Argyll_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Argyllshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Argyllshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801–1983


Argyllshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1983. The constituency was named Argyll from 1950. The constituency was replaced in 1983 with Argyll and Bute.

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It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.

Creation

The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland shire constituency of Argyllshire .[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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.

Members of Parliament

Argyllshire

Argyll

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Election results

Argyll election results


Decades:

Elections in the 1830s

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Elections in the 1840s

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Campbell resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

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Elections in the 1850s

McNeill resigned after being appointed a Senator of the College of Justice, becoming Lord Colonsay and causing a by-election.

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Elections in the 1860s

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Finlay resigned, causing a by-election.

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Elections in the 1870s

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Campbell resigned after being appointed Governor General of Canada.

Lord Colin Campbell
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Elections in the 1880s

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Elections in the 1890s

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Elections in the 1900s

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John Ainsworth
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Elections in the 1910s

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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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

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Elections in the 1920s

Sir W. Sutherland
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Elections in the 1930s

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See also


References

  1. "Argyllshire". History of Parliament Online (1690–1715). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  2. "Argyllshire". History of Parliament Online (1715–1754). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  3. "Argyllshire". History of Parliament Online (1754–1790). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  4. "Argyllshire". History of Parliament Online (1790–1820). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  5. "Argyllshire". History of Parliament Online (1820–1832). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  6. Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 196.
  7. "Argyllshire". Caledonian Mercury. p. 4. Retrieved 5 September 2018 via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. Fisher, David R. "Argyllshire". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  9. Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
  10. Debrett's House of Commons, 1870
  11. The Times,29 April 1880
  12. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
  13. Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885–1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984.
  14. "The General Election". Glasgow Herald. 9 October 1885. pp. 9–10.
  15. Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
  16. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
  17. The Times, 29 August 1903
  18. Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
  19. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
  20. Edinburgh Evening News 19 Sep 1914
  21. Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
  22. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
  23. The Times, 11 December 1923
  24. Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
  25. The Times, 3 June 1929
  26. Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
  27. Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
  28. Whitaker's Almanack, 1944
  29. Whitaker's Almanack 1963
  30. Whitaker's Almanack 1977

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