Aberdeen and Kincardine Central (UK Parliament constituency)

The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 and first used in the 1918 general election.

This arrangement dated from 1885, however, and predated both the redefinition of counties as local government areas, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, and the creation of the county of city of Aberdeen in 1900.

Aberdeen and Kincardine Central was abolished and its area was divided between the new constituency of North Angus and Mearns and a new West Aberdeenshire.

The new West Aberdeenshire was entirely within the county of Aberdeen, but boundaries differed from those of the earlier constituency of that name.

The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;