North West 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-West division was to consist of "so much of the Parish of Barony as lies beyond the present boundary of the municipal burgh of Glasgow and to the east of the main line of railway before mentioned (main line of railway between Glasgow and Edinburgh of the North British Railway Company (being the old Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway), and the parishes of Cadder and Old Monkland".Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, Seventh Schedule, Part II
Members of Parliament
ElectionMemberParty 1885 John Baird Conservative 1886 Cunninghame Graham Liberal 1892Graeme Whitelaw Conservative 1895 John Goundry Holburn Liberal 1899 b-e Charles Mackinnon Douglas Liberal 1906 William Mitchell-Thompson Conservative Jan. 1910 William Pringle Liberal1918constituency abolished
Elections Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Holburn's death caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; Liberal: William Pringle Unionist:
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