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Hamilton (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918–1997

Field	Value
name	Hamilton
parliament	uk
year	1918
abolished	1997
type	Burgh
elects_howmany	One
previous	Mid Lanarkshire
next	Hamilton North & Bellshill
Hamilton South
region	Scotland

Hamilton South

Hamilton was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

History

The constituency was formed by the division of Lanarkshire constituency. The constituency was split in 1997 to form Hamilton North & Bellshill and Hamilton South.

Boundaries

From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The burgh of Hamilton and the part of the Middle Ward County District which is contained within the extraburghal portion of the parish of Hamilton and the parish of Dalserf."

Members of Parliament

Election	h	1	date=March 2012}}	Party
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1918	Duncan Graham	Labour
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1943 by-election	Tom Fraser	Labour
Scottish National Party}}"		1967 by-election	Winnie Ewing	SNP
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1970	Alex Wilson	Labour
Labour Party (UK)}}"		1978 by-election	George Robertson	Labour
1997	constituency abolished: see Hamilton North and Bellshill & Hamilton South

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1920s

|reg. electors = 27,385

|reg. electors = 27,617

|reg. electors = 27,930

|reg. electors = 34,248

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections of the 1970s

Elections of the 1980s

Elections of the 1990s

References

{{Rayment-hc. h. 1. (March 2012)
Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
The Times, 17 November 1922
Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
The Times, 1 June 1929
Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
Whitaker's Almanack, 1944
[http://by-elections.co.uk/78.html#hamilton 1978 By Elections] {{webarchive. link. (2012-03-14 , British Parliamentary By Elections)
"Election Data 1983". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1987". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1992". [[Electoral Calculus]].

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