Coatbridge and Airdrie
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1950–1983
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Coatbridge and Airdrie was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) from 1950 until 1983.
| Coatbridge and Airdrie | |
|---|---|
| Former burgh constituency for the House of Commons | |
| Subdivision | Lanarkshire |
| Major settlements | Coatbridge, Airdrie |
| 1950–1983 | |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Coatbridge |
| Replaced by | Monklands East and Monklands West[1] |
It was then replaced by the Monklands West constituency.
Boundaries
The constituency location was in northern Lanarkshire, to the north of Bothwell and to the east of Glasgow. From 1885 until 1983 Coatbridge and Airdrie were linked for parliamentary purposes. The seat was named Coatbridge and Airdrie after 1950.
In the 1885 to 1918 period the area formed the county constituency of Coatbridge. In the 1918 redistribution the burgh constituency of Coatbridge was created. The seat was defined in 1918 as comprising the burghs of Airdrie and Coatbridge.
The change in the constituency name in 1950 did not affect the boundaries. Apart from a small boundary change to Airdrie, which took effect for parliamentary purposes in 1955, its boundaries did not alter until the areas parliamentary representation was remodelled in 1983.
From the 1983 general election the area was divided between two new seats. It provided the majority of the electorate for both Monklands East and Monklands West. 34,802 electors in the old seat were included in the new East constituency (57.1% of the old seat and 72.2% of the new one). 26,148 voters found themselves in Monklands West (42.9% of the old seat and 53.4% of the new one).
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Jean Mann | Labour | |
| 1959 | James Dempsey | Labour | |
| 1982 by-election | Tom Clarke | Labour | |
| 1983 | constituency abolished | ||
Election results
Elections in the 1950s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Jean Mann | 23,239 | 56.53 | ||
| Unionist | James McMillan | 16,552 | 40.27 | ||
| Anti-Partition | TP O'Callaghan | 1,315 | 3.20 | ||
| Majority | 6,687 | 16.26 | |||
| Turnout | 47,841 | 85.92 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Jean Mann | 22,269 | 55.85 | −1.52 | |
| Unionist | David Anderson | 17,605 | 44.15 | +1.52 | |
| Majority | 4,664 | 11.70 | −3.04 | ||
| Turnout | 39,874 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Dempsey | 22,747 | 50.89 | −4.96 | |
| Unionist | Catherine S Morton | 21,953 | 49.11 | +4.96 | |
| Majority | 794 | 1.78 | −9.92 | ||
| Turnout | 44,700 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Dempsey | 27,178 | 62.11 | +11.22 | |
| Unionist | Andrew Thomson | 16,580 | 37.89 | −11.22 | |
| Majority | 10,598 | 24.22 | +22.44 | ||
| Turnout | 43,758 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Dempsey | 26,491 | 64.19 | +2.08 | |
| Conservative | William C Raeburn | 14,777 | 35.81 | −2.08 | |
| Majority | 11,714 | 28.38 | +4.16 | ||
| Turnout | 41,268 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Dempsey | 26,117 | 58.88 | −5.31 | |
| Conservative | William Rennie | 15,574 | 35.11 | −0.70 | |
| SNP | Wolseley Brown | 2,667 | 6.01 | New | |
| Majority | 10,543 | 23.77 | −4.62 | ||
| Turnout | 44,358 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Dempsey | 24,945 | 54.15 | −4.73 | |
| Conservative | C Anderson | 13,162 | 28.57 | −6.54 | |
| SNP | D R M Hill | 7,961 | 17.28 | +11.27 | |
| Majority | 11,783 | 25.58 | +1.81 | ||
| Turnout | 46,068 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Dempsey | 23,034 | 51.61 | −2.54 | |
| SNP | D R M Hill | 12,466 | 27.93 | +10.65 | |
| Conservative | John Love | 7,683 | 17.22 | −11.35 | |
| Liberal | A Smith | 1,446 | 3.24 | New | |
| Majority | 10,568 | 23.68 | −1.90 | ||
| Turnout | 44,629 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Dempsey | 27,598 | 60.9 | +9.3 | |
| Conservative | J. Love | 12,442 | 27.5 | +10.3 | |
| SNP | M. Johnston | 5,260 | 11.6 | −16.3 | |
| Majority | 15,156 | 33.4 | +9.7 | ||
| Turnout | 45,300 | 75.3 | |||
| Registered electors | 60,133 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1980s
- Death of James Dempsey
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Tom Clarke | 19,208 | 55.1 | −5.8 | |
| Conservative | Hugo de Burgh | 9,118 | 26.2 | −1.3 | |
| SNP | Ron Wyllie | 3,652 | 10.5 | −1.1 | |
| Liberal | Sandy Henderson | 2,873 | 8.2 | New | |
| Majority | 10,090 | 28.9 | −4.5 | ||
| Turnout | 34,951 | 56.3 | −19.0 | ||
| Registered electors | 61,876 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||