List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1955–1959)

List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1955–1959)
Colours on map indicate the party allegiance of each constituency's MP.

This is a list of the 71 members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Scottish constituencies for the Forty-first parliament of the United Kingdom (1955–1959) at the 1955 United Kingdom general election.[1]

As of 2024, this was the last election in which the Conservative and Unionist Party won the largest number of votes in Scotland and the most seats in the country.[2]

Composition

Affiliation Members
Scottish Labour Party 34
Unionist Party 30
National Liberal 6
Scottish Liberal Party 1
 Total 71

List

MP Constituency Party In constituency since
Hector Hughes Aberdeen North Labour Party 1945
Priscilla Buchan Aberdeen South Unionist Party 1946 by-election
Robert Boothby Aberdeenshire East Unionist Party 1950
Henry Spence Aberdeenshire West Unionist Party 1950
Colin Thornton-Kemsley Angus North and Mearns National Liberal 1950
James Duncan Angus South National Liberal 1950
Duncan McCallum Argyll Unionist Party 1950
Thomas Moore Ayr Unionist Party 1950
Douglas Spencer-Nairn Ayrshire Central Unionist Party 1955
Charles MacAndrew Ayrshire North and Bute Unionist Party 1935
Emrys Hughes Ayrshire South Labour Party 1946 by-election
William Duthie Banffshire Unionist Party 1945
Antony Lambton, Viscount Lambton Berwick and East Lothian Unionist Party 1951
John Timmons Bothwell Labour Party 1945
David Robertson Caithness and Sutherland Unionist Party 1950
Jean Mann Coatbridge and Airdrie Labour Party 1950
Niall Macpherson Dumfriesshire National Liberal 1945
Cyril Bence Dunbartonshire East Labour Party 1951
Tom Steele Dunbartonshire West Labour Party 1950 by-election
George Thomson Dundee East Labour Party 1952 by-election
John Strachey Dundee West Labour Party 1950
James Clunie Dunfermline Burghs Labour Party 1950
Tom Oswald Edinburgh Central Labour Party 1951
George Willis (politician) Edinburgh East Labour Party 1954 by-election
James Hoy Edinburgh Leith Labour Party 1950
William Milligan Edinburgh North Unionist Party 1955
John Hope Edinburgh Pentlands Unionist Party 1950
William Darling Edinburgh South Unionist Party 1945
Ian Clark Hutchison Edinburgh West Unionist Party 1941 by-election
James Henderson-Stewart Fife East National Liberal 1933 by-election
Willie Hamilton Fife West Labour Party 1950
John Mackie Galloway Unionist Party 1931
James Carmichael Glasgow Bridgeton Labour Party 1946 by-election
John Henderson Glasgow Cathcart Unionist Party 1946 by-election
James McInnes Glasgow Central Labour Party 1950
Jack Browne Glasgow Craigton Unionist Party 1955
Alice Cullen Glasgow Gorbals Labour Party 1948 by-election
John Rankin Glasgow Govan Labour Party 1955
Tam Galbraith Glasgow Hillhead Unionist Party 1948 by-election
Walter Elliot Glasgow Kelvingrove Unionist Party 1950
William Hannan Glasgow Maryhill Labour Party 1945
John George Glasgow Pollok Unionist Party 1955
William Reid Glasgow Provan Labour Party 1955
James Hutchison Glasgow Scotstoun Unionist Party 1950
John McGovern Glasgow Shettleston Labour Party 1930 by-election
John Forman Glasgow Springburn Labour Party 1945
William Grant Glasgow Woodside Unionist Party 1955
Hector McNeil Greenock Labour Party 1941 by-election
Tom Fraser Hamilton Labour Party 1943 by-election
Billy McLean Inverness Unionist Party 1954 by-election
William Ross Kilmarnock Labour Party 1946 by-election
Gilmour Leburn Kinross and Western Perthshire Unionist Party 1955
Thomas Hubbard Kirkcaldy Burghs Labour Party 1944 by-election
Patrick Maitland Lanark Unionist Party 1951
Peggy Herbison Lanarkshire North Labour Party 1945
David Pryde Midlothian Labour Party 1955
James Stuart Moray and Nairn Unionist Party 1923
George Lawson Motherwell Labour Party 1954 by-election
Jo Grimond Orkney and Shetland Liberal Party 1950
Douglas Johnston Paisley Labour Party 1948 by-election
Alan Gomme-Duncan Perth and East Perthshire Unionist Party 1950
Guy Lloyd Renfrewshire East Unionist Party 1940 by-election
John Maclay Renfrewshire West National Liberal 1950
John MacLeod Ross and Cromarty National Liberal 1945
Charles Donaldson Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles Unionist Party 1951
Richard Brooman-White Rutherglen Unionist Party 1951
Malcolm MacPherson Stirling and Falkirk Labour Party 1948 by-election
Arthur Woodburn Stirlingshire East and Clackmannan Labour Party 1939 by-election
Alfred Balfour Stirlingshire West Labour Party 1945
John Taylor West Lothian Labour Party 1951
Malcolm Macmillan Western Isles Labour Party 1935

By-elections

There were six by-elections during this period:

By-election Date Incumbent Party Winner Party Cause
Greenock 8 December 1955 Hector McNeil Labour Dickson Mabon Labour Death
Edinburgh South 29 May 1957 William Darling Unionist Michael Hutchison Unionist Resignation
Glasgow Kelvingrove 13 March 1958 Walter Elliot Unionist Mary McAlister Labour Death
Argyll 12 June 1958 Duncan McCallum Unionist Michael Noble Unionist Death
East Aberdeenshire 20 November 1958 Robert Boothby Unionist Patrick Wolrige-Gordon Unionist Elevation to a life peerage
Galloway 9 April 1959 John Mackie Unionist John Brewis Unionist Death

References

  1. ^ "1955: Election victory for Tories under Eden". 1955-05-27. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
  2. ^ Devine, Tom (2014-09-14). "How history turned against Tory-voting Scotland". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-02-17.

See also

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