Kinross and Western Perthshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1983, representing, at any one time, a seat for one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first past the post system of election.
Boundaries
The constituency was first defined by the Representation of the People Act 1918, and first used in the 1918 general election, as one of two county constituencies covering the county of Kinross and the county of Perth. The other was the Perth constituency.
Prior to the 1918 election the county of Kinross was covered, nominally, by Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire, which also covered, nominally, the county of Clackmannan, and the county of Perth was covered, nominally, by Eastern Perthshire, Perth (as a burgh constituency) and Western Perthshire. Constituency boundaries were defined in terms of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832 and the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885
For the February 1974 general election, as a result of the Second Periodical Review of the Boundary Commission, there were minor alterations to the boundaries of the Kinross and West Perthshire constituency and the Perth and East Perthshire constituency. Kinross and West Perthshire was defined as covering the county of Kinross and the Central, Highland and Western districts of the county of Perth, including the county of Perth burghs of Aberfeldy, Auchterarder, Callander, Crieff, Doune, Dunblane and Pitlochry.
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| 1918
|rowspan="3" | James Gardiner
| Coalition Liberal
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| Jan 1922
| National Liberal
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| Nov 1923
| Liberal
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| Dec 1923
| The Duchess of Atholl
| Unionist
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| 1938 by-election
| William McNair Snadden
| Unionist
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| 1955
| Gilmour Leburn
| Unionist
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| 1963 by-election
| Sir Alec Douglas-Home
| Conservative
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| October 1974
| Sir Nicholas Fairbairn
| Conservative
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| colspan="2" | 1983
| colspan="2" | Constituency abolished: see Perth and Kinross
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Election results
Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1920s
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Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1939–40:
Another General Election was due to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for that election and by autumn 1939, the following candidates had been selected:
- Unionist: William McNair Snadden
- Liberal: Mary Isabella MacDonald
Elections in the 1940s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
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