Glasgow Queen's Park (UK Parliament constituency)
| Glasgow Queen's Park | |
|---|---|
| Former Glasgow Rutherglen Glasgow Cathcart |
Glasgow Queen's Park was a short-lived
first-past-the-post
voting system
Boundaries
The County of the City of Glasgow wards of Gorbals, Govanhill, and Hutchesontown, and part of Langside ward.
The constituency covered part of inner city Glasgow, to the south of the River Clyde and in the south-west of the city.
Before the February 1974 general election, the area had formed the major part of Glasgow Gorbals (Gorbals, Hutchesontown and part of Govanhill wards) and part of Glasgow Cathcart (the rest of Govanhill and Langside wards).[1]
In the 1983 redistribution, this constituency disappeared. 675 voters (2.0% of its electorate) were transferred to Glasgow Cathcart, 27,528 electors became part of
Glasgow Rutherglen.[2]
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1974 | Frank McElhone | Labour | Previously MP for Glasgow Gorbals from 1969 by-election. Died September 1982 | |
| 1982 by-election | Helen McElhone | Labour | ||
| 1983 | constituency abolished | |||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Frank McElhone | 15,883 | 56.2 | ||
| Conservative | William Shearer | 7,517 | 26.6 | ||
| SNP | David Graham MacKellar | 4,394 | 15.6 | ||
| Communist | John Robert Kay | 372 | 1.3 | ||
| International Marxist | Robert McGoven Purdie | 90 | 0.3 | ||
| Majority | 8,366 | 29.6 | |||
| Turnout | 28,256 | 73.3 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Registered electors | 38,567 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Frank McElhone | 14,574 | 56.1 | -0.1 | |
| SNP | David Graham MacKellar | 5,660 | 21.8 | +6.2 | |
| Conservative | Iain David MacKinnon | 4,421 | 17.0 | -9.6 | |
| Liberal | Moira Hughes Aitchison | 966 | 3.7 | New | |
| Communist | John Robert Kay | 354 | 1.4 | +0.1 | |
| Majority | 8,914 | 34.3 | +4.7 | ||
| Turnout | 25,975 | 67.0 | -6.3 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Registered electors | 38,776 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Frank McElhone | 15,120 | 64.4 | +8.3 | |
| Conservative | Julius Collins | 5,642 | 24.0 | +7.0 | |
| SNP | Philip Greene | 2,276 | 9.7 | -12.1 | |
| Communist | John Robert Kay | 263 | 1.1 | -0.3 | |
| Workers Revolutionary | Jean Kerrigan | 99 | 0.4 | New | |
| Socialist Unity | Walter MacLellan | 92 | 0.4 | New | |
| Majority | 9,478 | 40.4 | +6.1 | ||
| Turnout | 23,492 | 68.4 | +1.4 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +0.7 | |||
| Registered electors | 34,332 | ||||
- Death of Frank McElhone
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Helen McElhone | 8,851 | 56.0 | -8.4 | |
| SNP | Peter Mallan | 3,157 | 20.0 | +10.3 | |
| Conservative | Jackson Carlaw | 1,888 | 12.0 | -12.0 | |
| Liberal | Graham Watson | 1,487 | 9.4 | New | |
| Communist | John Robert Kay | 339 | 2.1 | +1.0 | |
Independent
|
John Connell | 40 | 0.3 | New | |
Scottish Republican Socialist
|
Alistair H. Tennent | 39 | 0.2 | New | |
| Majority | 5,694 | 36.0 | -4.4 | ||
| Turnout | 15,701 | 47.0 | -21.4 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -9.4 | |||
| Registered electors | 33,641 | ||||
References
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1974-1983, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1984).
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "Q"