Midlothian (constituency, UK)

This article covers the constituency for the UK Parliament. For the constituency for the Scottish Parliament, see Midlothian (constituency, Scotland) .

Midlothian
Educated
1955
MP
Owen Thompson ( SNP )
Regions
Midlothian

Midlothian is a constituency for the British House of Commons . It was created in 1955 from the dissolved constituency of Midlothian and Peebles . Since the 2005 constituency reform, the constituency has fully covered the Midlothian Council Area . Previously, the city of Penicuik was in the dissolved neighboring constituency of Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale . The constituency sends a representative.

Election results

General election 1955

Results of the general election in 1955
Political party	candidate	be right	%
Labor	David Pryde	25,994	60.2
Conservative	YES Stoddart	17.208	39.8

General election 1959

Results of the general election in 1959
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	James Hill	28,457	60.2	± 0.0
Conservative	William S. How	18,797	39.8	± 0.0

General election 1964

Results of the 1964 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	James Hill	29,820	61.3	+1.1
Conservative	Michael Clark Hutchison	18,861	38.7	−1.1

General election 1966

Results of the 1966 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Alex Eadie	27.608	56.6	−4.7
Conservative	John LG Lamotte	13,192	27.1	−11.6
SNP	Steven Rae	7974	16.4	+16.4

General election 1970

Results of the 1970 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Alex Eadie	30.802	53.0	−3.6
Conservative	John LG Lamotte	18,328	31.5	+4.4
SNP	George Park	9047	15.6	−0.8

General election February 1974

Results of the February 1974 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Alex Eadie	32,220	44.7	−8.3
Conservative	D. Mowat	20,478	28.4	−3.1
SNP	JG McKinlay	19,450	27.0	+11.4

General election October 1974

Results of the October 1974 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Alex Eadie	28,652	41.5	−3.2
SNP	JG McKinlay	24,568	35.6	+8.6
Conservative	A. Ballantyne	11,046	16.0	−12.4
Liberal	P. Wheeler	4793	6.9	+6.9

General election 1979

Results of the 1979 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Alex Eadie	37,733	47.8	+6.3
Conservative	HW man	20,797	26.4	+10.4
SNP	GAF Spiers	13,260	16.8	−18.8
Liberal	AP Brodie	7129	9.0	+2.1

General election 1983

Results of the 1983 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Alex Eadie	19,401	42.7	−5.1
SDP	AR Dewar	13,245	29.2	+29.2
Conservative	DAY Menzies	9922	21.9	−4.5
SNP	MJ Hird	2826	6.2	−10.6

General election 1987

Results of the 1987 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Alex Eadie	22,553	48.3	+5.6
SDP	AR Dewar	10,300	22.0	−7.2
Conservative	FG Riddell	8527	18.2	−3.7
SNP	IM Chisholm	4947	10.6	+4.4
Green	IA Smith	412	0.9	+0.9

General election 1992

Results of the general election in 1992
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Eric Clarke	20,588	43.9	−4.4
SNP	Andrew Lumsden	10,254	21.9	+11.3
Conservative	Jeff Stoddart	9443	20.1	+1.9
Liberal Democrats	Paul L. Sewell	6164	13.1	+13.1
Green	Iain D. Morrice	476	1.0	+0.1

General election 1997

Results of the 1997 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Eric Clarke	18,861	53.5	+9.6
SNP	Lawrence Millar	8991	25.5	+3.6
Conservative	Anne C. Harper	3842	10.9	−9.2
Liberal Democrats	Richard F. Pinnock	3235	9.2	−3.9
Referendum party	Keith K. Docking	320	0.9	+0.9

General election 2001

Results of the 2001 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	David Hamilton	15,145	52.7	−0.8
SNP	Ian Roy Goldie	6131	21.3	−4.2
Liberal Democrats	Jacqueline Dianne Bell	3686	12.8	+3.6
Conservative	Robin James Traquair	2748	9.6	−1.3
Socialist	Robert Paul Goupillot	837	2.9	+2.9
ProLife Alliance	Terence John Edward Holden	177	0.6	+0.6

General election 2005

Results of the general election 2005
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	David Hamilton	17,153	45.5	−7.2
Liberal Democrats	Fred Mackintosh	9888	26.2	+13.4
SNP	Colin Beattie	6400	17.0	−4.3
Conservative	Iain McGill	3537	9.4	−0.2
Socialist	Norman V. Gilfillan	726	1.9	−1.0

General election 2010

Results of the 2010 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	David Hamilton	18,449	47.0	+1.5
SNP	Colin Beattie	8100	20.6	+3.6
Liberal Democrats	Ross Laird	6711	17.1	−9.1
Conservative	James E. Callander	4611	11.9	+2.5
Green	Ian G. Baxter	595	1.5	+1.5
UKIP	Gordon Norrie	364	0.9	+0.9
Non-party	George McCleery	196	0.5	+0.5
TUSC	Willie C. Duncan	166	0.4	+0.4

General election 2015

Results of the general election 2015
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
SNP	Owen Thompson	24,453	50.6	+30.0
Labor	Kenny Young	14,594	30.2	−16.8
Conservative	Michelle Ballantyne	5760	11.9	± 0.0
Green	Ian Baxter	1219	2.5	+1.0
UKIP	Gordon Norrie	1173	2.4	+1.5
Liberal Democrats	Ross Laird	1132	2.3	−14.8

General election 2017

Results of the 2017 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
Labor	Danielle Rowley	16,458	36.4	+6.2
SNP	Owen Thompson	15,573	34.4	−16.2
Conservative	Chris Donnelly	11,521	25.4	+13.5
Liberal Democrats	Ross Laird	1721	3.8	+1.5

General election 2019

Results of the 2017 general election
Political party	candidate	be right	%	±
SNP	Owen Thompson	20,033	41.5	+7.1
Labor	Danielle Rowley	14,328	29.7	−6.6
Conservative	Rebecca Fraser	10,467	21.7	−3.7
Liberal Democrats	Steve Arrundale	3,393	7.0	+3.2

Individual evidence

1. ^ Map of the constituency
2. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1955 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1959 ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Results of the 1964 general election ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Results of the 1966 general election ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Results of the 1970 lower house elections ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Results of the February 1974 general election ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in October 1974 ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Results of the 1979 lower house elections ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Results of the parliamentary elections in 1983 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1987 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Results of the 1992 general election ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the general election 1997 and 2001 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ Results of the lower house elections 2005 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ Results of the general election 2010 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
16. ↑ ^{a b} Midlothian. In: BBC News . Retrieved December 13, 2019 (results from 2017 and 2015 are at the bottom). 
17. ^ Election 2019 - Midlothian. In: BBC News . Retrieved December 13, 2019 .