Argyllshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Argyllshire County constituency |
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| Created: | 1708 |
| Abolished: | 1983 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
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
- 1708 Sir James Campbell, 2nd Baronet
- 1736 Charles Campbell
- 1742 James Stuart-Mackenzie
- 1747 Sir Duncan Campbell
- 1754 Dugald Campbell
- 1764 Lord William Campbell
- 1766 Robert Campbell
- 1772 Adam Livingston
- 1780 Lord Frederick Campbell
- 1799 Lord John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell, later Duke of Argyll
- 1822 Walter Frederick Campbell
- 1832 James Henry Callander
- 1835 Walter Frederick Campbell
- 1841 Alexander Cameron Campbell
- 1843 Duncan McNeill
- 1851 Sir Archibald Islay Campbell
- 1857 Alexander Struthers Finlay
- 1868 John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, later Duke of Argyll
- 1878 Lord Colin Campbell
- 1885 Donald Horne Macfarlane (Crofters' Party)
- 1886 John Wingfield Malcolm, later Baron Malcolm
- 1892 Sir Donald Horne Macfarlane
- 1895 Donald Ninian Nicol
- 1903 John Stirling Ainsworth
- 1918 Sir William Sutherland
- 1924 Frederick Alexander Macquisten
- 1940 Sir Duncan McCallum
[edit] Argyll
- 1950 Sir Duncan McCallum
- 1958 Michael Noble, later Baron Glenkinglas
- 1974 Iain Somerled MacDonald Maccormick
- 1979 John Jackson Mackay, later Baron Mackay of Ardbrecknish
[edit] Election results
| General Election 1931: Argyllshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Frederick Alexander Macquisten KC | unopposed | |||
| General Election 1906: Argyllshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | John Stirling Ainsworth | 4,507 | |||
| Conservative | G.A.C. Hutchinson | 3,012 | |||
