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Argyllshire was a
county constituency
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of the House of Commons
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of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800 and of the House of Commons
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of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
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from 1801 until 1983. The constituency was named Argyll from 1950. The constituency was replaced in 1983 with Argyll and Bute
Argyll and Bute ( sco, Argyll an Buit; gd, Earra-Ghàidheal agus Bòd, ) is one of 32 unitary authority council areas in Scotland and a lieutenancy area. The current lord-lieutenant for Argyll and Bute is Jane Margaret MacLeod (14 July 2020) ...
.
It elected one Member of Parliament
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(MP) using the first-past-the-post
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voting system.
Creation
The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the formerParliament of Scotland
The Parliament of Scotland ( sco, Pairlament o Scotland; gd, Pàrlamaid na h-Alba) was the legislature of the Kingdom of Scotland from the 13th century until 1707. The parliament evolved during the early 13th century from the king's council o ...
shire constituency of Argyllshire .
Local government areas
Until Scottishcounties
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
were abolished, for most purposes, in 1975, the constituency represented the county of Argyll
Argyll (; archaically Argyle, in modern Gaelic, ), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland.
Argyll is of ancient origin, and corresponds to most of the part of the ancient kingdom of ...
, except that constituency boundaries may not have coincided at all times with county
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boundaries, and any parliamentary burgh within the county would have been outside the constituency.
In 1975 most of the county plus the Isle of Bute
The Isle of Bute ( sco, Buit; gd, Eilean Bhòid or '), known as Bute (), is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is divided into highland and lowland areas by the Highland Boundary Fault.
Formerly a constituent is ...
became the Argyll district
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of the Strathclyde
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region
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. A northern area of the county became part of the Highland
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region. Until 1975 the Isle of Bute
The Isle of Bute ( sco, Buit; gd, Eilean Bhòid or '), known as Bute (), is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is divided into highland and lowland areas by the Highland Boundary Fault.
Formerly a constituent is ...
had been part of the county of Bute
The County of Bute ( gd, Siorrachd Bhòid), also known as Buteshire, is a historic county and registration county of Scotland.
The county comprises a number of islands in the Firth of Clyde, between the counties of Argyll and Ayrshire, the p ...
.
In 1996, 13 years after the abolition of the Argyll constituency and creation of the Argyll and Bute constituency, the Argyll district, plus a portion of the Dumbarton
Dumbarton (; also sco, Dumbairton; ) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary. In 2006, it had an estimated population of 19,990.
Dumbarton was the ca ...
district of Strathclyde, became the Argyll and Bute unitary council area.
Members of Parliament
Argyllshire
Argyll
Election results
Elections in the 1830s
Elections in the 1840s
Campbell resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.Elections in the 1850s
McNeill resigned after being appointed a Senator of theCollege of Justice
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, becoming Lord Colonsay and causing a by-election.
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Elections in the 1860s
Finlay resigned, causing a by-election. Back to Election resultsElections in the 1870s
Campbell resigned after being appointedGovernor General of Canada
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.
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Elections in the 1880s
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General Election 1914–15: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; *Liberal: *Unionist: George HutchisonEdinburgh Evening News 19 Sep 1914 Back to Election resultsElections in the 1920s
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* 1920 Argyll by-electionReferences
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