James Wellwood Johnston
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James Wellwood Johnston was Unionist Party (Scotland) MP for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
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This was normally a Labour seat which he did fairly well to win from the sitting MP, Lauchlin MacNeill Weir
, in the National Government landslide of 1931. However Weir narrowly won it back in 1935.
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire was a parliamentary constituency in the Clackmannan area of Central Scotland. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.The constituency was created for the...
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This was normally a Labour seat which he did fairly well to win from the sitting MP, Lauchlin MacNeill Weir
Lauchlin MacNeill Weir
Lauchlin MacNeill Weir was a Scottish Labour politician.He first stood for parliament in Argyllshire in 1918, but was easily beaten by the Coalition Liberal....
, in the National Government landslide of 1931. However Weir narrowly won it back in 1935.