Dundee (UK Parliament constituency)

In 1906, the explorer Ernest Shackleton unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the Liberal Unionist Party.

[3] Originally a Liberal stronghold, the seat was one of the first in Scotland to return a Labour candidate, Alexander Wilkie, who was elected in 1906.

[4] At the 1918 general election both Churchill, still then a Liberal, and Wilkie were supported by the local Unionists, as well as their own party organisations.

[6] The boundaries of the constituency, as set out in the Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1832, were- Kinloch's death caused a by-election.

Parnell was appointed as Paymaster-General of the Land Forces and Treasurer of the Navy, requiring a by-election.