List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1945–1950)

This is a list of the 68 members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Scottish constituencies for the thirty-eighth parliament of the United Kingdom (1945–1950) at the 1945 United Kingdom general election.

Composition AffiliationMembersLabour Party37Unionist Party25National Liberal3Independent Labour Party3Independent Liberal2National1Independent Unionist1Independent1Communist1Scottish Liberal Party0 Total74

List MPConstituencyPartyIn constituency sinceHector HughesAberdeen NorthLabour Party1945Douglas ThomsonAberdeen SouthUnionist Party1935Henry SpenceAberdeenshire East and KincardineshireUnionist Party1945Duncan McCallumArgyllshireUnionist Party1940 by-electionThomas MooreAyr BurghsUnionist Party1925Charles MacAndrewAyrshire North and ButeUnionist Party1935Alexander SloanAyrshire SouthLabour Party1939 South Ayrshire by-electionWilliam DuthieBanffshireUnionist Party1945John RobertsonBerwick and HaddingtonLabour Party1945John TimmonsBothwellLabour Party1945Eric Gandar DowerCaithness and SutherlandUnionist Party1945Jean MannCoatbridgeLabour Party1945Niall MacphersonDumfriesshireNational Liberal1945David KirkwoodDumbarton BurghsLabour Party1922Adam McKinlayDunbartonshireLabour Party1941 by-electionThomas CookDundee (1)Labour Party1945John StracheyDundee (2)Labour Party1945William WatsonDunfermline BurghsLabour Party1935Andrew GilzeanEdinburgh CentralLabour Party1945Frederick Pethick-LawrenceEdinburgh EastLabour Party1935George WillisEdinburgh NorthLabour Party1945William DarlingEdinburgh SouthUnionist Party1945Ian Clark HutchisonEdinburgh WestUnionist Party1941 by-electionJames Henderson-StewartFife EastNational Liberal1933 by-electionWillie GallacherFife WestCommunist1935Simon RamsayForfarshireUnionist Party1945John MackieGallowayUnionist Party1931James MaxtonGlasgow BridgetonIndependent Labour Party1922Campbell StephenGlasgow CamlachieIndependent Labour Party1935Francis BeattieGlasgow CathcartUnionist Party1942 by-electionJames HutchisonGlasgow CentralUnionist Party1945George BuchananGlasgow GorbalsLabour Party1922Neil MacleanGlasgow GovanLabour Party1918James ReidGlasgow HillheadUnionist Party1937 by-electionJohn WilliamsGlasgow KelvingroveLabour Party1945William HannanGlasgow MaryhillLabour Party1945Arthur YoungGlasgow PartickUnionist Party1935Thomas GalbraithGlasgow PollokUnionist Party1940 by-electionJohn McGovernGlasgow ShettlestonLabour Party1930 by-electionJohn FormanGlasgow SpringburnLabour Party1945William LeonardGlasgow St RolloxLabour Party1931 by-electionHector McNeilGreenockLabour Party1941 by-electionTom FraserHamiltonLabour Party1943 by-electionMurdoch MacdonaldInvernessIndependent Liberal1922 by-electionClarice ShawKilmarnockLabour Party1945Colin Thornton-KemsleyKincardineshire and Western AberdeenshireUnionist Party1939 by-electionWilliam McNair SnaddenKinross and Western PerthshireUnionist Party1938 by-electionThomas HubbardKirkcaldy BurghsLabour Party1944 by-electionAlec Douglas-Home,LanarkUnionist Party1950Peggy HerbisonLanarkshire NorthLabour Party1945James HoyLeithLabour Party1945George MathersLinlithgowshireLabour Party1935John HopeMidlothian and Peebles NorthernUnionist Party1945John MaclayMontrose BurghsNational Liberal1940 by-electionJames StuartMoray and NairnUnionist Party1923Alexander AndersonMotherwellLabour Party1945Jo GrimondOrkney and ShetlandLiberal Party1950Oliver BaldwinPaisleyLabour Party1945Alan Gomme-DuncanPerthUnionist Party1945Guy LloydRenfrewshire EastUnionist Party1940 by-electionThomas ScollanRenfrewshire WestLabour Party1945John MacLeodRoss and CromartyNational Liberal1945William Montagu Douglas ScottRoxburgh and SelkirkLiberal Party1935Gilbert McAllisterRutherglenLabour Party1945Joseph WestwoodStirling and FalkirkLabour Party1935Arthur WoodburnStirlingshire East and ClackmannanLabour Party1939 by-electionAlfred BalfourStirlingshire WestLabour Party1945Malcolm MacmillanWestern IslesLabour Party1935

By-elections There were thirteen by-elections during this period:

1945 Edinburgh East by-election 1946 South Ayrshire by-election 1946 Glasgow Cathcart by-election 1946 Glasgow Bridgeton by-election 1946 Aberdeen South by-election 1946 Combined Scottish Universities by-election 1946 Kilmarnock by-election 1947 Edinburgh East by-election 1948 Glasgow Camlachie by-election 1948 Paisley by-election 1948 Glasgow Gorbals by-election 1948 Stirling and Falkirk by-election 1948 Glasgow Hillhead by-election

References

See also 1945 United Kingdom general election in Scotland