Andrew Mitchell Torrance

Andrew Mitchell Torrance (1845 – 4 February 1909)[1][2] was a Scottish Liberal Party politician.

[1] He was elected to the London County Council as a Liberal backed Progressive Party member representing Islington East.

[5] Torrance first stood for Parliament at the 1900 general election in Islington East (his London County Council seat), but lost by a wide margin to the sitting Conservative MP Benjamin Louis Cohen.

At the next general election, in January 1906 he chose to contest a seat in his native Scotland and was elected as the MP for Glasgow Central (UK Parliament constituency), defeating the sitting Conservative MP John George Alexander Baird by a margin of 3.4%.

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