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Leith (UK Parliament constituency)

释义

Boundaries
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1910s Elections in the 1920s Elections in the 1930s Elections in the 1940s
See also
Notes and references

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|map_entity =
|map_year =
|year = 1918
|abolished = 1950
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|county = City of Edinburgh (from 1920)
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Leith was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1950. The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

There was also an earlier Leith Burghs constituency, 1832 to 1918, and a later Edinburgh Leith constituency, 1950 to 1997.

Boundaries

The Leith constituency was created under the Representation of the People Act 1918, and first used in the 1918 general election, to cover the burgh of Leith, in the county of Midlothian.^[1] The burgh was previously within the Leith Burghs constituency.

1918 boundaries were used also in the general elections of 1922, 1923, 1924, 1929, 1931, 1935 and 1945.

The burgh was merged into the city of Edinburgh in 1920, and for the 1950 general election, under the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949, the Edinburgh Leith constituency was created as one of seven constituencies covering the city and the Midlothian burgh of Musselburgh.^[1]

Members of Parliament

	Member^[2]	Party
1918	William Wedgwood Benn	Liberal
1927 by-election	Ernest Brown	Liberal
1931	Ernest Brown	National Liberal
1945	James Hutchison Hoy, subsequently MP for Edinburgh Leith	Labour

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

{{Election box begin | title=General Election 1918: Leith^[3]

Electorate }}

{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = William Wedgwood Benn
|votes = 10,338
|percentage = 46.6
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box candidate with party link coalition 1918|
|party = Unionist Party (Scotland)
|candidate = George Welsh Currie
|votes = 7,613
|percentage = 34.3
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Stanley Burgess
|votes = 4,251
|percentage =19.1
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 2,725
|percentage = 12.3
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 22,202
|percentage = 52.2
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box registered electors|
|reg. electors = 42,507
}}{{Election box new seat win
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
}}{{Election box end 1918}}

Elections in the 1920s

{{Election box begin |
|title=General Election 1922: Leith^[4]
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = William Wedgwood Benn
|votes = 13,971
|percentage = 50.1
|change = +3.5
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Unionist Party (Scotland)
|candidate = Alexander Munro MacRobert
|votes = 7,372
|percentage = 26.4
|change = −7.9
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Robert Freeman Wilson
|votes = 6,567
|percentage = 23.5
|change = +4.4
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 6,599
|percentage = 23.7
|change = +11.4
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 27,910
|percentage = 71.5
|change = +19.3
}}{{Election box registered electors|
|reg. electors = 39,048
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
|swing = +5.7
}}{{Election box end}}{{Election box begin | title=General Election 1923: Leith^[5]
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = William Wedgwood Benn
|votes = 15,004
|percentage = 64.5
|change = +14.4
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Robert Freeman Wilson
|votes = 8,267
|percentage = 35.5
|change = +12.0
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 6,737
|percentage = 29.9
|change = +5.3
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 23,271
|percentage = 59.1
|change = −12.4
}}{{Election box registered electors|
|reg. electors = 39,385
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
|swing = +1.2
}}{{election box end}}{{Election box begin | title=General Election 1924: Leith^[6]
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = William Wedgwood Benn
|votes = 16,569
|percentage = 59.6
|change = −4.9
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Robert Freeman Wilson
|votes = 11,250
|percentage = 40.4
|change = +4.9
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 5,319
|percentage = 19.2
|change = −9.8
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 27,819
|percentage = 70.5
|change = +11.4
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
|swing = −4.9
}}{{election box end}}{{Election box begin | title=Leith by-election, 1927^[7]
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Ernest Brown
|votes = 12,461
|percentage = 42.3
|change = −17.3
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Robert Freeman Wilson
|votes = 12,350
|percentage = 42.0
|change = +1.6
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Unionist Party (Scotland)
|candidate = Allan Beaton
|votes = 4,607
|percentage = 15.7
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 111
|percentage = 0.3
|change = −18.9
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 29,418
|percentage = 73.9
|change = +3.4
}}{{Election box registered electors|
|reg. electors = 39,795
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
|swing = −9.5
}}{{election box end}}{{Election box begin |title=General Election, 30 May 1929: Leith
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Ernest Brown
|votes = 20,613
|percentage = 56.7
|change = −2.9
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Alan H Paton
|votes = 15,715
|percentage = 43.3
|change = +2.9
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 4,898
|percentage = 13.5
|change = −5.8
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 36,328
|percentage = 71.5
|change = +1.0
}}{{Election box registered electors|
|reg. electors = 50,801
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
|swing = −2.9
}}{{Election box end}}

change and swing from 1924

Elections in the 1930s

{{Election box begin | title=General Election 1931: Leith^[8]

Electorate 50,979}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)
|candidate = Ernest Brown
|votes = 24,847
|percentage =65.0
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Arthur Woodburn
|votes = 13,400
|percentage =35.0
|change =
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 11,447
|percentage = 29.9
|change =
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 38,247
|percentage = 75.0
|change =
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)
|swing =
}}{{election box end}}{{Election box begin | title=General Election 1935: Leith ^[9]
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)
|candidate = Ernest Brown
|votes = 18,888
|percentage =57.7
|change =-7.3
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = David Cleghorn Thomson
|votes = 13,818
|percentage =42.2
|change =+7.3
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 5,070
|percentage = 15.5
|change = -14.6
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 32,706
|percentage = 65.5
|change = -9.5
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)
|swing = -7.3
}}{{election box end}}

General Election 1939/40:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

Liberal National: Ernest Brown
Labour: James Hoy

Elections in the 1940s

{{Election box begin |
|title=General Election 1945: Leith
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = James Hoy
|votes = 19,571
|percentage = 60.8
|change = +18.6
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)
|candidate = Ernest Brown
|votes = 10,116
|percentage = 31.4
|change = -26.3
}}{{Election box candidate|
|party = Protestant Action
|candidate = John Cormack
|votes = 2,493
|percentage = 7.8
|change = n/a
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 9,455
|percentage = 29.4
|change = 44.9
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage = 69.3
|change = +3.8
}}{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Labour Party (UK)
|loser = National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)
|swing = +22.4
}}{{Election box end}}

Notes and references

1. ^¹As per Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972 ({{ISBN|0-900178-09-4}}), F. W. S. Craig, 1972
2. ^{{Rayment-hc|l|2|date=March 2012}}
3. ^Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
4. ^British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
5. ^The Times, 8 December 1923
6. ^Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1924
7. ^The Times, 25 March 1927
8. ^Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
9. ^Whitaker's Almanack, 1939

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