West Lothian (UK Parliament constituency)

West Lothian
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of ScotlandLinlithgowshire
19501983
SeatsOne
Created fromLinlithgowshire
Replaced byLinlithgow
Livingston
Falkirk East[1]

West Lothian was a Scottish county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 to 1983. Its area corresponds to the Council area of West Lothian. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

The constituency is best known for its third and final MP, Tam Dalyell of the Labour Party, whose concerns about Scottish devolution were labelled "the West Lothian question".

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