Glasgow College (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow College
Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons
Major settlements	Glasgow
1885–1918
Number of members	One
Created from	Glasgow

Glasgow College was a parliamentary constituency in Glasgow. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the plurality voting system.

History

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

Boundaries

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of the Tenth and Eleventh Municipal Wards. ^[1]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Charles Cameron	Liberal
	1895	Sir John Stirling-Maxwell	Conservative
	1906	Henry Anderson Watt	Liberal
1918		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Glasgow College ^[2][3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Charles Cameron	5,662		n/a
	Conservative	Sir William James Montgomery-Cuninghame	4,139		n/a
Majority			1,523		n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Liberal win (new seat)

General Election 1886: Glasgow College ^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Charles Cameron	4,880
	Liberal Unionist	Richard Vary Campbell	4,225
Majority			655
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Glasgow College ^[6][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Charles Cameron	5,804
	Conservative	Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell	4,758
	Scottish Trades Councils	Robert Brodie	225
Majority			1,046
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

Stirling-Maxwell

General Election 1895: Glasgow College ^[8][9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell	5,364
	Liberal	Sir Charles Cameron	4,219
Majority			1,145
Turnout
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Glasgow College ^[10][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell	6,629
	Liberal	Robert Paterson	5,160
Majority			1,459
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

Watt

General Election 1906: Glasgow College ^[12][13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Henry Anderson Watt	7,359	56.5
	Conservative	Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell	5,676	43.5
Majority			1,683
Turnout
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Glasgow College ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Henry Anderson Watt	6,525
	Conservative	Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell	5,823
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: Glasgow College ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Henry Anderson Watt	6,291
	Conservative	Ralph George Campbell Glyn	5,932
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

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;

• Liberal: Henry Anderson Watt
• Unionist:

References

1. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule
2. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
3. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
4. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
5. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
6. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
7. Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
8. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
9. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
10. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
11. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
12. The Liberal Year Book, 1907
13. Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
14. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
15. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 5)