WEST RENFREWSHIRE (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

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'West Renfrewshire' was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983 and again from 1997 until 2005. In 2005 the constituency was abolished and the area is now represented by Inverclyde, Paisley and Renfrewshire North and Paisley and Renfrewshire South.

Contents

Boundaries

Member of Parliament

MPs 1885-1983

MPs 1997-2005

Election results

Politics and history of the constituency

Boundaries

From 1918 the constituency consisted of "The Lower county District, inclusive of all burghs situated therein, except the burgh of Greenock, together with the burgh of Johnstone."

Member of Parliament

MPs 1885-1983

★ 1885 Sir Archibald Campbell Conservative

★ 1892 Sir Charles Bine Renshaw Conservative

★ 1906 Sir Thomas Glen Glen-Coats Liberal

★ 1910 James William Greig Liberal

★ 1922 Robert Murray, father of David Stark Murray

★ 1924 Archibald Douglas MacInnes Shaw Conservative

★ 1929 Robert Forgan Labour

★ 1931 Henry James Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, later Earl of Dundee Conservative

★ 1945 Thomas Scollan

★ 1950 John Scott Maclay, later Viscount Muirshiel

★ 1964 Norman Findlay Buchan (to 1983)

★ 1983 ''constuency abolished''

MPs 1997-2005

★ 1997 ''constituency recreated''

★ 1997 Thomas Graham

★ 2001 James Sheridan

Election results

Politics and history of the constituency