Angus North and Mearns, Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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 from 1950 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

It was unsuccessfully contested in 1950 by the actor James Robertson Justice

James Robertson Justice

James Robertson Justice was a popular British character actor in British films of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.-Biography:...

.

Boundaries

The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1948

Representation of the People Act 1948

The Representation of the People Act 1948 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered the law relating to parliamentary and local elections...

, and was defined as consisting of:

• The county of Kincardine
  Kincardineshire
  The County of Kincardine, also known as Kincardineshire or The Mearns was a local government county on the coast of northeast Scotland...
  
   inclusive of all the burgh
  Burgh
  A burgh was an autonomous corporate entity in Scotland and Northern England, usually a town. This type of administrative division existed from the 12th century, when King David I created the first royal burghs. Burgh status was broadly analogous to borough status, found in the rest of the United...
  
  s situated therein;
• In the county of Angus
  Angus
  Angus is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and Dundee City...
  
  
  • The burghs of Brechin
    Brechin
    Brechin is a former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. Traditionally Brechin is often described as a city because of its cathedral and its status as the seat of a pre-Reformation Roman Catholic diocese , but that status has not been officially recognised in the modern era...
    
     and Montrose
    Montrose, Angus
    Montrose is a coastal resort town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. It is situated 38 miles north of Dundee between the mouths of the North and South Esk rivers...
    
    ;
  • The districts of Brechin and Montrose.

Redistribution

The boundaries of the constituency were unaltered at the next redistribution of seats, which came into effect in 1974. Counties and burghs were abolished for local government purposes in 1975

Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973

The Local Government Act 1973 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, that reformed local government in Scotland, on May 16, 1975....

, but parliamentary boundaries were unaffected until 1983. In that year the constituency was abolished. A new Kincardine and Deeside constituency

Kincardine and Deeside (UK Parliament constituency)

Kincardine and Deeside was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 1997. It was mainly replaced by West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, apart from the parts of the seat within the borders of Aberdeen City Council, which joined...

 was formed with similar boundaries.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. Despite polling over one and a half million votes more than the Conservatives, the election, held on 23 February 1950 resulted in Labour receiving a slim majority of just five...	Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley Colin Thornton-Kemsley Sir Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley OBE, TD was a Conservative and National Liberal politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire from 1939 to 1950, and for North Angus and Mearns from 1950 until his retirement at the 1964 general...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...  & National Liberal National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) The National Liberal Party, known until 1948 as the Liberal National Party, was a liberal political party in the United Kingdom from 1931 to 1968...
	1964 United Kingdom general election, 1964 The United Kingdom general election of 1964 was held on 15 October 1964, more than five years after the preceding election, and thirteen years after the Conservative Party had retaken power...	Alick Buchanan-Smith Alick Buchanan-Smith Alick Laidlaw Buchanan-Smith was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist politician.The second son of Alick Drummond Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno and Mary Kathleen Smith, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Glenalmond College, Pembroke College, Cambridge and University of Edinburgh...	Conservative
1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945...		constituency abolished

Election results