Galloway (UK Parliament constituency)

Galloway
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
Created from	Dumfries Burghs, Kirkcudbright Stewartry and Wigtownshire

Galloway was a county constituency in the Galloway area of Scotland. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system.

It was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Gilbert McMicking	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	Liberal
	1924	Sir Arthur Henniker-Hughan, Bt.	Unionist
	1925 by-election	Sidney Richard Streatfeild	Unionist
	1929	Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	Liberal
	1931	Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	New Party
	1931	John Mackie	Unionist
	1959	John Brewis	Unionist
	Oct 1974	George Thompson	SNP
	1979	Ian Lang	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

G. McMicking

General Election 1918: Galloway ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Major Gilbert McMicking	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Liberal win

endorsed by Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Galloway ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	12,406	54.0	N/A
	Unionist	Rt Hon. William Watson	10,557	46.0	N/A
Majority			1,849	8.0	N/A
Turnout				77.5	N/A
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1923: Galloway ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1924: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir Arthur John Henniker-Hughan	12,268	53.1	N/A
	Liberal	Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	10,852	46.9	N/A
Majority			1,416	6.2	N/A
Turnout				76.8	N/A
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

Galloway by-election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sidney Richard Streatfeild	10,846	43.5	−9.6
	Liberal	Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	9,918	39.7	−9.2
	Labour	J. Mitchell	4,207	16.8	N/A
Majority			928	3.8	−2.4
Turnout				83.3	+6.5
	Unionist hold		Swing	−

General Election 1929: Galloway^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	13,461	42.4	+2.7
	Unionist	Sidney Richard Streatfeild	13,360	42.1	-1.4
	Labour	Hector McNeill	4,903	15.5	-1.3
Majority			101	0.3	4.1
Turnout				80.1	-3.2
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	+2.1

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Galloway^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Unionist	John Hamilton Mackie	18,993	58.3
Liberal	Edward Maitland Campbell	9,176	28.2
Labour	Hector McNeil	3,418	10.5
New Party	Cecil Randolph Dudgeon	986	3.0	n/a
Unionist gain from New Party		Swing	+2.1

General Election 1935: Galloway ^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	John Hamilton Mackie	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

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: John Mackie

General Election 1945: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent Unionist	John Hamilton Mackie	13,647	40.74
	Labour	Robert N Hales	11,822	35.29
	Unionist	B Fergusson	8,032	23.98
Majority			1,825	5.45
Turnout				70.07
	Independent Unionist gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	John Hamilton Mackie	19,136	65.55
	Labour	Alan Eric Thompson	10,056	34.45
Majority			9,080	31.10	-
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	John Hamilton Mackie	16,261	61.63
	Labour	Alan Eric Thompson	6,949	26.34
	Liberal	Robert Tordiff Johnston	3,174	12.03
Majority			9,312	35.29	-
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	John Hamilton Mackie	15,893	66.86
	Labour	William S Gray	7,879	33.14
Majority			8,014	33.71	-
	Unionist hold		Swing

Galloway by-election, 1959
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Henry John Beverley Brewis	13,204	49.93	-16.41
	Liberal	Simon Brooke Mackay	6,721	25.42	N/A
	Labour	W Cross	6,520	24.65	-9.26
Majority			6,483
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Henry John Beverley Brewis	15,454	56.29
	Liberal	Simon Brooke Mackay	6,412	23.35
	Labour	James Pickett	5,590	20.36
Majority			9,042	32.93	-
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Henry John Beverley Brewis	14,530	52.74
	Liberal	Simon Brooke Mackay	6,619	24.03
	Labour	JP Gordon	6,401	23.23
Majority			7,911	28.72	-
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1966: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Henry John Beverley Brewis	15,137	61.99
	Labour	D Douglas	9,283	38.01
Majority			5,854	23.97
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Henry John Beverley Brewis	14,003	50.28
	SNP	Arthur William Donaldson	5,723	20.55
	Labour	D Douglas	5,665	20.34
	Liberal	CBH Scott	2,461	8.84
Majority			8,280	29.73	-
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Henry John Beverley Brewis	13,316	43.86
	SNP	George Henry Thompson	9,308	30.66
	Labour	DR Hannay	4,643	15.29
	Liberal	H Chalmers	3,091	10.18
Majority			4,008	13.20	-
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	George Henry Thompson	12,242	40.30
	Conservative	Kenneth Alexander Ross	12,212	40.20
	Liberal	DR Hannay	3,181	10.47
	Labour	TG Fulton	2,742	9.03
Majority			30	0.10	-
	SNP gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1979: Galloway
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Ian Bruce Lang	15,306	45.85
	SNP	George Henry Thompson	12,384	37.10
	Liberal	DR Hannay	2,852	8.54
	Labour	DD Johnston	2,841	8.51
Majority			2,922	8.75	-
	Conservative gain from SNP		Swing

References

↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
↑ The Times, 17 November 1922
↑ The Times, 8 December 1923
↑ The Times, 1 June 1929
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939

Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)

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