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Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918–1997

Caithness and Sutherland
Formercounty constituency for theHouse of Commons
Location of Caithness and Sutherland within Scotland
Subdivisions of Scotland	Highland
1918–1997
Created from	Caithness,Sutherland andWick Burghs
Replaced by	Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross

Caithness and Sutherland was acounty constituency of theHouse of Commons of theParliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1997. It elected oneMember of Parliament (MP) by thefirst past the post system of election.

The constituency was created by merging the constituencies ofCaithness andSutherland and theDornoch andWick components of theWick Burghs constituency.

In 1997 the constituency was superseded by the creation ofCaithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, which merged Caithness and Sutherland and theEaster Ross area ofRoss, Cromarty and Skye.

Caithness and Sutherland was geographically one of the largest constituencies in the United Kingdom, as well as the most northerly constituency on the mainland (only the island constituency ofOrkney and Shetland was further north).

	Member^[1]	Party
1918	Sir Leicester Harmsworth	Coalition Liberal
1922	Sir Archibald Sinclair	National Liberal
1923	Sir Archibald Sinclair	Liberal
1945	Eric Gandar Dower	Conservative
1950	Sir David Robertson	Conservative
1959	Sir David Robertson	Independent Conservative
1964	George Mackie	Liberal
1966	Robert Maclennan	Labour
1981		SDP
1988		Liberal Democrats
1997	constituency abolished

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
C	National Liberal	Leicester Harmsworth	6,769	62.6
	Liberal	Francis John Robertson	4,036	37.4
Majority			2,733	25.2
Turnout			10,785
	National Liberalwin (new seat)
Cindicatescandidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Archibald Sinclair	7,715	57.1	−5.5
	Liberal	Leicester Harmsworth	5,803	42.9	+5.5
Majority			1,912	14.2	−11.0
Turnout			13,518	60.1
	National Liberalhold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Archibald Sinclair	Unopposed	*N/A*	*N/A*
	Liberalhold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Archibald Sinclair	13,462	73.9	*N/A*
	Unionist	James Duncan	3,041	16.7	New
	Independent Labour	Charles G Oman	1,711	9.4	New
Majority			10,421	57.2	N/A
Turnout			18,214	66.5	N/A
	Liberalhold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Archibald Sinclair	12,071	72.32	*N/A*
	National	William Bruce	4,621	27.68	New
Majority			7,650	44.64	N/A
Turnout			16,692	60.06	N/A
	Liberalhold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Eric Gandar Dower	5,564	33.5	*New*
	Labour	Robert Ian Aonas MacInnes	5,558	33.4	New
	Liberal	Archibald Sinclair	5,503	33.1	−39.2
Majority			6	0.04	N/A
Turnout			16,625	64.2	+4.1
	Unionistgain fromLiberal		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	David Robertson	6,969	36.0	+2.5
	Liberal	Archibald Sinclair	6,700	34.6	+1.5
	Labour	Alasdair MacArthur	5,676	29.3	−4.1
Majority			269	1.4	+1.4
Turnout			25,021	76.6	+12.4
	Unionisthold		Swing	+3.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	David Robertson	9,814	49.2	+13.2
	Labour	Richard Murray	6,799	34.1	+4.8
	Liberal	Peter J M McEwan	3,299	16.6	−18.0
Majority			3,015	15.14	+14.7
Turnout			19,912	73.26	+3.3
	Unionisthold		Swing	+4.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	David Robertson	10,453	56.5	+7.3
	Labour	Hugh F Sutherland	5,364	29.0	−5.1
	Liberal	John Stuart Mowat	2,674	14.5	−2.1
Majority			5,089	27.5	+12.4
Turnout			18,491	69.5	−3.8
	Unionisthold		Swing	+6.1

General election 1959: Caithness and Sutherland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Ind. Unionist	David Robertson	12,163	65.3	+8.8
	Labour	Ronald Murray	6,438	34.6	+5.6
Majority			5,725	30.7	N/A
Turnout			18,601	69.6	+0.1
	Ind. Unionistgain fromUnionist		Swing

General election 1964: Caithness and Sutherland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Mackie	7,894	36.1	*New*
	Labour	John B Urquhart	6,619	30.2	−4.4
	Unionist	Patrick Maitland	4,550	20.8	New
	Ind. Unionist	John M Young	2,795	12.7	−52.6
Majority			1,275	5.9	N/A
Turnout			21,858	80.1	+11.5
	Liberalgain fromInd. Unionist		Swing

General election 1966: Caithness and Sutherland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Maclennan	8,308	39.1	+8.9
	Liberal	George Mackie	8,244	38.8	+2.7
	Conservative	Hamish Watt	4,662	21.9	+1.1
Majority			64	0.3	N/A
Turnout			21,214	79.2	−0.9
	Labourgain fromLiberal		Swing	+3.1

General election 1970: Caithness and Sutherland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Maclennan	8,768	36.7	−2.4
	Liberal	George Mackie	6,063	25.4	−13.4
	Conservative	John M Young	5,334	22.3	+0.4
	SNP	Donald G. Barr	3,690	15.4	New
Majority			2,705	11.3	+11.0
Turnout			23,855
	Labourhold		Swing	+5.5

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Maclennan	8,574	36.2	−0.5
	Liberal	Michael R Burnett	6,222	26.2	+0.8
	Conservative	G Susan Bell	5,104	21.5	−0.8
	SNP	Eric Alexander Sutherland	3,814	16.1	+0.7
Majority			2,352	10.0	−1.3
Turnout			23,714	83.0
	Labourhold		Swing	-0.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Maclennan	7,941	35.3	−0.9
	SNP	Eric Alexander Sutherland	5,381	23.9	+7.8
	Liberal	Michael R Burnett	4,949	22.0	−4.2
	Conservative	Albert McQuarrie	4,240	18.8	−2.7
Majority			2,560	11.4	+1.4
Turnout			22,511	78.1	−4.9
	Labourhold		Swing	−4.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Maclennan	9,613	41.5	+6.2
	Conservative	Richard H. Wardrop	7,074	30.5	+11.7
	SNP	Robin R. Shaw	6,487	28.0	+4.1
Majority			2,539	11.0	−0.4
Turnout			23,714	78.4	+0.3
	Labourhold		Swing	−2.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SDP	Robert Maclennan	12,119	52.0	+10.5
	Conservative	Alistair M. Scouller	5,276	22.7	−7.8
	Labour	Danny Carrigan	3,325	14.3	−27.2
	SNP	Jim Ingram	2,568	11.0	−17.0
Majority			6,843	29.3	N/A
Turnout			23,288	75.4	−3.0
	SDPgain fromLabour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SDP	Robert Maclennan	12,338	53.7	+1.7
	Conservative	Robert Hamilton	3,844	16.7	−6.0
	Labour	Allan Byron	3,437	14.9	+0.6
	SNP	Archibal MacGregor	2,371	10.3	−0.7
	Independent Liberal	William Mowat	686	2.9	New
	Green	Bernard Planterose	333	1.4	New
Majority			8,494	37.0	+7.7
Turnout			23,009	73.6	−1.8
	SDPhold		Swing	+3.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Maclennan	10,032	45.1	−8.6
	Conservative	George Bruce	4,667	20.9	+4.2
	SNP	Kerr MacGregor	4,049	18.2	+7.9
	Labour	Michael F. Coyne	3,483	15.6	+0.7
Majority			5,365	24.2	−12.8
Turnout			22,231	72.5	−1.1
	Liberal Democratshold		Swing	−6.4

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