Glasgow Govan (UK Parliament constituency)

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Glasgow Govan Burgh constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	2005
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Glasgow Govan was a parliamentary constituency in the Govan district of Glasgow. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 2005, returning one Member of Parliament elected by the first past the post system.

The area which the constituency represented is now covered by Glasgow Central, Glasgow South and Glasgow South West.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 4 Elections 4.1 2001 4.2 1997 4.3 1988 4.4 1973 4.5 1970 4.6 1935 4.7 1931 4.8 1906 4.9 1895 5 Notes 6 References

[edit] History

[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 the River Clyde in line with the continuation of the centre line of Balmoral Street, thence eastward along the centre line of the River Clyde to a point in line with the continuation of the centre line of the portion of Govan Road to the west of Princes Dock, thence southward to and along the centre line of the said portion of Govan Road, Whitefield Road, Church Road and continuation thereof to the centre, of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway, thence westward along the centre line of the said Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway to the municipal boundary, thence north-westward, northward, and eastward along the municipal boundary to the point of commencement."

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir William Pearce
	1889	John Wilson	Liberal
	1900	Robert Hunter Craig
	1906	Robert Duncan	Unionist
	1910	William Hunter	Liberal
	1911	Daniel Turner Holmes	Liberal
	1918	Neil Maclean	Labour and Independent Labour Party
	1918 [1]		Labour
	1950	Jack Nixon Browne, later Baron Craigton	Unionist
	1955	John Rankin	Labour Co-operative
	1973	Margo MacDonald	Scottish National Party
	Feb 1974	Harry Selby	Labour
	1979	Andrew McMahon	Labour
	1983	Bruce Millan	Labour
	1988	Jim Sillars	Scottish National Party
	1992	Ian Graham Davidson	Labour Co-operative
	1997	Mohammad Sarwar	Labour
2005		constituency abolished

[edit] Elections

[edit] 2001

General Election 2001: Glasgow Govan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mohammad Sarwar	12,464	49.3	+5.2
	Scottish National Party	Karen Neary	6,064	24.0	-11.1
	Liberal Democrats	Bob Stewart	2,815	11.1	+5.2
	Conservative	Mark Menzies	2,167	8.6	-0.2
	Scottish Socialist	Wullie McGartland	1,531	6.1	N/A
	Communist	John Foster	174	0.7	N/A
	Independent	Badar Mirza	69	0.3	N/A
Majority			6,400	25.3
Turnout			25,284	46.8	-17.7
	Labour hold		Swing	8.2%

[edit] 1997

General Election 1997: Glasgow Govan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mohammad Sarwar	14,216	44.1	N/A
	Scottish National Party	Nicola Sturgeon	11,302	35.1	N/A
	Conservative	William Thomas	2,839	8.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Bob Stewart	1,918	5.9	N/A
	Scottish Socialist	Alan McCombes	755	2.3	N/A
	Independent	Peter Paton	325	1.0	N/A
	Independent	Islam Badar	319	1.0	N/A
	Independent	Zahid Jamil Abbasi	221	0.7	N/A
	Referendum Party	Kenneth MacDonald	201	0.6	N/A
	British National	James White	149	0.5	N/A
Majority			2,914	9.0	N/A
Turnout			32,245	64.5	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

[edit] 1988

Glasgow Govan by-election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Scottish National Party	Jim Sillars	14,677	48.8	+38.4
	Labour	Bob Gillespie	11,123	36.9	-27.8
	Conservative	Graeme Hamilton	2,207	7.3	-4.6
	Social and Liberal Democrats	Bernard Ponsonby	1,246	4.1	-8.2
	Green	George Campbell	345	1.1
	Communist	Douglas Chalmers	281	0.9	+0.3
	Monster Raving Loony	Lord Sutch	174	0.6
	Independent	Fraser Clark	51	0.2
Majority			3,554	11.8
Turnout			30,104	60.2
	Scottish National Party gain from Labour		Swing	+33.1

[edit] 1973

Glasgow Govan by-election, 1973
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Scottish National Party	Margo MacDonald	6,360	41.5	+31.2
	Labour	Harry Selby	5,789	38.2	-21.9
	Conservative	John Mair	1,780	11.7	-16.5
	Liberal	Peter McMillan	1,239	8.2
Majority			571	3.5
Turnout			15,168
	Scottish National Party gain from Labour		Swing	26.7

[edit] 1970

General Election 1970: Glasgow Govan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Rankin	13,443	60.1
	Conservative	G.F. Belton	6,301	28.2
	Scottish National Party	M Grieve	2,294	10.3
	Communist	T. Biggam	326	1.5
Majority			7,142	31.9
Turnout			22,364	63.2
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] 1935

General Election 1935: Glasgow Govan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Neil Maclean	15,791
	Conservative	A. McClure	10,211
	Ind. Labour Party	T. Taylor	4,959

[edit] 1931

General Election 1931: Glasgow Govan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Neil Maclean	15,047
	Conservative	A. McClure	14,442

[edit] 1906

General Election 1906: Glasgow Govan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Duncan	5,224
	Liberal	H.S. Murray	5,096
	Labour	J. Hill	4,212

[edit] 1895

General Election 1895: Glasgow Govan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Wilson	4,290
	Conservative	George Ferguson	4,029
	Labour	Alexander Haddow	430

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Neil Maclean was elected at the 1918 general election as a member of both the Independent Labour Party and the Labour Party. When the two parties separated, Maclean remained with Labour

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.