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 .
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 .
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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
Election results
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 the
College of Justice , becoming Lord Colonsay and causing a by-election.
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Elections in the 1860s
Finlay resigned, causing a by-election.
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Elections in the 1870s
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
John Ainsworth
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Elections in the 1910s
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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Elections in the 1940s
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Elections in the 1950s
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Elections in the 1960s
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Elections in the 1970s
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See also
References
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"Argyllshire" . History of Parliament Online (1690–1715). Retrieved 27 March 2019 .
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"Argyllshire" . History of Parliament Online (1715–1754). Retrieved 27 March 2019 .
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"Argyllshire" . History of Parliament Online (1754–1790). Retrieved 27 March 2019 .
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"Argyllshire" . History of Parliament Online (1790–1820). Retrieved 27 March 2019 .
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"Argyllshire" . History of Parliament Online (1820–1832). Retrieved 27 March 2019 .
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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 2)
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i Smith, Henry Stooks (1842).
The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 196.
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"Argyllshire" . Caledonian Mercury . p. 4. Retrieved 5 September 2018 – via
British Newspaper Archive .
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b Fisher, David R.
"Argyllshire" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 7 May 2020 .
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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 .
^ Debrett's House of Commons, 1870
^ The Times,29 April 1880
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b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
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g Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885–1918 . London: Macmillan Press.
ISBN
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"The General Election" .
Glasgow Herald . 9 October 1885. pp. 9–10.
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
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b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
^ The Times, 29 August 1903
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
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b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
^ Edinburgh Evening News 19 Sep 1914
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
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b British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
^ The Times, 11 December 1923
^ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
^ The Times, 3 June 1929
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1944
^ Whitaker's Almanack 1963
^ Whitaker's Almanack 1977
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