The Combined Scottish Universities was a three-member
university constituency of the
House of Commons of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom from
1918
This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events ...
until
1950
Events January
* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...
. It was created by merging the single-member constituencies of
Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities and
Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities.
Boundaries
The constituency was not a physical area but was rather elected by the graduates of the Scottish Universities of
St Andrews
St Andrews ( la, S. Andrea(s); sco, Saunt Aundraes; gd, Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fou ...
,
Edinburgh,
Glasgow and
Aberdeen.
The constituency returned three
Members of Parliament to Westminster, elected by
Single Transferable Vote. The by-elections used the
first past the post voting system.
This
University constituency was created by the
Representation of the People Act 1918
The Representation of the People Act 1918 was an Act of Parliament passed to reform the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland. It is sometimes known as the Fourth Reform Act. The Act extended the franchise in parliamentary elections, also ...
and abolished in 1950 by the
Representation of the People Act 1948.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1940s
References
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Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
University constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Constituencies
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1950
Higher education in Scotland
1918 establishments in Scotland