“…Nearly 8.5 million women were enfranchised by the Representation of the People Act of 1918. In Scotland the electorate expanded from 760,000 in 1910 to 2.2 million in 1918 (Cameron 2018). In addition, the redistribution of seats in the country led to a profound shift in representation from the rural areas of the north and south to the industrial areas of west central Scotland and the city of Glasgow.…”