Bute and Northern Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bute and Northern Ayrshire County constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Bute and Northern Ayrshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.

1 History
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also
5 Sources

[edit] History

The constituency was formed by combining Buteshire with part of North Ayrshire. The rest of Ayshire North was merged into Kilmarnock.

In 1918 the constituency consisted of "The county of Bute, inclusive of all burghs, situated therein, and the county district of Northern Ayr, inclusive of all burghs situated therein except in so far as included in the Ayr District of Burghs"

In 1950 some of the constituency was transferred to the then new constituency of Central Ayrshire.

In 1983 Bute and Northern Ayrshire was divided between Argyll and Bute and Cunninghame North.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston	Unionist
	1935	Sir Charles Glen MacAndrew	Unionist
	1959	Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean	Conservative
	1974	John Alexander Corrie	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished: see Argyll & Bute and Cunninghame North