Argyllshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Argyllshire
County constituency
Created: 1708
Abolished: 1983
Type: House of Commons
Members: One

Argyllshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1950, when it was renamed Argyll. The constituency was replaced in 1983 with Argyll and Bute.

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[edit] Local government areas

Until Scottish counties were abolished, for most purposes, in 1975, the constituency represented the county of Argyll, except that constituency boundaries may not have coincided at all times with county 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 became the Argyll district of the Strathclyde region. A northern area of the county became part of the Highland region. Until 1975 the Isle of Bute had been part of the county of Bute.

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 district of Strathclyde, became the Argyll and Bute unitary council area.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Argyllshire

[edit] Argyll

[edit] Election results

General Election 1931: Argyllshire
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Frederick Alexander Macquisten KC unopposed
General Election 1906: Argyllshire
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal John Stirling Ainsworth 4,507 59.9
Conservative G.A.C. Hutchinson 3,012 40.1
General Election 1886: Argyllshire
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Wingfield Malcolm 3,658
Liberal Donald Horne McFarlane 3,045
General Election 1885: Argyllshire
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Donald Horne McFarlane 3,336
Liberal William Mackinnon 2,852
Liberal John Stuart McCaig 665

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