Glasgow Hillhead (UK Parliament constituency)

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Glasgow Hillhead Burgh constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1997
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Glasgow Hillhead was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1997.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Boundaries

In 1918 the constituency consisted of "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point in the municipal boundary at its intersection with the centre line of the River Kelvin, thence southeastward, southward and southwestward along the centre line of the River Kelvin to the centre line of the North British Railway (Stobcross Branch), thence north-westward along the centre of the said North British Railway to its intersection with the municipal boundary, thence northeastward along the municipal boundary to the point of commencement "

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Robert Horne	Conservative
	1937	James Reid	Conservative
	1948	Sir Tam Galbraith	Conservative
	1982	Roy Jenkins	SDP
	1987	George Galloway	Labour
1997		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

General Election 1992: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Galloway	15,148	38.5
	Liberal Democrat	Chris Mason	10,322	26.2
	Conservative	Aileen Bates	6,728	17.1
	Scottish National Party	Sandra White	6,484	16.5
	Green	E. R. Collie	558	1.4
	Revolutionary Communist	H. Gold	73	0.2
	Natural Law	Duncan Patterson	60	0.1
Majority			4,826	12.3
Turnout				68.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Galloway	17,958	42.9
	Social Democrat	Roy Jenkins	14,707	35.1
	Conservative	Brian Cooklin	6,048	14.5
	Scottish National Party	Bill Kidd	2,713	6.5
	Green	Alastair Whitelaw	443	1.1
Majority			3,251	7.8
Turnout				72.4
	Labour gain from Social Democrat		Swing

General Election 1983: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democrat	Roy Jenkins	14,856	36.2
	Labour	Neil Carmichael	13,692	33.4
	Conservative	Murray Tosh	9,638	23.5
	Scottish National Party	George Leslie	2,203	5.4
	Independent Conservative	J. P. Davidson	249	0.6
	Green	Alastair Whitelaw	239	0.6
	Independent (Animal Rights)	J.F. Robins	139	0.3
Majority			1,164	2.8
Turnout				71.9

Glasgow Hillhead by-election, 1982
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Democrat	Roy Jenkins	10,106	33.4	N/A
	Conservative	Gerry Malone	8,068	26.6	- 14.4
	Labour	David Wiseman	7,846	25.9	- 8.5
	Scottish National Party	George Leslie	3,416	11.3	+ 1.2
	Protestant Crusade against the Papal Visit	Rev Jack Glass	388	1.3	N/A
	Social Democrat (1979)	Roy Harold Jenkins	282	0.9	N/A
	Ecology	Nicolette Carlaw	178	0.6	N/A
	Public Safety Democratic Monarchist White Resident	Bill Boaks	5	0.0	N/A
Majority			2,038	6.8	- 0.2
Turnout				76.4	+ 0.7
	Social Democrat gain from Conservative		Swing

By-election 1937: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rt Hon James Scott Cumberland Reid KC	12,539
	Labour	G. McAllister	7,539
	Scottish National Party	John MacCormick	1,886
	Independent	D. J. Black	221
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1931: Glasgow Hillhead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rt Hon Sir Robert Horne GBE KC	21,279
	Labour	C. A. O'Donnell	7,539
Majority
Turnout
	Conservative hold		Swing

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