Berwick and Haddington (UK Parliament constituency)
Berwick and Haddington | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Berwickshire, East Lothian |
1918–1950 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Berwick and East Lothian |
Berwick and Haddington was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918, when it replaced the separate Berwickshire and Haddingtonshire constiuencies, until it was renamed Berwick and East Lothian for the 1950 general election. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.
The constituency covered the counties of Berwickshire and East Lothian.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | John Deans Hope | Coalition Liberal | |
1922 | Walter Waring | National Liberal | |
1923 | Robert Spence | Labour | |
1924 | Chichester de Windt Crookshank | Unionist | |
1929 | George Sinkinson | Labour | |
1931 | John McEwen | Unionist | |
1945 | John James Robertson | Labour | |
1950 | constituency abolished |
Election results
Elections in the 1910s
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Harold Tennant
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Coalition Liberal | 8,584 | n/a | |||
Labour | R.W. Foulis | 4,783 | n/a | ||
Liberal | Rt Hon. Harold John Tennant | 2,567 | n/a | ||
Majority | n/a | ||||
Turnout | n/a | ||||
Coalition Liberal win | |||||
- endorsed by the Coalition Government.
Elections in the 1920s
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Walter Waring
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J.D. Hope
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
National Liberal | Walter Waring | 6,342 | 31.9 | ||
Labour | Robert Spence | 5,842 | 29.3 | ||
Liberal | William Henderson Pringle | 4,422 | 22.2 | ||
Independent Liberal | John Deans Hope | 3,300 | 16.6 | ||
Majority | 500 | 2.6 | |||
Turnout | 19,906 | ||||
National Liberal hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Spence | 8,576 | |||
Unionist | Chichester de Windt Crookshank | 8,508 | n/a | ||
Liberal | Walter Waring | 6,084 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Labour gain from National Liberal | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Chichester de Windt Crookshank | 11,745 | 45.9 | ||
Labour | Robert Spence | 8,882 | 34.7 | ||
Liberal | William Henderson Pringle | 4,986 | 19.5 | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 25,613 | ||||
Unionist gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
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Sir James Greig
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Sinkinson | 11,761 | 37.5 | +2.8 | |
Unionist | John Helias Finnie McEwen | 11,435 | 36.5 | -9.4 | |
Liberal | Sir James William Greig | 8,132 | 26.0 | +6.5 | |
Majority | 1.0 | 12.2 | |||
Turnout | 31,328 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +6.1 | |||
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | John Helias Finnie McEwen | 25,169 | 73.5 | ||
Labour | George Sinkinson | 9,089 | 26.5 | ||
Majority | 16,080 | 46.9 | |||
Turnout | 34,258 | 74.8 | |||
Unionist gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | John Helias Finnie McEwen | 19,839 | 58.1 | ||
Labour | John James Robertson | 14,299 | 41.9 | ||
Majority | 5,540 | 16.2 | |||
Turnout | 34,138 | 71.9 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1939/40
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
- Unionist: John Helias Finnie McEwen
- Labour: John James Robertson [8]
- Liberal: [9]
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John James Robertson | 19,037 | 54.52 | ||
Unionist | John Helias Finnie McEwen | 15,880 | 45.48 | ||
Majority | 3,157 | 9.04 | |||
Turnout | 34,917 | 70.51 | |||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | ||||
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
- ↑ The Liberal Magazine, 1939
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
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