Galloway was a county constituency in the Galloway area of Scotland. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system.
It was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituency.
Members of Parliament ElectionMemberParty 1918 Gilbert McMicking Coalition Liberal 1922 Cecil Dudgeon Liberal 1924 Sir Arthur Henniker-Hughan, Bt. Unionist 1925 by-election Sidney Streatfeild Unionist 1929 Cecil Dudgeon Liberal 1931 New Party 1931 John Mackie Unionist 1959 by-election John Brewis Unionist Oct 1974 George Thompson SNP 1979 Ian Lang Conservative 1983constituency abolished
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: John Mackie
John Mackie was denied an official endorsement from the Scottish Unionists because of his involvement with the pro-Fascist Right Book Club. He regained the whip in 1948.
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
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