Galloway (UK Parliament constituency)

Galloway was a county constituency in the Galloway area of Scotland. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system.

Galloway
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
Created from	Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire

It was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Gilbert McMicking	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Cecil Dudgeon	Liberal
	1924	Sir Arthur Henniker-Hughan, Bt.	Unionist
	1925 by-election	Sidney Streatfeild	Unionist
	1929	Cecil Dudgeon	Liberal
	1931		New Party
	1931	John Mackie	Unionist
	1959	John Brewis	Unionist
	Oct 1974	George Thompson	SNP
	1979	Ian Lang	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished

Election results

Galloway constituencies election results

Elections in the 1910s

G. McMicking

General election 1918: Galloway[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Liberal	Gilbert McMicking	Unopposed
	Liberal win (new seat)
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Galloway[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cecil Dudgeon	12,406	54.0	N/A
	Unionist	William Watson	10,557	46.0	New
Majority			1,849	8.0	N/A
Turnout			22,963	77.5	N/A
Registered electors			29,645
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1923: Galloway[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cecil Dudgeon	Unopposed
	Liberal hold

General election 1924: Galloway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Arthur Henniker-Hughan	12,268	53.1	New
	Liberal	Cecil Dudgeon	10,852	46.9	N/A
Majority			1,416	6.2	N/A
Turnout			23,120	76.8	N/A
Registered electors			30,107
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A

1925 Galloway by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sidney Streatfeild	10,846	43.5	−9.6
	Liberal	Cecil Dudgeon	9,918	39.7	−7.2
	Labour	J. Mitchell	4,207	16.8	New
Majority			928	3.8	−2.4
Turnout			24,971	83.3	+6.5
Registered electors			29,992
	Unionist hold		Swing	−1.2

General election 1929: Galloway[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Cecil Dudgeon	13,461	42.4	−4.5
	Unionist	Sidney Streatfeild	13,360	42.1	−11.0
	Labour	Hector McNeill	4,903	15.5	N/A
Majority			101	0.3	N/A
Turnout			31,724	80.1	+3.3
Registered electors			39,621
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	+3.0

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Galloway[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Mackie	18,993	58.3	+16.2
	Liberal	Edward Maitland Campbell	9,176	28.2	-14.2
	Labour	Hector McNeil	3,418	10.5	-5.0
	New Party	Cecil Dudgeon	986	3.0	New
Majority			9,817	30.1	N/A
Turnout			32,573
	Unionist gain from New Party		Swing	+2.1

General election 1935: Galloway[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Mackie	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Unionist hold		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939/40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

• Unionist: John Mackie

General election 1945: Galloway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Unionist	John Mackie	13,647	40.74	New
	Labour	Robert N Hales	11,822	35.29
	Unionist	B Fergusson	8,032	23.98
Majority			1,825	5.45	N/A
Turnout			33,501	70.07
	Independent Unionist gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Galloway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Mackie	19,136	65.55
	Labour	Alan Thompson	10,056	34.45
Majority			9,080	31.10
Turnout			29,192
	Unionist hold		Swing

General election 1951: Galloway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Mackie	16,261	61.63
	Labour	Alan Thompson	6,949	26.34
	Liberal	Robert Tordiff Johnston	3,174	12.03
Majority			9,312	35.29
Turnout			26,384
	Unionist hold		Swing

General election 1955: Galloway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Mackie	15,893	66.86	+5.23
	Labour	William S Gray	7,879	33.14	+6.80
Majority			8,014	33.72	–1.43
Turnout			23,772
	Unionist hold		Swing

1959 Galloway by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Brewis	13,204	49.93	-19.93
	Liberal	Simon Mackay	6,721	25.42	New
	Labour	W Cross	6,520	24.65	-9.26
Majority			6,483	24.51	-9.20
Turnout			26,445
	Unionist hold		Swing

General election 1959: Galloway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Brewis	15,454	56.29
	Liberal	Simon Mackay	6,412	23.35
	Labour	James Pickett	5,590	20.36
Majority			9,042	32.94
Turnout			27,456
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Galloway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	John Brewis	14,530	52.74
	Liberal	Simon Mackay	6,619	24.03
	Labour	JP Gordon	6,401	23.23
Majority			7,911	28.71
Turnout			27,550
	Unionist hold		Swing

General election 1966: Galloway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Brewis	15,137	61.99
	Labour	D Douglas	9,283	38.01
Majority			5,854	23.98
Turnout			24,420
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Galloway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Brewis	14,003	50.28
	SNP	Arthur Donaldson	5,723	20.55	New
	Labour	D Douglas	5,665	20.34
	Liberal	Christopher B.H. Scott	2,461	8.84	New
Majority			8,280	29.73
Turnout			27,852
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election February 1974: Galloway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Brewis	13,316	43.86
	SNP	George Thompson	9,308	30.66
	Liberal	David R. Hannay	4,643	15.29
	Labour	H Chalmers	3,091	10.18
Majority			4,008	13.20
Turnout			30,358
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election October 1974: Galloway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	George Thompson	12,242	40.3	+9.6
	Conservative	Kenneth Alexander Ross	12,212	40.2	-3.7
	Liberal	David R. Hannay	3,181	10.5	+0.2
	Labour	TG Fulton	2,742	9.0	-6.2
Majority			30	0.1	N/A
Turnout			30,377
	SNP gain from Conservative		Swing

General election 1979: Galloway

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Lang	15,306	45.8	+5.6
	SNP	George Thompson	12,384	37.1	-3.2
	Liberal	David R. Hannay	2,852	8.5	-2.0
	Labour	DD Johnston	2,841	8.5	-0.5
Majority			2,922	8.7	N/A
Turnout			33,333
	Conservative gain from SNP		Swing

References

1. Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
2. The Times, 17 November 1922
3. The Times, 8 December 1923
4. The Times, 1 June 1929
5. Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
6. Whitaker's Almanack, 1939

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)