Glasgow Cathcart (UK Parliament constituency)

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Glasgow Cathcart Burgh constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	2005
Type:	House of Commons

Glasgow Cathcart was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 2005. It was replaced by the larger Glasgow South constituency.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results

[edit] Boundaries

In 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary at the centre of Kilmarnock Road, thence northward along the centre line of Kilmarnock Road to the centre line of the River Cart, thence south-eastward and eastward along the centre line of the River Cart to the centre line of Langside Road at Millbrae Bridge, thence north-eastward along the centre line of Langside Road, Millbrae Road and Langside Road, to the centre line of the main avenue in the Queen's Park near Victoria Infirmary, thence northward along the centre line of the said main avenue to the centre line of Queen's Drive, thence northward along the centre line of Victoria Road to the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway about 46 yards north of the centre line of Butterbiggins Road, thence north-eastward along the centre line of the said Glasgow and South Western Railway to the centre line of the Caledonian Railway Main Line from Glasgow to Rutherglen, thence south-eastward along the centre line of the said Caledonian Railway to the municipal boundary, thence south-westward and westward along the municipal boundary to the point of commencement "

[edit] Members of Parliament

	Member	Party
1918	John William Pratt	Coalition Liberal
1922	John Primrose Hay	Labour
1923	Robert MacDonald	Conservative
1929	Sir John Train	Conservative
1942	Francis Beattie	Conservative
1946	John Henderson	Conservative
1964	Teddy Taylor	Conservative
1979	John Maxton, later Baron Maxton	Labour
2001	Thomas Harris	Labour

[edit] Election results

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Glasgow Cathcart
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tom Harris	14,902	54.4	-3.0
	Scottish National Party	Josephine Docherty	4,086	14.9	-3.6
	Conservative	Richard Cook	3,662	13.4	+0.6
	Liberal Democrats	Tom Henery	3,006	11.0	+4.1
	Scottish Socialist	Ronnie Stevenson	1,730	6.3	N/A
Majority			10,816	39.5
Turnout			27,386	52.6	-15.0
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

By-election 1942: Glasgow Cathcart
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Francis Beattie	10,786
	Independent	W. Douglas Home	3,807
	Ind. Labour Party	James Carmichael	2,493
	Scottish National Party	William Whyte	1,000