Rutherglen (UK Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Glasgow Rutherglen (Scottish Parliament constituency).

Glasgow Rutherglen
Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons
1918–2005
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Rutherglen and Hamilton West Glasgow Central Glasgow South

Rutherglen (from 1983, Glasgow Rutherglen) was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 2005. From 2005, most of the area is represented by Rutherglen and Hamilton West, while a small portion is now in Glasgow Central and Glasgow South.

Boundaries

1918-1945: "The burgh of Rutherglen and the parts of the Lower Ward and Middle Ward County Districts which are contained within the parishes of Carmunnock, Cambuslang, and Blantyre, and the extra-burghal portion of the parish of Rutherglen."

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Adam Keir Rodger	Coalition Liberal
	1922	William Wright	Labour
	1931 by-election	David Hardie	Labour
	1931	Herbert James Moss	Conservative
	1935	Allan Chapman	Conservative
	1945	Gilbert McAllister	Labour
	1951	Richard Brooman-White	Conservative
	1964 by-election	Gregor Mackenzie	Labour
	1987	Tommy McAvoy	Labour
2005		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1918: Rutherglen ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	±
	Liberal	Adam Keir Rodger	12,641	n/a
	Labour	William Regan	8,759	n/a
Majority				n/a
Turnout				n/a
	Liberal win

endorsed by the Coalition Government.

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Rutherglen ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	William Wright	14,029	55.1
	National Liberal	John T Train	11,440	44.9
Majority			2,589	10.2
Turnout			25,469
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1923: Rutherglen ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	William Wright	13,021
	Unionist	Robert McLaren	7,652
	Liberal	John Taylor	3,201
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1924: Rutherglen ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	William Wright	13,796
	Unionist	Robert McLaren	12,707
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Rutherglen ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	William Wright	17,538	52.2
	Unionist	Arthur Patterson Duffes	12,249	36.5
	Liberal	James Dunlop MacDougall	2,945	8.8
	Communist	Alexander B. Moffat	842	2.5
Majority			5,289	15.7
Turnout			33,574
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

Rutherglen by-election, 1931^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	David Hardie	16,736
	Unionist	Herbert James Moss	15,853
Majority
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1931: Rutherglen^[7]^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Herbert James Moss	22,185	56.81	+20.3
	Labour	David Hardie	16,866	43.19	-9.0
Majority			5,319	13.62	N/A
Turnout			39,051	81.61
Registered electors			47,848
	Unionist gain from Labour		Swing	+14.65

General Election 1935: Rutherglen^[9]^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Allan Chapman	20,712	50.71	-6.10
	Labour	David Hardie	20,131	49.29	+6.10
Majority			581	1.42	-12.20
Turnout			40,843	79.99	-1.62
Registered electors			51,063
	Unionist hold		Swing	-6.10

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Rutherglen^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Gilbert McAllister	24,738	59.65	+10.36
	Unionist	Allan Chapman	16,736	40.35	-10.36
Majority			8,002	19.29	N/A
Turnout			41,474	76.55	-3.44
Registered electors			54,180
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+10.36

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Rutherglen^[12]^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Gilbert McAllister	18,779	49.53	-10.12
	Unionist	Richard Charles Brooman-White	18,084	47.69	+7.34
	Liberal	Mrs. Christian Beveridge Goodfellow	1,055	2.78	N/A
Majority			695	1.83	-17.46
Turnout			37,918	86.09	+9.54
Registered electors			44,047
	Labour hold		Swing	-8.73

General Election 1951: Rutherglen^[14]^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Richard Charles Brooman-White	19,554	50.45	+2.76
	Labour	Gilbert McAllister	19,202	49.55	+0.02
Majority			352	0.91	N/A
Turnout			38,756	87.74	+1.65
Registered electors			44,173
	Unionist gain from Labour		Swing	+1.37

General Election 1955: Rutherglen^[16]^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Richard Charles Brooman-White	19,141	52.90	+2.45
	Labour	Gilbert McAllister	17,040	47.10	-2.45
Majority			2,101	5.81	+4.90
Turnout			36,181	84.11	-3.63
Registered electors			43,016
	Unionist hold		Swing	+2.45

General Election 1959: Rutherglen^[18]^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Richard Charles Brooman-White	19,146	52.07	-0.83
	Labour	Edward James Milne	17,624	47.93	+0.83
Majority			1,522	4.14	-1.67
Turnout			36,770	85.85	+1.74
Registered electors			42,833
	Unionist hold		Swing	-0.83

Elections in the 1960s

Rutherglen by-election, 1964
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	James Gregor Mackenzie	18,885	55.51	+7.58
	Unionist	Iain MacDonald Sproat	15,138	44.49	-7.58
Majority			3,747	11.01
Turnout			34,023
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+7.6

General Election 1964: Rutherglen^[20]^[21]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	James Gregor Mackenzie	18,943	52.60	+4.67
	Unionist	Iain MacDonald Sproat	15,413	42.80	-9.27
	SNP	Robert N Armstrong	1,657	4.60	N/A
Majority			3,530	9.80	N/A
Turnout			36,013	86.22	+0.37
Registered electors			41,771
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing	+6.97

General Election 1966: Rutherglen^[22]^[23]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	James Gregor Mackenzie	18,621	54.10	+1.50
	Conservative	John H Young	13,607	39.53	-3.27
	SNP	Andrew Peacock	2,194	6.37	+1.77
Majority			5,014	14.57	+4.77
Turnout			34,422	84.22	-2.00
Registered electors			40,870
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.39

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1970: Rutherglen^[24]^[25]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	James Gregor Mackenzie	17,751	52.28	-1.82
	Conservative	Peter C Hutchison	14,710	43.33	+3.80
	Independent Scottish Nationalist	David H Livingstone	1,490	4.39	-1.98
Majority			3,041	8.96	-5.61
Turnout			33,951	79.51	-4.71
Registered electors			42,702
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.81

General Election, February 1974: Rutherglen^[26]^[27]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	James Gregor Mackenzie	19,005	47.58	-4.70
	Conservative	John Thomson	14,852	38.17	-6.15
	SNP	Louisa Leslie	6,089	15.24	N/A
Majority			4,153	10.40	+1.44
Turnout			39,946	82.62	+3.11
Registered electors			48,351
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.73

General Election, October 1974: Rutherglen^[26]^[28]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	James Gregor Mackenzie	17,099	44.39	-3.18
	SNP	Ian Ogilvie Bayne	9,732	25.28	+10.04
	Conservative	John Thomson	9,248	24.03	-13.15
	Liberal	Robert Edward Brown	2,424	6.30	N/A
Majority			7,356	19.11	+8.71
Turnout			38,492	78.84	-3.78
Registered electors			48,824
	Labour hold		Swing	-6.61

General Election, 1979: Rutherglen^[26]^[29]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	James Gregor Mackenzie	18,546	46.70	+2.31
	Conservative	Paul Burns	10,523	26.50	+2.47
	Liberal	Robert Edward Brown	7,315	18.42	+12.12
	SNP	James Michael Trevlyn Grieve	3,325	8.37	-16.91
Majority			8,023	20.20	+1.09
Turnout			39,709	80.42	+1.58
Registered electors			49,379
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.08

Elections in the 1980s

General Election, 1983: Rutherglen^[30]^[31]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	James Gregor Mackenzie	21,510	48.34	-2.40
	Liberal	Robert Edward Brown	12,384	27.83	+11.18
	Conservative	Helen May Hodgins	8,017	18.02	-5.15
	SNP	Kenneth Fee	2,438	5.48	-3.79
	Workers Revolutionary	Christopher Corrigan	148	0.33	N/A
Majority			9,126	20.51	+0.31
Turnout			44,497	75.15	-5.27
Registered electors			59,209
	Labour hold		Swing	-6.79

General Election, 1987: Rutherglen^[30]^[32]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy	24,790	56.01	+7.67
	Liberal	Robert Edward Brown	10,795	24.39	-3.44
	Conservative	Graeme Morris Hamilton	5,088	11.50	-6.52
	SNP	John Higgins	3,584	8.10	+2.62
Majority			13,995	31.62	+11.11
Turnout			44,257	77.22	+2.07
Registered electors			57,313
	Labour hold		Swing	+5.56

Elections in the 1990s

General Election, 1992: Rutherglen^[30]^[33]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy	21,962	55.38	-0.63
	Conservative	Brian David Cooklin	6,692	16.88	+5.38
	SNP	John Higgins	6,470	16.32	+8.22
	Liberal Democrat	David Somervail Baillie	4,470	11.27	-13.12
	International Communist Party	Barbara Elizabeth Slaughter	62	0.16	N/A
Majority			15,270	38.51	+6.89
Turnout			39,656	75.22	-2.00
Registered electors			52,719
	Labour hold		Swing	-3.01

General Election, 1997: Rutherglen^[34]^[35]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy	20,430	57.52	+4.14
	SNP	Ian George McGregor Gray	5,423	15.27	-0.31
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Edward Brown	5,167	14.55	+2.89
	Conservative	David Campbell Bannerman	3,288	9.26	-9.90
	Independent Labour	George Douglas Easton	812	2.29	N/A
	Scottish Socialist	Rosie Kane	251	0.71	N/A
	Referendum	Julia Kerr	150	0.42	N/A
Majority			15,007	42.25	+3.74
Turnout			35,521	70.10	-5.12
Registered electors			50,673
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.22

Elections in the 2000s

General Election, 2001: Rutherglen^[34]^[35]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Thomas McLaughlin McAvoy	16,760	57.4	−0.14
	SNP	Anne McLaughlin	4,135	14.15	−1.1
	Liberal Democrat	David Michael Jackson	3,689	12.6	−1.9
	Conservative	Malcolm MacAskill	3,301	11.30	+2.40
	Scottish Socialist	William Bonnar	1,328	4.55	+3.84
Majority			12,625	43.22	+0.97
Turnout			29,213	56.34	−13.76
Registered electors			51,855
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.5

References

↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
↑ The Times, 17 November 1922
↑ The Times, 8 December 1923
↑ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
↑ The Times, 1 June 1929
↑ The Times, 23 May 1931
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1931". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
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↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1945". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
↑ Kimber, Richard. "UK General Election results 1950". Political Science Resources. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)

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