Sir Patrick Johnstone Ford, 1st Baronet (5 March 1880 – 28 September 1945) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.

Ford was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Edinburgh North

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 on his first attempt, at a by-election

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 in 1920. He was re-elected in 1922 general election

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, but was defeated in 1923

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 by the Liberal Party

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 candidate Peter Raffan

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. He regained the seat at the 1924 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1924

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, and held it until he stepped down at the 1935 general election

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Ford was made a baronet

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in 1929, of Westerdunes, East Lothian.