North East Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency) explained

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North East Lanarkshire
Type:	county
Parliament:	uk
Year:	1885
Abolished:	1918
Elects Howmany:	One
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North East Lanarkshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1885 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

Boundaries

The name relates the constituency to the county of Lanark. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 provided that the North-East division was to consist of "the parishes of New Monkland, Shotts, Dalziel, Bothwell, and so much of the parish of Hamilton as lies north and east of the River Clyde".^[1]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Donald Crawford	Liberal
	1895	John Colville	Liberal
	1901 by-election	Sir William Henry Rattigan	Liberal Unionist
	1904 by-election	Alexander Findlay	Liberal
	January 1910	Thomas Fleming Wilson	Liberal
	1911 by-election	James Duncan Millar	Liberal
	1918	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Notes and references

Notes

References

Notes and References

1. Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, Seventh Schedule, Part II