Election Results
| Election | Political result | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By-election 26 Feb 1914 Electorate: 17,705 Turnout: 77.1% |
Conservative gain from Liberal Majority: 16 (0.1%) |
George Welsh Currie | Conservative | 5,159 | 37.8 | −5.0 | ||
| Malcolm Smith | Liberal | 5,143 | 37.7 | −19.5 | ||||
| Joseph Nicholas Bell | Labour | 3,346 | 24.5 | N/A | ||||
| General Election Dec 1910 Electorate: 17,987 Turnout: 68.7% |
Liberal hold Majority: 1,785 (14.4%) Swing: 9.5% from LibU to Lib |
Ronald Munro Ferguson | Liberal | 7,069 | 57.2 | +7.6 | ||
| Frederick Alexander Macquisten | Conservative | 5,284 | 42.8 | +11.3 | ||||
| General Election Jan 1910 Electorate: 17,351 Turnout: 83.0% |
Liberal hold Majority: 2,606 (18.1%) |
Ronald Munro Ferguson | Liberal | 7,146 | 49.6 | −11.6 | ||
| Sir Robert Cranston | Liberal Unionist | 4,540 | 31.5 | −7.3 | ||||
| William Walker | Labour | 2,724 | 18.9 | N/A | ||||
| General Election 1906 Electorate: 16,974 Turnout: 73.9% |
Liberal hold Majority: 2,802 (22.4%) |
Ronald Munro Ferguson | Liberal | 7,677 | 61.2 | +7.6 | ||
| Frank T. Cooper KC | Liberal Unionist | 4,865 | 38.8 | −7.6 | ||||
| General Election 1900 Electorate: 15,484 Turnout: 11,269 (72.8%) |
Liberal hold Majority: 817 (7.2%) |
Ronald Munro Ferguson | Liberal | 6,043 | 53.6 | −2.8 | ||
| Edward Theodore Salvesen | Liberal Unionist | 5,226 | 46.4 | +2.8 | ||||
| General Election 1895 Electorate: 13,982 Turnout: 73.8% |
Liberal hold Majority: 1,325 (12.8%) |
Ronald Munro Ferguson | Liberal | 5,819 | 55.4 | +1.0 | ||
| John Wilson | Liberal Unionist | 4,494 | 44.6 | −1.0 | ||||
| General Election 1892 Electorate: 13,198 Turnout: 74.5% |
Liberal hold Majority: 1,643 (16.8%) |
Ronald Munro Ferguson | Liberal | 5,738 | 58.4 | |||
| William Alexander Bell | Liberal Unionist | 4,095 | 41.6 | |||||
| By-election 20 Aug 1886 Electorate: 11,779 Turnout: 61.4% |
Liberal hold Majority: 2,676 (37.1%) |
Ronald Munro Ferguson | Liberal | 4,204 | 58.2 | |||
| Donald Robert Macgregor | Independent Liberal Unionist | 1,528 | 21.1 | |||||
| William Jacks | Liberal Unionist | 1,499 | 20.7 | |||||
| H. Munster | Independent Liberal Unionist | 3 | 0.0 | |||||
| General Election 1886 | Liberal hold | William Ewart Gladstone | Liberal | unopposed | ||||
| General Election 1885 Electorate: 11,779 Turnout: 75.0% |
Liberal hold Majority: 3,870 (43.8%) |
William Jacks | Liberal | 6,355 | 71.9 | N/A | ||
| William David Thorburn | Conservative | 2,485 | 28.1 | N/A | ||||
| General Election 1880 Electorate: 10,333 |
Liberal hold | Andrew Grant | Liberal | unopposed | ||||
| By-election 29 Jan 1878 Electorate: 9,739 |
Liberal hold | Andrew Grant | Liberal | 4,929 | ||||
| C. W. Tennant | Conservative | 1,788 | ||||||
| General Election 1874 Electorate: 8,248 |
Liberal hold | Donald Robert Macgregor | Liberal | 4,489 | ||||
| Robert Andrew Macfie | Liberal | 1,945 | ||||||
| General Election 1868 Electorate: 6,223 |
Liberal hold | Robert Andrew Macfie | Liberal | 2,907 | ||||
| William Miller | Liberal | 2,310 | ||||||
| General Election 1859 Electorate: 2,139 |
Liberal hold | William Miller | Liberal | 904 | ||||
| Robert Andrew Macfie | Liberal | 746 | ||||||
| General Election 1857 Electorate: 1,973 |
Liberal hold | James Moncreiff | Liberal | 821 | ||||
| William Miller | Liberal | 701 | ||||||
| General Election 1852 Electorate: 2,027 |
Liberal hold | James Moncreiff | Liberal | 643 | ||||
| T. W. Henderson | Conservative | 407 | ||||||
| By-election 11 April 1851 | Liberal hold | James Moncreiff | Liberal | unopposed | ||||
| General Election 1847 Electorate: 1,888 |
Liberal hold | Andrew Rutherfurd | Liberal | unopposed | ||||
| General Election 1841 Electorate: 1,732 |
Liberal hold | Andrew Rutherfurd | Liberal | unopposed | ||||
| By-election 1839 | Liberal hold | Andrew Rutherfurd | Liberal | unopposed | ||||
| General Election 1837 Electorate: 2,171 |
Liberal hold | John Archibald Murray | Liberal | unopposed | ||||
| General Election 1835 Electorate: 1,838 |
Liberal hold | John Archibald Murray | Liberal | unopposed | ||||
| General Election 1832 Electorate: 1,624 |
Liberal win | John Archibald Murray | Liberal | unopposed | ||||
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