South Lanarkshire 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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 (Westminster

Palace of Westminster

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) from 1868 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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

Boundaries

The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868

Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868

The Representation of the People Act 1868 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It carried on from the Representation of the People Act 1867, and created seven additional Scottish seats in the House of Commons at the expense of seven English borough constituencies, which were...

 provided that the South Lanarkshire constituency was to consist of the parishes of Biggar

Biggar, South Lanarkshire

Biggar is a town and former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is situated in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, around 30 miles from Edinburgh along the A702. The closest towns are Lanark and Peebles, and as such Biggar serves a wide rural area...

, Cambusnethan

Cambusnethan

Cambusnethan is a large suburb on the eastern edge of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire in Scotland. It is approximately 1.5 miles long, straddling both sides of the A722 on a hill overlooking Wishaw.-Transport:...

, Carluke

Carluke

The town of Carluke lies in the heart of the Lanarkshire countryside in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, 5.4 miles northwest of Lanark and 4 miles southeast of Wishaw....

, Carmichael, Carnwath

Carnwath

Carnwath is a moorland village on the southern edge of the Pentland Hills of Lanarkshire, Scotland. The village lies about south of both Edinburgh and Glasgow...

, Carstairs

Carstairs

The name Carstairs refers to a pair of villages located some 4–5 miles east of the town of Lanark in the administrative region of South Lanarkshire in southern Scotland....

, Covington and Thankerton, Crawford

Crawford, South Lanarkshire

Crawford is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.Crawford is close to the source of the River Clyde and the M74 motorway, fifty miles south east of Glasgow and fifty-three miles north west of Carlisle...

, Crawfordjohn

Crawfordjohn

Crawfordjohn is a small village and civil parish located in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.It is west of Abington and north east of Leadhills, near junction 13 of the M74. It lies to the north of the Duneaton Water, a tributary of the River Clyde. It is known for the manufacture of curling stones....

, Dalserf

Dalserf

Dalserf is a small village and civil parish in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies on the River Clyde east of Larkhall and south east of Hamilton. As of 2006, its population is 52...

, Dolphinton

Dolphinton

Dolphinton is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located northeast of Biggar, 11 miles northest of Carstairs and 10 miles southwest of Leadburn and 27 miles southwest of Edinburgh, on the A702 road....

, Douglas

Douglas, South Lanarkshire

Douglas is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located on the south bank of the Douglas Water and on the A70 road that links Ayr, on the West coast of Scotland, to Edinburgh on the East, around 12 miles south west of Lanark. The placename is of Gaelic origin, derived from the Old Gaelic...

, Dunsyre

Dunsyre

Dunsyre is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is 6 miles from Carnwath . Dunsyre is associated with an ancient barony and parish church...

, Lanark

Lanark

Lanark is a small town in the central belt of Scotland. Its population of 8,253 makes it the 100th largest settlement in Scotland. The name is believed to come from the Cumbric Lanerc meaning "clear space, glade"....

, Lesmahagow

Lesmahagow

Lesmahagow is a small town on the edge of moorland, near Lanark in the central belt of Scotland. It is also known as Abbey Green.-Etymology:The name is possibly a corruption of "Church of St Machutus"...

, Libberton, Pitinain, Shotts

Shotts

Shotts is a small rural town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located almost halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh . As of the 2001 census, the population was 8,235...

, Stonehouse

Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire

Stonehouse is a rural village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located on Avon Water in an area of natural beauty and historical interest, near to the Clyde Valley. It is also situated on the A71 trunk road between Edinburgh and Kilmarnock, close to the towns of Hamilton, Larkhall and...

, Walston, Wandell and Lamington, Wiston and Roberton, and so much of the parishes of Culter and Moffat

Moffat

Moffat is a former burgh and spa town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, lying on the River Annan, with a population of around 2,500. The most notable building in the town is the Moffat House Hotel, designed by John Adam...

 as is situated in the County of Lanark.

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885

Redistribution of Seats Act 1885

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a piece of electoral reform legislation that redistributed the seats in the House of Commons, introducing the concept of equally populated constituencies, in an attempt to equalise representation across...

 provided that the constituency was to consist of:

the parishes of Biggar, Carluke, Carmichael, Carnwath, Carstairs, Covington and Thankerton, Crawford, Crawfordjohn, Culter

Coulter, South Lanarkshire

Coulter or Culter is a small village and civil parish in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies approximately south of Biggar. Some old maps and local modern houses also have the spelling Cootyre - " a safe place for cows."Nearby are two notable Scottish hills, Tinto and Culter Fell. The River...

, Dolphinton, Douglas, Dunsyre, Lamington and Wandel, Lanark, Lesmahagow, Liberton, Pettinain, Symington

Symington, South Lanarkshire

Symington is a small village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, 3 miles southwest of Biggar, 10 miles east of Douglas and 13 miles southeast of Carluke...

, Walston, Wiston and Roberton, Moffat, Avondale, Stonehouse, Glasford, and East Kilbride

East Kilbride

East Kilbride is a large suburban town in the South Lanarkshire council area, in the West Central Lowlands of Scotland. Designated as Scotland's first new town in 1947, it forms part of the Greater Glasgow conurbation...

; so much of the parish of Cathcart as adjoins East Kilbride, and so much of the parish of Kirkpatrick juxta as may be in the county of Lanark.

Member of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1868 United Kingdom general election, 1868 The 1868 United Kingdom general election was the first after passage of the Reform Act 1867, which enfranchised many male householders, thus greatly increasing the number of men who could vote in elections in the United Kingdom...	John Glencairn Carter Hamilton John Glencairn Carter Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Dalzell John Glencairn Carter Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Dalzell , was a Scottish soldier and politician.Hamilton was born in Marseilles, France, the only son of Archibald James Hamilton, 12th of Orbiston , and was educated at Eton College. He served in the 2nd Life Guards, rising to the rank of...	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...
	1874 United Kingdom general election, 1874 -Seats summary:-References:* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...	Sir Windham Carmichael-Anstruther, Bt.	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...
	1880 United Kingdom general election, 1880 -Seats summary:-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...	John Glencairn Carter Hamilton John Glencairn Carter Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Dalzell John Glencairn Carter Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Dalzell , was a Scottish soldier and politician.Hamilton was born in Marseilles, France, the only son of Archibald James Hamilton, 12th of Orbiston , and was educated at Eton College. He served in the 2nd Life Guards, rising to the rank of...	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...
	1886 United Kingdom general election, 1886 -Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the UK general election, 1886*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**...	James Henry Cecil Hozier James Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands James Henry Cecil Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands was a Scottish civil servant, diplomat and politician.-Biography:Hozier was the son of William Hozier, 1st Baron Newlands....	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...
	1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 -Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1906*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:***-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**...	Sir Walter Menzies Walter Menzies Sir Walter Menzies was a Liberal Party politician in Scotland who served as Member of Parliament for Southern Lanarkshire from 1900 to 1913....	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 by-election	William Watson William Watson, Baron Thankerton William Watson, Baron Thankerton was a Scottish politician and judge.Watson was the son of William Watson, Baron Watson, and was educated at Winchester and Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with a third class degree in law in 1895. He was admitted as an advocate in 1899, taking silk in 1914...	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...
1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 The United Kingdom general election of 1918 was the first to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918, which meant it was the first United Kingdom general election in which nearly all adult men and some women could vote. Polling was held on 14 December 1918, although the count did...		Constituency abolished

Election results