Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918–1983
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 .
Boundaries [ edit ]
1918 to 1950 [ edit ]
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.
1950 to 1974 [ edit ]
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.
1974 to 1975 [ edit ]
In 1974, the boundary between the Kilmarnock and Ayrshire Central constituencies was redrawn to enlarge Kilmarnock.
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1975 to 1983 [ edit ]
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.
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Members of Parliament [ edit ]
Election results [ edit ]
Elections in the 1910s [ edit ]
Alexander Shaw
Elections in the 1920s [ edit ]
Sir Donald Maclean
Elections in the 1930s [ edit ]
Elections in the 1940s [ edit ]
Elections in the 1950s [ edit ]
Elections in the 1960s [ edit ]
Elections in the 1970s [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
^ The Times, 17 November 1922
^ The Times, 8 December 1923
^ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
^ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1950" . Political Science Resources . Retrieved 17 April 2016 .
^ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1951" . Political Science Resources . Retrieved 17 April 2016 .
^ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1955" . Political Science Resources . Retrieved 17 April 2016 .
^ "Unionist Choice in Kilmarnock - Mr John Sutherland" . The Herald . Vol. 171, no. 235. Glasgow. 2 October 1953. p. 6. Retrieved 17 April 2016 .
^ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1959" . Political Science Resources . Retrieved 17 April 2016 .
^ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1964" . Political Science Resources . Retrieved 17 April 2016 .
^ "Unionist Choice for Kilmarnock - Mr Graham Webster" . The Herald . Vol. 181, no. 260. Glasgow. 26 November 1963. p. 11. Retrieved 17 April 2016 .
^ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1966" . Political Science Resources . Retrieved 17 April 2016 .
^ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1970" . Political Science Resources . Archived from the original on 29 June 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2016 .
^ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results February 1974" . Political Science Resources . Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016 .
^ a b c " 'Kilmarnock', Feb 1974 - May 1983" . ElectionWeb Project . Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2016 .
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1977
^ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results October 1974" . Political Science Resources . Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2016 .
^ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1979" . Political Science Resources . Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 23 March 2016 .
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