North Angus and Mearns (UK Parliament Constituency)

Election Results

General Election 1979: North Angus and Mearns
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alick Buchanan-Smith	18,302	57.5%
	SNP	I Murray	7,387	23.2%
	Labour	H McMahon	6,132	19.3%
Majority			10,915	34.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election Oct 1974: North Angus and Mearns
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alick Buchanan-Smith	11,835
	SNP	I Murray	9,284
	Labour	J.M.S. McEwan	3,344
	Liberal	Malcolm Bruce	2,700
Majority			2,551
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election Feb 1974: North Angus and Mearns
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alick Buchanan-Smith	14,288	48.79%
	SNP	H Rankin	6,837	23.35%
	Liberal	J C Hall	4,412	15.07%
	Labour	A A C Stanley	3,745	12.79%
Majority			7,451
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1970: North Angus and Mearns
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alick Buchanan-Smith	14,687	53.08%
	Labour	J Gourlay	5,092	18.40%
	SNP	J A McGuigan	4,677	16.90%
	Liberal	J J Grimond	3,312	11.61%
Majority			9,595
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1966: North Angus and Mearns
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alick Buchanan-Smith	13,286	50.40%
	Liberal	Kenneth Alfred John Barton	7,756	29.42%
	Labour	Christopher Thomas Walker	5,318	20.17%
Majority			5,530
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1964: North Angus and Mearns
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alick Buchanan-Smith	13,401	49.30%
	Liberal	Kenneth Alfred John Barton	9,268	34.10%
	Labour	K M Klopper	4,513	16.60%
Majority			4,133
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1959: North Angus and Mearns
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley OBE TD	17,536
	Labour	R. Hughes	8,486
Majority			9,050
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1955: North Angus and Mearns
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley OBE TD	18,516	68.99%
	Labour	C Buick	8,323	31.01%
Majority			10,193	37.98%
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1951: North Angus and Mearns
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley OBE TD	18,515	64.13%
	Labour	John Mackie	10,356	35.87%
Majority			8,159	28.26%
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1950: North Angus and Mearns
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley OBE TD	15,485	51.58%
	Labour	James Robertson Justice	8,304	27.66%
	Liberal	Tom Adam	6,233	20.67%
Majority			7,181	23.92%
	Conservative hold		Swing

“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“... dependence upon material possessions inevitably results in the destruction of human character.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)

North Angus and Mearns (UK Parliament Constituency) - Election Results