Edinburgh North was a burgh constituency of the

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of the

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from 1918 to 1983. It elected one

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(MP) using the

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voting system.

Boundaries

In 1918 the constituency consisted of the "Broughton, Calton, St. Andrew's and St. Stephen's Municipal Wards of Edinburgh."

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939–40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected; *Unionist:

Alexander Erskine-Hill Sir Alexander Galloway Erskine Erskine-Hill, 1st Baronet (3 April 1894 – 6 June 1947) was a Unionist Party (Scotland), Scottish Unionist Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), member of parliament (MP) for Edinburgh Nort ...

*Labour: Gerald Walker Crawford

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Edinburgh North (Uk Parliament Constituency) Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1983 Constituencies in Edinburgh