Peebles and Southern Midlothian was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1918 to 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Boundaries
The Peebles and Southern Midlothian constituency was described in the Representation of the People Act 1918 as comprising: The county of Peebles with all the burghs situated therein, and the Gala Water and Lasswade County Districts of Midlothian (except that part of the latter district which is included in the Northern Division) with all burghs situated therein except the burghs of Leith and Musselburgh.
Until 1918 the area of the constituency was, at least nominally, partly within the Peebles and Selkirk constituency and partly within the Midlothian constituency.
When the constituency was abolished in 1950 the Midlothian and Peeblesshire constituency was created.
Members of Parliament
Election Member Party1918Sir Donald Maclean Previously MP for Peebles and SelkirkLiberal1922 Joseph Westwood Labour1923192419291931Archibald Maule RamsayInterned under Defence Regulation 18B in 1940 on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathiserUnionist19351945David Pryde Subsequently member for Midlothian and Peebles Labour 1950 constituency abolished
Election results Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
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 and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; Unionist: Labour: David PrydeReport of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
Elections in the 1940s
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