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Argyllshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801–1983

Summary

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1801–1983

Field	Value
name	Argyllshire
parliament	uk
year	1708
abolished	1983
type	County
elects_howmany	One
next	Argyll and Bute and Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber
region	Scotland
county	Argyllshire

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 .{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/constituencies/argyllshire

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

Election	a	2	date=March 2012}}
	1708	Sir James Campbell, 2nd Baronet
	1736 by-election	Charles Campbell
	1742 by-election	James Stuart-Mackenzie
	1747	Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochnell
	1754	Dugald Campbell
	1764 by-election	Lord William Campbell
	1766 by-election	Robert Campbell
	1772 by-election	Adam Livingston
	1780	Lord Frederick Campbell
Whigs (British political party)}}"		1799 by-election	Lord John Campbell
Whigs (British political party)}}"		1822 by-election	Walter Frederick Campbell
Whigs (British political party)}}"		1832	James Henry Callander
Whigs (British political party)}}"		1835	Walter Frederick Campbell
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1841	Alexander Campbell
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1843 by-election	Duncan McNeill
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1851 by-election	Sir Archibald Campbell, 3rd Baronet
Whigs (British political party)}}"		1857	Alexander Struthers Finlay
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1859	Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1868 by-election	Marquess of Lorne
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1878 by-election	Lord Colin Campbell
Independent Liberal}}"		1885	Donald Horne Macfarlane
Unionist Party (Scotland)}}"		1886	John Malcolm
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1892	Sir Donald Horne Macfarlane
Unionist Party (Scotland)}}"		1895	Donald Nicol
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1903 by-election	John Ainsworth
Coalition Liberal}}"		1918	Sir William Sutherland
National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)}}"		1922	National Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1923	Liberal
Unionist Party (Scotland)}}"		1924	Frederick Alexander Macquisten
Unionist Party (Scotland)}}"		1940 by-election	Sir Duncan McCallum
1950	constituency renamed

Argyll

Election	Member	Party
Unionist Party (Scotland)}}"		1950	Sir Duncan McCallum
Unionist Party (Scotland)}}"		1958 (b)	Michael Noble
Scottish National Party}}"		Feb 1974	Iain MacCormick
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1979	John Mackay
1983	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1830s

|reg. electors = 114

|reg. electors = 995

|reg. electors = 1,084

|reg. electors = 1,666

Elections in the 1840s

|reg. electors = 1,600

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

|reg. electors = 1,889

Elections in the 1850s

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

|reg. electors = 2,156

|reg. electors = 2,256

|reg. electors = 2,294 Back to Election results

Elections in the 1860s

|reg. electors = 1,914

Finlay resigned, causing a by-election.

|reg. electors = 2,870 Back to Election results

Elections in the 1870s

|reg. electors = 3,018

Campbell resigned after being appointed Governor General of Canada.

|reg. electors = 3,133 Back to Election results

Elections in the 1880s

|reg. electors = 3,299 |reg. electors = 10,011

|reg. electors = 10,011

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Elections in the 1890s

|reg. electors = 9,874 |reg. electors = 10,471 Back to Election results

Elections in the 1900s

|reg. electors = 10,405

|reg. electors = 10,643 |reg. electors = 11,216 Back to Election results

Elections in the 1910s

|reg. electors = 11,025 |reg. electors = 11,572 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;

Liberal:
Unionist: George Hutchison Back to Election results

Elections in the 1920s

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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

References

{{Rayment-hc. a. 2. (March 2012)
(1842). "The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections". Simpkin, Marshall & Company.
"Argyllshire".
"Argyllshire".
Debrett's House of Commons, 1870
The Times,29 April 1880
(1977). "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885". Macmillan Press.
(1974). "British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885–1918". Macmillan Press.
(9 October 1885). "The General Election". [[The Herald (Glasgow).
Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
The Times, 29 August 1903
Whitaker's Almanack, 1907
Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1916
Edinburgh Evening News 19 Sep 1914
Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
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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