Glasgow Hillhead (UK Parliament constituency)

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Glasgow Hillhead Burgh constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1997
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Glasgow Hillhead was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1997.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 References

[edit] Boundaries

In 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point in the municipal boundary at its intersection with the centre line of the River Kelvin, thence southeastward, southward and southwestward along the centre line of the River Kelvin to the centre line of the North British Railway (Stobcross Branch), thence north-westward along the centre of the said North British Railway to its intersection with the municipal boundary, thence northeastward along the municipal boundary to the point of commencement "

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Robert Stevenson Horne, later Viscount Horne	Conservative
	1937	James Scott Cumberland Reid, later Baron Reid	Conservative
	1948	Sir Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith	Conservative
	1982	Roy Harris Jenkins, later Baron Jenkins of Hillhead	SDP
	1987	George Galloway	Labour
1997		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

By-election 1937: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rt Hon James Scott Cumberland Reid KC	12,539
	Labour	G. McAllister	7,539
	Scottish National Party	John MacCormick	1,886
	Independent	D.J. Black	221