Linlithgowshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Linlithgowshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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from 1708 to 1945. It elected one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

(MP) by the first past the post voting system.

For the 1945 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1945

The United Kingdom general election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. The results were counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to...

, the constituency was renamed West Lothian

West Lothian (UK Parliament constituency)

West Lothian was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post voting system....

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1708	Lord Johnstone James Johnstone, 2nd Marquess of Annandale James Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell and 2nd Marquess of Annandale, was born about 1687-8 and was the eldest son of William Johnstone, 2nd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell and 1st Marquess of Annandale, by his first wife Sophia Fairholm...
	1708	John Houstoun
	1713	Sir James Carmichael
	1714	John Houstoun
	1715	Sir James Cunynghame
	1722	George Dundas
	1727	Alexander Hamilton
	1741	George Dundas
	1743	Charles Hope-Weir Charles Hope-Weir The Hon. Charles Hope-Weir was a Scottish politician.Born The Hon. Charles Hope, he was the second son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone, daughter of William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale...
	1768	John Hope John Hope (writer) John Hope was a British merchant, writer and politician in the eighteenth century who briefly served as Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire before being dismissed by his cousin John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun after conflict over the John Wilkes affair...
	1770	James Dundas
	1774	Sir William Cunynghame
	1790	John Hope John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun Lieutenant General John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun PC KB , known as the Honourable John Hope from 1781 to 1814 and as the Lord Niddry from 1809 to 1816, was a Scottish soldier and politician.-Military career:...
	1800	Sir Alexander Hope
	1835	James Hope James Hope (1807–1854) Hon. James Hope , later known as James Hope-Wallace, was a Scottish soldier and Conservative Party politician....
	1838	Charles Hope
	1845	William Baillie Sir William Baillie, 2nd Baronet Sir William Baillie of Polkemmet, 2nd Baronet DL was a Scottish rower and Conservative politician who sat in the British House of Commons between 1845 and 1847....
	1847	George Dundas George Dundas George Dundas CMG was a Scottish Tory politician and colonial administrator.Born in England, he was the eldest son of James Dundas, and resided in Dundas Castle. Dundas purchased a Second Lieutenantcy in the Rifle Brigade in 1839, serving in various places such as Bermuda and Nova Scotia...
	1859	Charles Baillie
	1859	Walter Ferrier Hamilton
	1865	Peter McLagan Peter McLagan Peter McLagan was a British Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1893.At the 1865 general election he was elected unopposed as the Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire, and was re-elected at the next six general elections...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
	1893	Thomas Hope Thomas Hope (politician) Capt Thomas Hope was the Tory MP for Linlithgowshire, winning it in the 1893 by-election and resigning it in 1895. In Freemasonry, he was also Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Linlithgowshire from 1894 to 1904.- External links :...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
	1895	Alexander Ure Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde GBE was a Scottish politician and judge.Educated at the University of Glasgow he was admitted to membership of the Faculty of Advocates in 1878....	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
	1913	John Pratt John Pratt (Liberal politician) Sir John William Pratt , was a Scottish Liberal politician.Pratt entered Parliament for Linlithgowshire in 1913 by-election, a seat he held until 1918, and then represented Glasgow Cathcart until 1922...	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
	1918	James Kidd James Kidd James Kidd was Unionist Party politician in Scotland. He sat in the House of Commons from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 until his death....	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Emanuel Shinwell Manny Shinwell Emanuel "Manny" Shinwell, Baron Shinwell CH, PC , familiarly known as Manny, was a British trade union official, Labour politician and one of the leading figures of Red Clydeside....	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
	1924	James Kidd James Kidd James Kidd was Unionist Party politician in Scotland. He sat in the House of Commons from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 until his death....	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
	1928	Emanuel Shinwell Manny Shinwell Emanuel "Manny" Shinwell, Baron Shinwell CH, PC , familiarly known as Manny, was a British trade union official, Labour politician and one of the leading figures of Red Clydeside....	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
	1931	Sir Adrian William Maxwell Baillie Sir Adrian Baillie, 6th Baronet Sir Adrian William Maxwell Baillie, 6th Baronet was a British MP for two constituencies.He was elected as Unionist Party MP for Linlithgowshire in 1931, but was defeated in 1935. He was then elected as Conservative MP for Tonbridge at a by-election in 1937, but stood down in 1945.He was married...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
	1935	George Mathers	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 The United Kingdom general election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. The results were counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to...		constituency abolished

Election results

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