Glasgow Hillhead was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1997. A constituency (often called ridings)is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ...
He was a Labour Member of Parliament in Glasgow from 1962 to 1983.
Carmichael represented Glasgow Woodside from a by-election in 1962 to February 1974, then Glasgow Kelvingrove.
For the 1983 general election his constituency was abolished and merged with GlasgowHillhead which had been won in a byelection by Roy Jenkins for the SDP.
The SDP came second in many constituencies, but Britain's first past the post electoral system meant that this success did not translate into parliamentary seats.
For many years after, both the SDP and the Liberal party were committed to proportional representation, under which system they would have had a much larger presence in the House of Commons.
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