Forfar (UK Parliament constituency)

Forfarshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Forfarshire
1708–1950
Number of members	One
Replaced by	North Angus & Mearns South Angus
Created from	Forfarshire

Forfarshire was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of Great Britain of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1800, and then in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until 1950.

It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.

Boundaries

The Representation of the People Act 1918 defined the constituency as consisting of the county of Forfar, except the county of the city of Dundee and the burghs of Montrose, Arbroath, Brechin, and Forfar. The four excepted burghs formed part of the Montrose District of Burghs.^[1]

The county of Forfarshire was renamed Angus in 1928.^[2] However, no change was made in the name of the constituency prior to its abolition.

Redistribution

The constituency was abolished under the Representation of the People Act 1948, which reorganised parliamentary boundaries throughout the United Kingdom. The seat was divided between North Angus and Mearns (which also included Kincardineshire) and South Angus.^[3] The new constituencies were first contested in the 1950 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member ^[4]	Party
	1708	John Carnegie (expelled)
	1716 by-election	James Scott
	1733 by-election	Robert Scott
	1734	Thomas Lyon, later Earl of Strathmore
	1735 by-election	William Maule, Earl Panmure (from 1743)
	1782 by-election	Archibald Douglas	Tory
	1790	David Scott
	1796 by-election	William Maule, later Baron Panmure
	1796	Sir David Carnegie
	1805 by-election	William Maule, later Baron Panmure
	1831 by-election	Donald Ogilvy (Unseated on petition Jan 1832)
	January 1832	Lord Douglas Gordon Hallyburton
	1841	Lord John Frederick Gordon-Hallyburton
	1852	Lauderdale Maule
	1854 by-election	Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan, later Earl of Camperdown
	1860 by-election	Charles Carnegie	Liberal
	1872 by-election	James William Barclay	Liberal
	1886	James William Barclay	Liberal Unionist
	1892	Sir John Rigby, QC	Liberal
	1894	Charles Maule Ramsay Conservative	Liberal Unionist
	1895	J. Martin White	Liberal
	1897 by-election	John Sinclair, later Baron Pentland	Liberal
	1909 by-election	James Falconer	Liberal
	1918	William Thomas Shaw	Unionist
	1922	James Falconer	Liberal
	1924	Sir Harry Hope	Unionist
	1931	William Thomas Shaw	Unionist
	1945	Simon Ramsay, later Earl of Dalhousie	Unionist
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

At the 1880 General Election, James William Barclay was elected unopposed.^[5]

General Election 1885: Forfarshire ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	James William Barclay	6,157	76.9
	Conservative	William Alexander Lindsay	1,851	23.1
Majority			4,306	53.8
Turnout				71.3
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1886: Forfarshire ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Unionist	James William Barclay	3,839	52.8	n/a
	Liberal	David Charles Guthrie	3,432	47.2	-29.7
Majority			407	5.6	-48.2
Turnout				64.7
	Liberal Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Forfarshire ^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	John Rigby	4,943	54.8	+7.6
	Liberal Unionist	James William Barclay	4,077	45.2	-7.6
Majority					15.2
Turnout				79.8	+15.1
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	+7.6

Forfarshire by-election, 1894^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Hon. Charles Maule Ramsay	5,145	51.4	+6.2
	Liberal	Henry Robson	4,859	48.6	-6.2
Majority			286	2.8
Turnout				83.3
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+6.2

General Election 1895: Forfarshire ^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	James Martin White	5,159	52.2	+3.6
	Conservative	Hon. Charles Maule Ramsay	4,718	47.8	-3.6
Majority			441	4.4	7.2
Turnout				82.2	-1.1
	Liberal gain from Liberal Unionist		Swing	+3.6

John Sinclair

Forfar by-election, 1897^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	John Sinclair	5,423	52.2	+0.0
	Conservative	Hon. Charles Maule Ramsay	4,965	47.8	-0.0
Majority			458	4.4	0.0
Turnout				85.1
	Liberal hold		Swing	+0.0

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Forfarshire ^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	John Sinclair	4,962	51.3	-0.9
	Conservative	Hon. Charles Maule Ramsay	4,714	48.7	+0.9
Majority			248	2.6	-1.8
Turnout				78.6	-6.5
	Liberal hold		Swing	-0.9

General Election 1906: Forfarshire ^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Rt Hon. John Sinclair	6,796	67.5	+16.2
	Liberal Unionist	J. Mackay Bernard	3,277	32.5	-16.2
Majority			3,519	35.0	+32.4
Turnout				79.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	+16.2

James Falconer

Forfarshire by-election, 1909^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	James Falconer	6,422	61.8	-5.7
	Conservative	Robert Leslie Blackburn	3,970	38.2	+5.7
Majority			2,452	23.6	-11.4
Turnout				81.3
	Liberal hold		Swing	-5.7

Elections in the 1910s

General Election January 1910: Forfarshire ^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	James Falconer	6,789	61.3
	Conservative	Robert Leslie Blackburn	4,284	38.7
Majority			2,505	21.4
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

General Election December 1910: Forfarshire ^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	James Falconer	6,449	59.5	-1.8
	Conservative	James B Duncan	4,397	40.5	+1.8
Majority			2,052	19.0	-3.6
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing	-1.8

General Election 1918^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Capt. William Thomas Shaw	5,697	52.4	+11.9
	Liberal	James Falconer	5,179	47.6	-11.9
Majority			518	4.8	23.8
Turnout				44.2
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+11.9

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	James Falconer	8,567	54.8	+7.2
	Unionist	William Thomas Shaw	7,071	45.2	-7.2
Majority			1,396	9.6	14.4
Turnout				65.0	+20.8
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	+7.2

General Election 1923^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	James Falconer	7,605	52.9	-1.9
	Unionist	William Thomas Shaw	6,758	47.1	+1.9
Majority			847	5.8	-3.8
Turnout				60.3	-4.7
	Liberal hold		Swing	-1.9

General Election 1924^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Harry Hope	8,022	49.1
	Liberal	James Falconer	4,581	28.0
	Labour	Charles N. Gallie	3,736	22.9	n/a
Majority			3,441	21.1
Turnout				68.3
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1929: Forfarshire ^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Harry Hope	8,852	42.2	-6.9
	Liberal	William Scott	6,901	32.8	+4.8
	Labour	Charles N. Gallie	5,257	25.0	+2.1
Majority			1,951	9.4	-11.7
Turnout				70.7	+2.4
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	William Thomas Shaw	13,912	61.4
	Liberal	William Scott	8,731	38.6
Majority			5,181	22.8
Turnout				75.2
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1935^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	William Thomas Shaw	13,505	60.2
	Liberal	William Scott	8,922	39.8
Majority			4,583	20.4
Turnout				71.5
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939/40:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

Unionist: William Thomas Shaw
Liberal:

General Election 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Unionist	Hon. Simon Ramsay	13,615	51.6
	Labour	E Douglas	8,199	31.1
	Liberal	Charles Philip Fothergill	4,575	17.3
Majority			5,416	20.5
Turnout				69.1
	Unionist hold		Swing

References

↑ Representation of the People Act 1918, Ninth Schedule, Part II, Parliamentary Counties in Scotland
↑ "Angus - What's in a name". Angus Council. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
↑ Representation of the People Act 1948, First Schedule, Parliamentary Constituencies, Part III: Scotland
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "F"
↑ The Times, April 1880.
1 2 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
↑ "Election Intelligence: Forfarshire". The Times. 20 November 1894. p. 6.
1 2 3 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
↑ The Times, 2 March 1909 p8
1 2 Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench illustrated with 500 armorial engravings (PDF). London: Dean & Son. 1918. p. 221. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
↑ The Times, 17 November 1922
↑ The Times, 8 December 1923
↑ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
↑ The Times, 1 June 1929
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939

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