North East Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North East Lanarkshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1885 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

Boundaries

The name relates the constituency to the county of Lanark. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the North-East division was to consist of "the parishes of New Monkland, Shotts, Dalziel, Bothwell, and so much of the parish of Hamilton as lies north and east of the River Clyde".Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, Seventh Schedule, Part II

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty 1885 Donald Crawford Liberal 1895 John Colville Liberal 1901 by-election Sir William Henry Rattigan Liberal Unionist 1904 by-election Alexander Findlay Liberal January 1910 Thomas Fleming Wilson Liberal 1911 by-election James Duncan Millar Liberal1918constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

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