Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire was a Scottish constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1950.

Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Number of members	One
Replaced by	West Aberdeenshire and North Angus and Mearns
Created from	Aberdeenshire Western and Kincardineshire

Boundaries

In 1868, the constituency of Aberdeenshire was divided into Aberdeenshire Eastern and Aberdeenshire Western divisions. These continued as constituencies until 1918, when the county of Aberdeenshire and the county of Kincardineshire were treated as if a single county for parliamentary representation purposes, with the area of the former Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire constituencies being divided into three new constituencies, Aberdeen and Kincardine East, Aberdeen and Kincardine Central and Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West. In 1950 the Kincardinshire and Aberdeenshire counties were separated again, and a new boundary divided the Aberdeenshire area into East Aberdeenshire and West Aberdeenshire.

From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The county of Kincardine, inclusive of all burghs situated therein except the burgh of Inverbervie and that portion of the county of the city of Aberdeen which is situated within the said county of Kincardine, together with the county districts of Alford and Deeside, inclusive of all burghs situated therein."

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Arthur Cecil Murray	Coalition Liberal
	1922		Liberal
	1923	Malcolm Barclay-Harvey	Unionist
	1929	James Scott	Liberal
	1931	Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey	Unionist
	1939 by-election	Colin Thornton-Kemsley	Unionist
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Arthur Murray

General election 1918: Kincardine & Western Aberdeenshire

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

Elections in the 1920s

Arthur Murray

General election 1922: Kincardine & Western Aberdeenshire [1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Hon. Arthur Cecil Murray	6,224	62.3	N/A
	National Liberal	William Mitchell	3,767	37.7	N/A
Majority			2,457	24.6	N/A
Turnout				44.6	N/A
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1923: Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine [2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey	6,639	51.0	N/A
	Liberal	Hon. Arthur Cecil Murray	6,369	49.0	-12.4
Majority			270	2.0	26.6
Turnout				57.8	+13.2
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	n/a

General election 1924: Kincardine & Western Aberdeenshire [3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey	8,260	54.5	+3.5
	Liberal	James Scott	6,889	45.5	-3.5
Majority			1,371	9.0
Turnout				67.3
	Unionist hold		Swing

General election 1929: Kincardine & Western Aberdeenshire [4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	James Scott	9,839	51.8	+6.3
	Unionist	Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey	9,171	48.2	-6.3
Majority			668	3.6	12.6
Turnout				66.3
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	+6.3

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Kincardine & Western Aberdeenshire[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey	14,266	61.6
	Liberal	James Scott	8,890	38.4
Majority			5,376	23.2
Turnout			23,156	80.6
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

Barclay-Harvey

General election 1935: Kincardine & Western Aberdeenshire [6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey	12,477	55.9
	Liberal	Arthur James Irvine	9,841	44.1
Majority			2,636	11.8
Turnout			22,318	75.6
	Unionist hold		Swing

1939 Kincardineshire and West Aberdeenshire by-election[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley	11,111	52.7	-3.2
	Liberal	Arthur James Irvine	9,990	47.3	+3.2
Majority			1,121	5.4	-6.4
Turnout			21,101	71.4	-4.2
	Unionist hold		Swing	-3.2

Election in the 1940s

General election 1945: Kincardine & Western Aberdeenshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley	10,932	51.5	-5.4
	Liberal	John Donald Brown Junor	10,290	48.5	+5.4
Majority			642	3.0	-8.8
Turnout			21,222	68.7	-6.9
	Unionist hold		Swing

See also

• Former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies

References

1. The Times, 17 November 1922
2. The Times, 8 December 1923
3. Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanack, 1927
4. The Times, 1 June 1929
5. Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
6. Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
7. Whitaker's Almanack, 1944

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2)