Partick (UK Parliament constituency)

This article is about the 1885–1918 county constituency. For the 1918–1950 burgh constituency, see Glasgow Partick (UK Parliament constituency).

Partick
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Lanarkshire
1885–1918
Seats	One
Created from	North Lanarkshire
Replaced by	Glasgow Partick

Partick was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1918.

A division of the county of Lanarkshire, its territory was incorporated into the city of Glasgow in the 1890s. For the 1918 general election, it was largely replaced by the new Glasgow Partick constituency, a division of the city of Glasgow.

Boundaries

From 1885 the constituency consisted of "So much of the Parish of Govan as lies north of the Clyde and beyond the present boundary of the municipal burgh of Glasgow, and so much of the parish of Barony as lies to the west of the present main line of railway between Glasgow and Edinburgh of the North British Railway Company (being the old Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) and beyond the present boundary of the municipal burgh of Glasgow."[1]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [2]	Party
	1885	Alexander Craig Sellar	Liberal
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	1890	James Parker Smith	Liberal Unionist
	1906	Sir Robert Balfour	Liberal
	1906	Constituency abolished. See Glasgow Partick

Elections

Decades:

1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1885: Partick [3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alexander Craig Sellar	3,726	51.9
	Conservative	Henry Lennox	3,385	47.1
	Scottish Land Restoration	John Murdoch	74	1.0
Majority			341	4.8
Turnout			7,185	80.3
Registered electors			8,945
	Liberal win (new seat)

General election 1886: Partick [3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Alexander Craig Sellar	3,745	56.0	+8.9
	Liberal	Robert Allan McLean	2,944	44.0	−7.9
Majority			801	12.0	N/A
Turnout			6,689	74.8	−5.5
Registered electors			8,945
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+8.4

Elections in the 1890s

1890 Partick by-election[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	James Parker Smith	4,148	51.4	−4.6
	Liberal	Charles Tennant	3,929	48.6	+4.6
Majority			219	2.8	−9.2
Turnout			8,077	85.7	+10.9
Registered electors			9,429
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	−4.6

Tennant

General election 1892: Partick [5][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	James Parker Smith	5,005	53.9	−2.1
	Liberal	Edward Tennant	4,278	46.1	+2.1
Majority			727	7.8	−4.2
Turnout			9,283	81.1	+6.3
Registered electors			11,453
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	−2.1

General election 1895: Partick [6][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	James Parker Smith	5,551	56.1	+2.2
	Liberal	William Lyon Mackenzie (Scottish advocate)	4,344	43.9	−2.2
Majority			1,207	12.2	+4.4
Turnout			9,895	75.2	−5.9
Registered electors			13,152
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	+2.2

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Partick [6][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	James Parker Smith	6,950	59.6	+3.5
	Liberal	Robert Lambie	4,717	40.4	−3.5
Majority			2,233	19.2	+7.0
Turnout			11,657	73.3	−1.9
Registered electors			15,921
	Liberal Unionist hold		Swing	+3.5

Balfour

General election 1906: Partick [7][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Balfour	9,477	54.3	+13.9
	Liberal Unionist	James Parker Smith	7,960	45.7	−13.9
Majority			1,517	8.6	N/A
Turnout			17,437	81.4	+8.1
Registered electors			21,411
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	+13.9

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Partick [8][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Balfour	10,093	51.5	−2.8
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald White Maconochie	9,522	48.5	+2.8
Majority			571	3.0	−5.6
Turnout			19,615	84.2	+2.8
	Liberal hold		Swing	-2.8

General election December 1910: Partick [8][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Balfour	10,535	50.8	−0.7
	Liberal Unionist	Archibald White Maconochie	10,190	49.2	+0.7
Majority			345	1.6	−1.4
Turnout			20,715	84.2	0.0
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.7

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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Liberal: Robert Balfour
• Unionist: Robert Horne[9]

References

1. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885
2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
3. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
4. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 550. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
5. Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
6. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
7. Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
8. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
9. Daily Record 5 Mar 1914