Mason	2,875	39.0
	Conservative	William Robert Bousfield	2,579	35.0
	Independent Liberal	John Clark Forrest	1,913	26.0
Majority			296	4.0
Turnout			7,367	82.4
Registered electors			8,939
	Liberal win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Stephen Mason	3,779	56.5	+17.5
	Liberal Unionist	James Widrington Shand-Harvey	2,909	43.5	+8.5
Majority			870	13.0	+9.0
Turnout			6,688	74.8	−7.6
Registered electors			8,939
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Philipps	3,847	52.1	-4.4
	Conservative	William Robert Bousfield	2,917	39.5	-4.0
	Independent Labour	Keir Hardie	617	8.4	New
Majority			930	12.6	-0.4
Turnout			7,381	80.7	+5.9
Registered electors			9,143
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Philipps	4,611	56.9	+0.4
	Conservative	Robert Edward Stuart Harington-Stuart^[6]	3,489	43.1	-0.4
Majority			1,122	13.8	+0.8
Turnout			8,100	77.2	+2.4
Registered electors			10,496
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.4

Mid Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Mid Lanarkshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	county of Lanark
1885–1918
Seats	One
Created from	South Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire
Replaced by	Hamilton, Rutherglen, Lanark

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Caldwell	3,965	45.0	-11.9
	Liberal Unionist	Robert Edward Stuart Harington-Stuart	3,635	41.2	-1.9
	Scottish Labour	Robert Smillie	1,221	13.8	New
Majority			330	3.8	-10.0
Turnout			8,821	78.1	+0.9
Registered electors			11,294
	Liberal hold		Swing	-5.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Caldwell	4,447	50.4	−6.5
	Conservative	Charles Kincaid MacKenzie	4,376	49.6	+6.5
Majority			71	0.8	−13.0
Turnout			8,823	77.4	+0.2
Registered electors			11,392
	Liberal hold		Swing	−6.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Caldwell	5,267	50.9	+0.5
	Conservative	Charles Kincaid MacKenzie	5,075	49.1	−0.5
Majority			192	1.8	+1.0
Turnout			10,342	79.6	+2.2
Registered electors			12,998
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Caldwell	7,246	58.1	+7.2
	Conservative	Duncan Campbell	4,470	35.8	−13.3
	Musical Copyright Association	A.S. Gibson	758	6.1	New
Majority			2,776	22.3	+20.5
Turnout			12,474	81.1	+1.5
Registered electors			15,375
	Liberal hold		Swing	+10.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Howard Whitehouse	5,792	38.4	-19.7
	Conservative	John Johnson Pickering	5,401	35.9	+0.1
	Labour	Robert Smillie	3,864	25.7	New
Majority			391	2.5	-19.8
Turnout			15,057	84.6	+3.5
Registered electors			18,484
	Liberal hold		Swing	-9.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Howard Whitehouse	6,033	38.7	+0.3
	Conservative	Henry Keith	5,702	36.6	+0.7
	Labour	Robert Smillie	3,847	24.7	-1.0
Majority			331	2.1	-0.4
Turnout			15,582	84.3	-0.3
Registered electors			18,484
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.2