Glasgow Tradeston (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Tradeston
Former constituency Unknown parliament uk 150px File:Lanarkshire constituencies 1950–1955.svg.
Subdivisions of Scotland	City of Glasgow
1885 (1885)–1955 (1955)
Created from	Glasgow

Glasgow Tradeston was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1955. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.

Boundaries

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the constituency was to consist of the fifteenth and sixteenth Municipal Wards.

In 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the centre of Glasgow Bridge at the centre line of the River Clyde, thence southward along the centre line of Glasgow Bridge, Bridge Street and Eglinton Street to the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway at Eglinton Street Station, thence westward along the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway (Paisley Canal Line) to the centre line of Shields Road, thence northwards along the centre line of Shields Road to the centre line of the Caledonian Railway, thence westward along the centre line of the said Caledonian Railway and the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway to a point in line with the centre line of Church Road, thence northward along the centre line of Church Road, Whitefield Road, and the portion of Govan Road to the west of Princes Dock and continuation thereof to the centre line of the River Clyde, thence eastward along the centre line of the River Clyde to the point of commencement."

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Archibald Cameron Corbett, later Baron Rowallan	Liberal
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	January 1910		Independent Liberal
	December 1910		Liberal
	1911	James Dundas White	Liberal
	1918	Vivian Leonard Henderson	Unionist
	1922	Thomas Henderson	Labour Co-operative
	1931	William Hannah McLean	Unionist
	1935	Thomas Henderson	Labour Co-operative
	1945	John Rankin	Labour Co-operative
1955		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Archibald Cameron Corbett	4,354		n/a
	Conservative	James Somervell	3,240		n/a
	Scottish Land Restoration	Wallace McGuffin Greaves	86		n/a
Majority					n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Liberal win

General Election 1886: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald Cameron Corbett	3,878		n/a
	Liberal	Prof J.M.D. Mieklejohn	3,174		n/a
Majority					n/a
Turnout
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1890s

James Caldwell

General Election 1892: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald Cameron Corbett	3,366
	Liberal	James Caldwell	3,197
	Scottish Labour	Bennet Burleigh	783		n/a
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1895: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald Cameron Corbett	3,373
	Liberal	George Green	2,568
	Ind. Labour Party	Francis Samuel Smith	468
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald Cameron Corbett	4,389
	Liberal	William Maxwell	2,785
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1906: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald Cameron Corbett	4,416	50.6
	Liberal	David Marshall Mason	4,063	46.6
	Independent Unionist	A. Rosenthal	245	2.8	n/a
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing

• pro-Free Trade

Elections in the 1910s

David Mason

General Election Jan 1910: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	Archibald Cameron Corbett	2,966
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald Pollock Main	2,773
	Liberal	David Marshall Mason	2,673
Majority
Turnout
	Independent Liberal hold		Swing

General Election Dec 1910: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Archibald Cameron Corbett	4,811	60.5
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald Pollock Main	3,137	39.5
Majority				21.0
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

Glasgow Tradeston by-election, 1911

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Dundas White	3,869
	Conservative	John Henry Watts	1,086
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 14 December 1918: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Lt-Col. Vivian Leonard Henderson	12,250
	British Socialist Party	James Dunlop MacDougall	3,751		n/a
	Liberal	James Dundas White	3,369
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

• endorsed by coalition government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Henderson	14,190	55.7
	Unionist	Vivian Leonard Henderson	9,977	39.2
	Liberal	Charles de Bois Murray	1,310	5.1
Majority			4,213	16.5
Turnout			25,477
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

General Election 1923: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Henderson	12,787
	Liberal	Douglas Macdonald	8,479
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1924: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Henderson	14,067
	Liberal	Douglas Macdonald	11,074
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Henderson	17,864	58.7
	Unionist	Ingram Spencer	12,592	41.3	n/a
Majority			5,272	17.3
Turnout			30,456
	Labour hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	William Hannah MacLean	15,067
	Labour	Thomas Henderson	13,579
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935: Glasgow Tradeston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Thomas Henderson	12,253
	Unionist	William Hannah MacLean	10,354
	Ind. Labour Party	James Carmichael	3,423
Majority
Turnout
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing