Combined Scottish Universities | |
Parliament: | uk |
Year: | 1918 |
Abolished: | 1950 |
Type: | University |
Elects Howmany: | Three |
Region: | Scotland |
The Combined Scottish Universities was a three-member university constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1950. It was created by merging the single-member constituencies of Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities and Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities.
The constituency was not a physical area but was rather elected by the graduates of the Scottish Universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
The constituency returned three Members of Parliament to Westminster, elected by Single Transferable Vote. The by-elections used the first past the post voting system.
This University constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 and abolished in 1950 by the Representation of the People Act 1948.
Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | 3rd Member | 3rd Party | |||||
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1918 | Sir William Cheyne | Coalition Conservative | Dugald McCoig Cowan < | -- 1865 to 30 Dec 1933 --> | Coalition Liberal | Sir Henry Craik < | -- 18 Oct 1846 to 16 Mar 1927 --> | Coalition Conservative | |||
1922 | Sir George Berry < | -- 6 Oct 1853 to 18 Jun 1940 --> | Unionist | < | -- Cowan --> | Liberal < | -- Cowan --> | < | -- Craik --> | ||
Apr 1927 | John Buchan < | -- 26 Aug 1875 to 11 Feb 1940 --> | Unionist | ||||||||
1931 | Noel Skelton < | -- 1880 to 22 Nov 1935 --> | Unionist | ||||||||
Mar 1934 | George Alexander Morrison < | -- 30 Oct 1869 to 8 Sep 1956 --> | Liberal | ||||||||
Jun 1935 | < | -- Morrison --> | National Liberal < | -- Morrison --> | Sir John Kerr < | -- 18 Sep 1869 to 21 Apr 1957 --> | Unionist | ||||
Jan 1936 | National Labour | ||||||||||
Feb 1938 | Sir John Anderson < | -- 8 Jul 1882 to 4 Jan 1958 --> | National | ||||||||
Apr 1945 | Independent | ||||||||||
Nov 1946 | Walter Elliot | Unionist | |||||||||
1950 | University constituencies abolished |