Gilbert McAllister

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|name = Gilbert McAllister

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|term_start = 5 July 1945

|term_end = 5 October 1951

|predecessor = Allan Chapman

|birth_date = {{birth date|1906|3|26|df=y}}

|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1964|5|27|1906|3|29}}

|party = Labour

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Gilbert McAllister (26 March 1906 – 27 May 1964) was a British Labour Party politician. He unsuccessfully contested the North Lanarkshire constituency in 1935, and came in at second at the 1937 Glasgow Hillhead by-election.

At the 1945 general election McAllister was elected as member of parliament (MP) for Rutherglen. He held that seat for six years, until his defeat at the 1951 election by the Conservative Party candidate Richard Brooman-White.

References

{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 |origyear=1969 |edition= 3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X}}
[http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/ge51/i17.htm United Kingdom general elections results, 1951] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111547/http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/ge51/i17.htm |date=29 September 2007 }} at Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources
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