Editing University constituency (section)

==United Kingdom==

King [[James VI of Scotland]], on ascending the [[English throne]], brought to the [[English Parliament]] a practice which endured in the [[Parliament of Scotland|Scottish Parliament]] of allowing the universities to elect members. The king believed that the universities were often affected by the decisions of Parliament, and ought therefore to have representation in it. James gave the [[University of Cambridge]] and the [[University of Oxford]] two seats each from 1603. On the formal [[Treaty of Union, 1707|Union]] (1707), [[Scottish universities]] lost their representatives as none were appointed to the [[Parliament of Great Britain]] (at [[Westminster]]). The voters were the graduates of the university, whether they were resident or not;<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ratcliffe |first1=Mike |title=The history of university representation |url=https://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-history-of-university-representation/ |website=Wonkhe |publisher=Wonkhe Ltd. |access-date=7 August 2021}}</ref> they could vote for the university seats in addition to any other vote that they might have{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}.

After the [[Act of Union 1800]] with [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]], the [[University of Dublin]] ([[Trinity College Dublin|Trinity College]]), which had elected two MPs to the [[Parliament of Ireland]] since 1613, was allowed one member from 1801 and two from 1832.

In 1868, three new one-member seats were created: [[University of London]]; [[University of Glasgow|Glasgow]] and [[University of Aberdeen|Aberdeen]] universities combined; and [[University of St Andrews|St Andrews]] and [[University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh]] universities combined.

In 1918, the [[Queen's University of Belfast]] and the [[National University of Ireland]] each received seats. Both these, as well as the University of Dublin, also received four seats in the devolved [[Parliament of Northern Ireland|Stormont]] parliament and the [[Southern Ireland (1921–22)|Southern Ireland]] parliament respectively that were established in 1920 and first used in elections in 1921. Also in 1918, the Scottish universities switched to all electing three members jointly (see [[Combined Scottish Universities]]).

In 1918, all the other English universities (i.e. except for Cambridge, Oxford and London) were enfranchised as a single constituency with two seats, as [[Combined English Universities]]. They were [[University of Birmingham|Birmingham]], [[University of Bristol|Bristol]], [[Durham University|Durham]], [[University of Leeds|Leeds]], [[University of Liverpool|Liverpool]], [[University of Manchester|Manchester]], and [[University of Sheffield|Sheffield]]. [[University of Reading|Reading]] was added in August 1928. The [[University of Wales]] also received one seat in 1918.

1918 also saw the introduction of the [[single transferable vote]] for university constituencies.<ref>{{cite web |date=28 January 2015 |title=The history of university representation |url=https://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-history-of-university-representation/ |access-date=7 August 2021 |website=Wonkhe}}</ref>

===Abolition===
The [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] government in 1930 attempted to abolish the university constituencies but was defeated in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]]. Although the members for the university constituencies were usually [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]], in the later years independent candidates began to win many of the seats. The Labour government finally abolished the university constituencies via the [[Representation of the People Act 1948]], with effect from the dissolution of Parliament in 1950, along with all other examples of [[plural voting]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Registrar General|title=The Registrar General's Statistical Review of England and Wales For the Five Years 1946-1950|publisher=Her Majesty’s Stationery Office|year=1954|location=London|pages=175}}</ref>

The [[Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)|Queen's University, Belfast]] constituency survived in the [[Parliament of Northern Ireland]] until it was abolished in 1968 (with effect from the dissolution of Parliament in 1969) by the [[Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1968]] (c. 20 (N.I.)).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1968/20/introduction |title=Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 |website=legislation.gov.uk |access-date=19 January 2018 |date=28 November 1968}}</ref> This was one of several measures by the then Northern Ireland Prime Minister [[Terence O'Neill]] to reform elements of the election franchise and deal with many long-standing civil rights grievances.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}

===Notable members===
The members for the university constituencies include many notable statesmen: [[William Pitt the Younger]] and [[Lord Palmerston]] both served as MPs for Cambridge University, and [[Robert Peel]] and [[William Ewart Gladstone]] each served as MP for Oxford University for portions of their careers. In his last years [[Ramsay MacDonald]] was MP for Combined Scottish Universities after losing his previous seat in the [[1935 United Kingdom general election|1935 general election]]. Many criticised this, as he had previously sought to abolish the seats whilst Labour prime minister and many now felt the seats were being used to provide a failed politician with a seat he could not find elsewhere.

The humorist and law reform activist [[A. P. Herbert]] sat as an independent member for Oxford University from 1935 to 1950. He described the counting of the votes at the 1935 election in a chapter entitled '''P.R.': Or, Standing for Oxford'' in his 1936 book ''[[Mild and Bitter]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mild and Bitter |chapter=XV: 'PR': Or, Standing for Oxford |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tX6vDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA71 |last=Herbert |first=A. P. |author-link=A. P. Herbert |year=1936 |publisher=[[Methuen Publishing|Methuen]] |location=London |isbn=9780755151578|oclc=559753655}}</ref>

=== List of members ===
Only members after 1885 are shown.

{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2" |Election
! colspan="30" |Members
|-
! colspan="4" |[[Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency)|Cambridge<br />Uni.]]
! colspan="4" |[[Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency)|Oxford<br />Uni.]]
! colspan="2" |[[London University (UK Parliament constituency)|London<br />Uni.]]
! colspan="8" rowspan="23" |
! colspan="2" |[[Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities (UK Parliament constituency)|Edinburgh &<br/>St Andrews Uni.]]
! colspan="2" |[[Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities (UK Parliament constituency)|Glasgow &<br />Aberdeen Uni.]]
! colspan="4" rowspan="23" |
! colspan="4" |[[Dublin University (constituency)|Dublin Uni.]]
|-
![[1885 United Kingdom general election|1885]]
| rowspan="5" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="5" |[[Henry Cecil Raikes|Raikes]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="2" |[[Alexander Beresford Hope|Hope]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="15" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="15" |[[John Gilbert Talbot|Talbot]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="10" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="10" |[[Sir John Mowbray, 1st Baronet|Mowbray]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="11" |[[John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury|Lubbock]]<br />{{small|([[Liberal Party (UK)|Lib]] →<br/>[[Liberal Unionist Party|Lib U]])}}
| rowspan="3" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="3" |[[John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh|J. Macdonald]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="14" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="14" |[[James Alexander Campbell (politician)|Campbell]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="2" |[[Hugh Holmes|Holmes]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="6" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="8" |[[David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore|Plunket]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]] → [[Irish Unionist Alliance|IUA]])}}
|-
![[1886 United Kingdom general election|1886]]
| rowspan="10" style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Unionist Party}};" |
|-
!1887 (b)
| rowspan="4" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="4" |[[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet|Stokes]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="4" style="background-color:{{party color|Irish Unionist Alliance}};" |
| rowspan="4" |[[Dodgson Hamilton Madden|Madden]]<br />{{small|([[Irish Unionist Alliance|IUA]])}}
|-
!1888 (b)
| style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};" |
|[[Moir Tod Stormonth Darling, Lord Stormonth-Darling|Darling]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
!1890 (b)
| rowspan="5" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="5" |[[Charles John Pearson|Pearson]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
!1891 (b)
| rowspan="9" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="9" |[[Richard Claverhouse Jebb|Jebb]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
![[1892 United Kingdom general election|1892]]
| rowspan="8" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="8" |[[John Eldon Gorst|Gorst]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="16" style="background-color:{{party color|Irish Unionist Alliance}};" |
| rowspan="16" |[[Edward Carson|Carson]]<br />{{small|([[Irish Unionist Alliance|IUA]])}}
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Irish Unionist Alliance}};" |
|-
![[1895 United Kingdom general election|1895]]
|-
!1895 (b)
| rowspan="5" style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Unionist Party}};" |
| rowspan="5" |[[William Edward Hartpole Lecky|Lecky]]<br />{{small|([[Liberal Unionist Party|Lib U]])}}
|-
!1896 (b)
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="2" |[[William Overend Priestley|Priestley]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
!1899 (b)
| rowspan="8" style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Unionist Party}};" |
| rowspan="9" |[[Sir William Anson, 3rd Baronet|Anson]]<br />{{small|([[Liberal Unionist Party|Lib U]] → [[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
!1900 (b)
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Unionist Party}};" |
| rowspan="3" |[[Michael Foster (physiologist)|Foster]]<br />{{small|([[Liberal Unionist Party|Lib U]] → [[Liberal Party (UK)|Lib]])}}
| rowspan="4" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="4" |[[John Batty Tuke|Tuke]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
![[1900 United Kingdom general election|1900]]
|-
!1903 (b)
| style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="8" style="background-color:{{party color|Irish Unionist Alliance}};" |
| rowspan="8" |[[James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy|Campbell]]<br />{{small|([[Irish Unionist Alliance|IUA]])}}
|-
![[1906 United Kingdom general election|1906]]
| rowspan="3" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="3" |[[Samuel Henry Butcher|Butcher]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="15" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="15" |[[John Rawlinson (politician)|Rawlinson]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="4" style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Unionist Party}};" |
| rowspan="11" |[[Philip Magnus|Magnus]]<br />{{small|([[Liberal Unionist Party|Lib U]] → [[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="8" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="8" |[[Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet|Craik]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
![[January 1910 United Kingdom general election|Jan 1910]]
| rowspan="22" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="22" |[[Hugh Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood|Cecil]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="3" style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Unionist Party}};" |
| rowspan="5" |[[Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay|Finlay]]<br />{{small|([[Liberal Unionist Party|Lib U]] → [[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
![[December 1910 United Kingdom general election|Dec 1910]]
|-
!1911 (b)
| rowspan="8" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="8" |[[Larmor]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
!1912 (b)
| style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="7" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
|-
!1914 (b)
| rowspan="5" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="5" |[[Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle|Prothero]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
!1916 (b)
| style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};" |
|[[Christopher Nicholson Johnston|Johnston]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
! rowspan="2" |1917 (b)
| style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};" |
|[[Sir William Cheyne, 1st Baronet|Cheyne]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="3" style="background-color:{{party color|Irish Unionist Alliance}};" |
| rowspan="3" |[[Arthur Samuels|Samuels]]<br />{{small|([[Irish Unionist Alliance|IUA]])}}
|-
! colspan="4" |[[Combined English Universities (UK Parliament constituency)|Combined English Uni.]]
! colspan="2" |[[University of Wales (UK Parliament constituency)|Uni. of Wales]]
! colspan="6" |[[Combined Scottish Universities (UK Parliament constituency)|Combined Scottish Uni.]]
! colspan="2" |[[Queen's University of Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)|Queen's Uni.<br/>of Belfast]]
! colspan="2" |[[National University of Ireland (constituency)|National Uni.<br/>of Ireland]]
| rowspan="3" style="background-color:{{party color|Independent Conservative}};"|
| rowspan="3" |[[Robert Henry Woods|Woods]]<br />{{small|([[Independent conservative|Ind Con]])}}
|-
![[1918 United Kingdom general election|1918]]
| rowspan="9" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="9" |[[William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington|Conway]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Coalition Liberal}};" |
| rowspan="6" |[[H. A. L. Fisher|Fisher]]<br />{{small|([[Coalition Liberal|Co Lib]] → [[National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)|Nat Lib]] → [[Liberal Party (UK)|Lib]])}}
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Coalition Liberal}};" |
| rowspan="2" |[[John Herbert Lewis|J. Lewis]]<br />{{small|([[Coalition Liberal|Co Lib]])}}
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Coalition Liberal}};" |
| rowspan="10" |[[Dugald McCoig Cowan|Cowan]]<br />{{small|([[Liberal Party (UK)|Lib]])}}
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="2" |[[Sir William Cheyne, 1st Baronet|Cheyne]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="7" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="7" |[[Sir Henry Craik, 1st Baronet|Craik]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="3" style="background-color:{{party color|Ulster Unionist Party}};"|
| rowspan="3" |[[William Whitla|Whitla]]<br />{{small|([[Ulster Unionist Party|UUP]])}}
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Sinn Féin}};"|
| rowspan="2" |[[Eoin MacNeill|MacNeill]]<br />{{small|([[Sinn Féin|SF]])}}
|-
!1919 (b)
| rowspan="11" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="11" |[[Charles Oman|Oman]]<br/>{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| style="background-color:{{party color|Irish Unionist Alliance}};" |
|[[William Jellett|Jellett]]<br />{{small|([[Irish Unionist Alliance|IUA]])}}
|-
![[1922 United Kingdom general election|1922]]
|style="background-color:{{party color|Independent Liberal}};"|
|[[J. R. M. Butler|J. Butler]]<br />{{small|([[Independent Liberal|Ind Lib]])}}
| rowspan="3" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="3" |[[Sydney Russell Russell-Wells|Russell-Wells]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| style="background-color:{{party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)}};" |
| style="background-color:{{party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)}};" |
|[[Thomas Arthur Lewis|T. Lewis]]<br />{{small|([[National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)|Nat Lib]])}}
| rowspan="8" style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="7" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="7" |[[George Andreas Berry|Berry]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
! colspan="6" |[[Anglo-Irish Treaty|Abolished]]
|-
![[1923 United Kingdom general election|1923]]
| rowspan="5" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="5" |[[Geoffrey G. Butler|G. Butler]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="3" style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}};" |
| 
| rowspan="2" |[[George Maitland Lloyd Davies|Davies]]<br />{{small|([[Christian pacifism|Christ. Pacifist]] → [[Labour Party (UK)|Lab]])}}
| rowspan="13" style="background-color:{{party color|Ulster Unionist Party}};"|
| rowspan="13" |[[Thomas Sinclair (politician, 1857–1940)|Sinclair]]<br />{{small|([[Ulster Unionist Party|UUP]])}}
! colspan="6" rowspan="19" |
|-
!1924 (b)
| style="background-color:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}};"|
|-
![[1924 United Kingdom general election|1924]]
| rowspan="4" style="background-color:{{party color|Independent politician}};"|
| rowspan="16" |[[Ernest Graham-Little|Graham-Little]]<br />{{small|([[Independent politician|Ind]] → [[National Government (United Kingdom)|Nat Ind]])}}
| rowspan="12" style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="12" |[[Ernest Evans (politician)|Evans]]<br />{{small|([[Liberal Party (UK)|Lib]])}}
|-
!1926 (b)
| rowspan="10" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="10" |[[John Withers (British politician)|Withers]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="2" |[[Alfred Hopkinson|Hopkinson]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
!1927 (b)
| rowspan="4" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="4" |[[John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir|Buchan]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
![[1929 United Kingdom general election|1929]]
| rowspan="3" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="3" |[[Godfrey Wilson (politician)|Wilson]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="12" style="background-color:{{party color|Independent politician}};" |
| rowspan="12" |[[Eleanor Rathbone|Rathbone]]<br />{{small|([[Independent politician|Ind]])}}
|-
![[1931 United Kingdom general election|1931]]
| rowspan="12" style="background-color:{{party color|National Government (United Kingdom)}};" |
| rowspan="5" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="5" |[[Reginald Henry Craddock|Craddock]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="4" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="4" |[[Noel Skelton|Skelton]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
!1934 (b)
| style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="8" |[[George Morrison (British politician)|Morrison]]<br />{{small|([[Liberal Party (UK)|Lib]] → [[National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)|Nat Lib]])}}
|-
!1935 (b)
| rowspan="10" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="10" |[[Kenneth  Pickthorn|Pickthorn]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| rowspan="7" style="background-color:{{party color|National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)}};" |
| rowspan="10" style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
| rowspan="10" |[[John Graham Kerr|Kerr]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
![[1935 United Kingdom general election|1935]]
| rowspan="9" style="background-color:{{party color|Independent politician}};"|
| rowspan="9" |[[A. P. Herbert|Herbert]]<br />{{small|([[Independent politician|Ind]])}}
|-
!1936 (b)
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|National Labour Organisation}};" |
| rowspan="2" |[[Ramsay MacDonald|R. MacDonald]]<br />{{small|([[National Labour Organisation|Nat Lab]])}}
|-
!1937 (b)
| rowspan="7" style="background-color:{{party color|Independent politician}};"|
| rowspan="7" |[[Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter|Salter]]<br />{{small|([[Independent politician|Ind]])}}
| rowspan="5" style="background-color:{{party color|Independent Progressive}};"|
| rowspan="5" |[[Thomas Edmund Harvey|Harvey]]<br />{{small|([[Independent progressive|Ind prog.]])}}
|-
!1938 (b)
| rowspan="6" style="background-color:{{party color|National Government (United Kingdom)}};" |
| rowspan="6" |[[John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley|Anderson]]<br />{{small|([[National Government (United Kingdom)|Nat Ind]])}}
|-
!1940 (b)
| rowspan="3" style="background-color:{{party color|Independent Conservative}};"|
| rowspan="3" |[[Archibald Hill|Hill]]<br />{{small|([[Independent conservative|Ind Con]])}}
| rowspan="5" style="background-color:{{party color|Ulster Unionist Party}};"|
| rowspan="5" |[[Douglas Savory|Savory]]<br />{{small|([[Ulster Unionist Party|UUP]])}}
|-
!1943 (b)
| rowspan="4" style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}};" |
| rowspan="4" |[[W. J. Gruffydd|Gruffydd]]<br />{{small|([[Liberal Party (UK)|Lib]])}}
|-
!1945 (b)
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Independent politician}};" |
| rowspan="2" |[[John Boyd Orr|Boyd-Orr]]<br />{{small|([[Independent politician|Ind]])}}
|-
![[1945 United Kingdom general election|1945]]
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Independent politician}};"|
| rowspan="2" |[[Wilson Harris (journalist)|Harris]]<br />{{small|([[Independent politician|Ind]])}}
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:{{party color|Independent politician}};" |
| rowspan="2" |[[Kenneth Lindsay|Lindsay]]<br />{{small|([[Independent politician|Ind]])}}
|-
!1946 (b)
| style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};" |
|[[Henry Strauss, 1st Baron Conesford|Strauss]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
| style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}};"|
|[[Walter Elliot (Scottish politician)|Elliot]]<br />{{small|([[Conservative Party (UK)|Con]])}}
|-
![[1950 United Kingdom general election|1950]]
! colspan="24" |[[Representation of the People Act 1948|Abolished]]
|}