Scotland constituency election results in the 1929 United Kingdom general election

33rd Parliament (1923)
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35th Parliament (1929)
36th Parliament (1931)
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Results of the election by constituency

This is a complete alphabetical list of election results from constituencies in Scotland to the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1929 general election, held on 30 May 1929.

Scotland

  • Change in % vote and swing is calculated between the winner and second place and their respective performances at the 1924 election. A plus denotes a swing to the winner and a minus against the winner.
Constituency County Region Last
election 		Winning party Turnout
[a] 		Votes
Party Votes Share Majority Labour[b] Unionist[c] Liberal Other[d] Total
# % # % # % # %
Aberdeenshire Central[1] Uni Uni 10,773 43.6 1,233 63.0 4,357 17.7 10,773 43.6 9,540 38.7
Aberdeenshire East[2] Uni Uni 13,354 56.9 3,244 10,110 43.1 13,354 56.9
Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine[1] Uni Lib 9,839 51.8 668 66.3 9,171 48.2 9,839 51.8
Aberdeen North[1] Lab Lab 17,826 60.8 8,027 17,826 60.8 9,799 33.4 1,686 5.8
Aberdeen South[1] Uni Uni 21,548 60.8 7,680 67.2 13,868 39.2 21,548 60.8
Argyllshire[3] Uni Uni 11,108 44.1 3,019 62.7 6,001 23.8 11,108 44.1 8,089 32.1
Ayr Burghs[1] Uni Uni 16,874 45.9 3,445 74.8 13,429 36.5 16,874 45.9 6,479 17.6
Bute & Northern Ayrshire[2] Uni Uni 18,331 56.2 4,037 14,294 43.8 18,331 56.2
Ayrshire South[2] Lab Lab 16,981 58.1 4,741 16,981 58.1 12,240 41.9
Banffshire[2] Uni Lib 9,278 44.3 2,558 4,982 23.7 6,720 32.0 9,278 44.3
Berwick and Haddington[2] Uni Lab 11,761 37.5 326 11,761 37.5 11,435 36.5 8,132 26.0
Bothwell[4] Lab Lab 17,006 55.3 4,929 17,006 55.3 12,077 39.3 1,677 5.3
Caithness and Sutherland Lib Lib 13,462 73.9 10,421 66.5 3,041 16.7 13,462 73.9 1,711 9.4
Coatbridge[2] Lab Lab 16,879 55.0 7,669 16,879 55.0 9,210 30.0 4,610 15.0
Dumbarton Burghs[1] Lab Lab 19,193 63.1 7,968 19,193 63.1 11,225 36.9
Dumfriesshire[5] Uni Lib 16,174 45.1 Majority 6,687 18.7 12,984 36.2 16,174 45.1
Dunbartonshire[2] Uni Lab 18,153 45.7 1,577 81.0 18,153 45.7 16,576 41.6 5,071 12.7
Dunfermline Burghs Lab Lab 15,288 58.5 6,142 74.1 15,288 58.5 9,146 35.0 1,712 6.5
Edinburgh Central[1] Lab Lab 16,762 59.0 10,017 69.3 16,762 59.0 4,889 17.2 6,745 23.8
Edinburgh East Lab Lab 13,933 47.2 5,246 13,933 47.2 6,889 17.8 8,687 29.4
Edinburgh North[1] Uni Uni 13,993 39.7 2,653 73.8 11,340 32.2 13,993 39.7 9,877 28.1
Edinburgh South[6] Uni Uni 19,541 56.7 9,692 5,050 14.7 19,541 56.7 9,849 28.6
Edinburgh West[1] Uni Lab 15,795 38.6 2,829 15,795 38.6 12,966 31.7 12,126 29.7
Fife East Uni Lib 14,329 42.9 581 73.3 5,350 16.0 13,748 41.1 14,329 42.9
Fife West Lab Lab 17,668 60.0 11,628 69.7 17,668 60.0 5,727 19.5 6,040 20.5
Forfarshire[2] Uni Uni 8,852 42.2 1,951 70.7 5,257 25.0 8,852 42.2 6,901 32.8
Galloway[2] Uni Lib 13,461 42.4 101 80.1 4,903 15.5 13,360 42.1 13,461 42.4
Glasgow Bridgeton[7] Lab Lab 21,033 67.7 10,984 21,033 67.7 10,049 32.3
Glasgow Camlachie[1] Lab Lab 17,946 53.2 3,786 17,946 53.2 C# C% 1,646 4.9
Glasgow Cathcart[1] Uni Uni 15,435 43.1 2,452 12,983 36.3 15,435 43.1 7,388 20.6
Glasgow Central[1] Uni Uni 18,336 50.9 673 72.0 17,663 49.1 18,336 50.9
Glasgow Gorbals[1] Lab Lab 25,134 74.8 16,677 25,134 74.8 8,457 25.2
Glasgow Govan[5] Ind Ind 17,384 57.7 4,646 12,738 42.3 17,834 57.7
Glasgow Hillhead[1] Uni Uni 17,395 63.3 7,330 74.9 10,065 36.7 17,395 63.3
Glasgow Kelvingrove[1] Uni Uni 17,031 48.9 1,858 74.9 15,173 43.6 17,031 48.9 2,623 7.5
Glasgow Maryhill[5] Uni Lab 18,311 50.6 3,389 79.8 18,311 50.6 14,922 41.2 2,955 8.2
Glasgow Partick[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Adam McKinlay 13,110 45.5 +3.3
Unionist George Broun-Lindsay 12,701 44.1 −13.7
Liberal John Taylor 2,975 10.3 n/a
Majority 409 1.4 17.0
Turnout 28,786
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +8.5
Glasgow Pollok[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist John Gilmour 22,328 69.2
Labour Walter Muter 9,936 30.8
Majority 12,392 38.4
Turnout 32,264
Unionist hold Swing
Glasgow Shettleston[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour John Wheatley 19,594 60.4 +9.1
Unionist Herbert James Moss 12,870 39.6 −9.1
Majority 6,724 20.8
Turnout 76.9 −4.9
Labour hold Swing +9.1
Glasgow Springburn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Hardie 21,079 65.5 +9.0
Unionist John McSkimming 11,110 34.5 −9.0
Majority 9,969 31.0 +18.0
Turnout 32,189 73.6 −5.7
Labour hold Swing +9.0
Glasgow St. Rollox[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour James Stewart 19,445 61.8
Unionist A.N. Forman 11,430 36.3 n/a
Communist George Middleton 613 1.9 n/a
Majority 8,015 25.5
Turnout 31,488
Labour hold Swing n/a
Glasgow Tradeston[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tom Henderson 17,864 58.7
Unionist Ingram Spencer 12,592 41.3 n/a
Majority 5,272 17.3
Turnout 30,456
Labour hold Swing n/a
Greenock
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Godfrey Collins 11,190 32.5 −16.1
Labour William Leonard 9,697 28.2 +5.8
Communist Alec Geddes 7,005 20.4 −8.6
Unionist Andrew Dewar Gibb 6,517 18.9 n/a
Majority 1,493 4.3 −15.3
Turnout 78.7 +0.9
Liberal hold Swing -10.9
Hamilton[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Duncan Macgregor Graham 16,595 67.1 +6.3
Unionist Robert McLellan 7,752 31.3 −7.9
Communist Frank Moore 395 1.6 n/a
Majority 8,843 35.8 +14.2
Turnout 72.2 −4.3
Labour hold Swing +7.1
Inverness[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Murdoch Macdonald 14,042 55.3 −7.3
Labour David Norman Mackay 11,369 44.7 +7.3
Majority 2,673 10.6 −14.6
Turnout 25,411
Liberal hold Swing -7.3
Kilmarnock
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Robert Climie 17,368 48.2 +0.4
Unionist Charles MacAndrew 10,939 30.4 −21.8
Liberal James Rankin Rutherford 7,700 21.4 N/A
Majority 6,429 17.8 N/A
Turnout 36,007 77.8 −0.7
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +11.2
Kinross and Western Perthshire[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Katharine Stewart-Murray 12,245 48.6 −23.4
Liberal George Freeland Barbour 9,128 36.2 n/a
Labour W.D. Stewart 3,834 15.2 −12.8
Majority 3,117 12.4 −31.6
Turnout 75.5
Unionist hold Swing n/a
Kirkcaldy Burghs
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tom Kennedy 17,410 59.6 +6.9
Unionist Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn 11,805 40.4 n/a
Majority 5,605 19.2 +13.8
Turnout 72.2 −9.6
Labour hold Swing n/a
Lanark[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Thomas Scott Dickson 15,054 48.7
Unionist Stephen Mitchell 12,652 41.0
Liberal James Mullo Weir 3,179 10.3
Majority 2,402 7.8
Turnout 30,885
Labour gain from Unionist Swing
North Lanarkshire[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jennie Lee 19,884 55.9 +9.4
Unionist Mungo Murray 15,680 44.1 −9.4
Majority 4,204 11.8 18.8
Turnout 78.6
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +9.4
Leith
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ernest Brown 20,613 56.7 −2.9
Labour Alan H. Paton 15,715 43.3 +2.9
Majority 4,898 13.5 −5.8
Turnout 36,328
Liberal hold Swing -2.9
Linlithgowshire[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Manny Shinwell 18,063 51.6
Unionist Adrian Baillie 11,241 32.1
Liberal John Fraser Orr 5,722 16.3 n/a
Majority 6,822 19.5
Turnout 35,026
Midlothian and Peebles Northern[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist John Colville 11,219 39.1
Labour Andrew Clarke 10,779 37.5
Liberal David Edwin Keir 6,726 23.4 n/a
Majority 440 1.6
Turnout
Unionist hold Swing
Montrose Burghs[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Robert Hutchison 11,715 55.5 −1.7
Labour Thomas Irwin 9,381 44.5 +1.7
Majority 2,334 11.0 −3.4
Turnout 71.3 +2.8
Liberal hold Swing -1.7
Moray & Nairn [1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist James Stuart 8,896 43.7
Labour Joseph Forbes Duncan 6,563 32.3
Liberal John Tennant 4,889 24.0 n/a
Majority 2,333 11.5
Turnout 20,348 68.7
Unionist hold Swing
Motherwell
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour James Barr 16,650 58.0
Unionist John Ford 7,502 26.1
Liberal Henry Archibald 3,597 12.5
Communist Isabel Brown 984 3.4
Majority 9,148 31.9
Turnout 79.6
Labour hold Swing
Orkney and Shetland
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Robert William Hamilton 8,256 60.4 n/a
Unionist Basil Neven-Spence 5,404 39.6 n/a
Majority 2,852 20.8 n/a
Turnout 13,660 43.1 n/a
Liberal hold Swing n/a
Paisley[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour James C. Welsh 22,425 55.8 +2.3
Liberal James McCulloch 10,640 26.5 −20.0
Unionist Minna Cowan 7,094 17.7 n/a
Majority 11,785 29.3
Turnout
Labour hold Swing
Peebles and Southern Midlothian[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Joseph Westwood 11,161 45.5 +4.7
Unionist Hylton Murray-Philipson 7,736 31.5 −3.8
Liberal James McGowan 5,648 23.0 −0.9
Majority 3,425 14.0 +8.5
Turnout 75.7 −3.1
Labour hold Swing +4.2
Perth[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Noel Skelton 14,229 40.4 −9.0
Liberal Francis Norie-Miller 12,699 36.1 +5.7
Labour Helen E Gault 8,291 23.5 +3.3
Majority 1,530 4.3 −14.7
Turnout 76.7 +1.4
Unionist hold Swing -7.4
Renfrewshire East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Alexander Munro MacRobert 18,487 52.2
Labour John Martin Munro 16,924 47.8
Majority 1,563 4.4
Turnout 63,189 75.9
Unionist hold Swing
Renfrewshire West[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Robert Forgan 14,419 46.5
Unionist Alexander Thomson Taylor 12,183 39.4
Liberal Francis Sheed Anderson 2,682 8.7 n/a
National (Scotland) Roland Muirhead 1,667 5.4 n/a
Majority 2,236 7.1
Turnout 81.6
Labour gain from Unionist Swing
Ross and Cromarty[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Ian Macpherson 9,564 58.8 n/a
Labour Hugh Donald MacIntosh 6,710 41.2 n/a
Majority 2,854 17.6
Turnout 16,274 55.6 n/a
Liberal hold Swing n/a
Roxburgh & Selkirk[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Unionist Walter Montagu Douglas Scott 13,510 38.0 −7.8
Liberal Arthur Robert McDougal 12,232 34.4 +6.5
Labour Robert Gibson 9,803 27.6 +1.4
Majority 1,278 3.6 −14.3
Turnout 35,545 78.5
Unionist hold Swing -7.2
Rutherglen[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour William Wright 17,538 52.2
Unionist Arthur Patterson Duffes 12,249 36.5
Liberal James Dunlop MacDougall 2,945 8.8
Communist Alex Moffat 842 2.5
Majority 5,289 15.7
Turnout 33,574
Labour hold Swing
Stirling and Falkirk[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Hugh Murnin 15,408 47.4 −6.5
Unionist Douglas Jamieson 10,164 31.3 n/a
Independent Protestant A Ratcliffe 6,902 21.3 n/a
Majority 5,244 16.1 +7.5
Turnout 79.1 −2.5
Labour hold Swing n/a
Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lauchlin MacNeill Weir 17,667 53.2 +0.6
Unionist Harold Mitchell 8,778 26.4 n/a
Liberal Edwin James Donaldson 6,760 20.4 −27.0
Majority 8,889 26.8 +21.6
Turnout 33,205
Labour hold Swing n/a
Stirling & Clackmannan Western[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tom Johnston 15,179 56.7
Unionist Guy Dalrymple Fanshawe 11,589 43.3
Majority 3,590 13.4
Turnout 26,768
Labour gain from Unionist Swing
Western Isles
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Thomas Ramsay 4,877 44.1 −10.1
Labour John McK. MacDiarmid 3,589 32.5 +15.3
Unionist Iain MacAlisdair Moffatt-Pender 2,593 23.4 −5.2
Majority 1,288 11.6 −14.0
Turnout 11,059 40.5 +1.4
Liberal hold Swing -12.7

Notes

  1. ^ Excludes spoilt ballots
  2. ^ Includes Labour Party and allied Co-operative Party
  3. ^ Excludes Speaker
  4. ^ Includes all other parties, all independent candidates and the Speaker

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, FWS Craig
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v The Times, 1 June 1929
  3. ^ a b The Times, 3 June 1929
  4. ^ a b Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
  5. ^ a b c The Times House of Commons, 1929
  6. ^ Oliver and Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1930
  7. ^ The Constitutional Year Book, 1930
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