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Greenock Burgh constituency
Created:	1832 (1832)
Abolished:	1974 (1974)
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	One

Greenock was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1974, when it was abolished and its area was merged into the new Greenock and Port Glasgow constituency.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also
5 References

Boundaries

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Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1832	Robert Wallace	Liberal
	1845	Walter Baine	Liberal
	1847	William Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Viscount Melgund	Liberal
	1852	Alexander Murray Dunlop	Liberal
	1868	James Johnston Grieve	Liberal
	1878	James Stewart	Liberal
	1884	Thomas Sutherland	Liberal
	1886	Thomas Sutherland	Liberal Unionist
	1892	John Bruce
	1892	Sir Thomas Sutherland	Unionist
	1900	James Reid	Unionist
	1906	Halley Stewart	Liberal
	Jan 1910	Sir Godfrey Collins	Liberal
	1936 by-election	Robert Gibson	Labour
	1941 by-election	Hector McNeil	Labour
	1955 by-election	Dickson Mabon	Labour Co-operative
Feb 1974		constituency abolished: see Greenock & Port Glasgow

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

General Election 1885: Greenock ^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Sutherland	3,057
	Conservative	John Scott	2,954
	Liberal	J Morrison-Davidson	65

General Election 1886: Greenock^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Thomas Sutherland	2,905
	Liberal	Harold Wright	2,208

Elections in the 1890s

General Election 1892: Greenock^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Sir Thomas Sutherland	2,942
	Liberal	John Bruce	2,887

General Election 1895: Greenock^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	Sir Thomas Sutherland GCMG LLD	3,571
	Liberal	Alfred Ewen Fletcher	2,753

Elections in the 1900s

General Election 1900: Greenock^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Reid	3,165
	Liberal	John Maconie	2,886

General Election 1906: Greenock^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Halley Stewart	3,590	52.5
	Conservative	James Reid	3,254	47.5

Elections in the 1910s

General Election Jan 1910: Greenock ^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Major Godfrey Collins	4,233
	Conservative	Rt Hon James Parker Smith	2,632

General Election Dec 1910: Greenock ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Major Godfrey Collins	4,338
	Conservative	Samuel Chapman	2,913

General Election 1918: Greenock ^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Col Godfrey Collins	10,933
	Coalition Conservative	Samuel Chapman	7,246
	Socialist	F. Shaw	2,542
	Labour	N. Haughey	2,050

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1924: Greenock ^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Godfrey Collins	12,752
	Communist	A. Geddes	7,590
	Labour	S. Kelly	5,874

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Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Greenock ^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Col Rt Hon Sir Godfrey Collins KBE CMG	18,013
	Labour	T. Irwin	10,850
	Communist	A. Ferguson	6,440

General Election, November 1935: Greenock
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Sir Godfrey Collins	20,299	52.7	+1.6
	Labour	T. Irwin	16,945	44.0	+13.3
	SNP	J. L. Kinloch	1,286	3.3	N/A
Majority			3,354	8.7	−15.7
Turnout			38,530	84.4	+4.1
	National Liberal hold		Swing	−5.9

Greenock by-election, 26 November 1936 ^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Gibson	20,594	53.4	+9.4
	National Liberal	V. E. Cornelius	17,990	46.6	−6.1
Majority			2,604	6.8	N/A
Turnout			38,584	83.3	−1.1
	Labour hold		Swing	7.85

Elections in the 1940s

By-election 1941: Greenock ^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hector McNeil	unopposed

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References

^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
^ Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
^ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1944

Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

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