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 .
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
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|1708
| Sir James Campbell, 2nd Baronet
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|1736 by-election
| Charles Campbell
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|1742 by-election
| James Stuart-Mackenzie
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|1747
| Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochnell
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|1754
| Dugald Campbell
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|1764 by-election
| Lord William Campbell
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|1766 by-election
| Robert Campbell
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|1772 by-election
| Adam Livingston
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|1780
| Lord Frederick Campbell
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|1799 by-election
| Lord John Campbell
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|1822 by-election
|Walter Frederick Campbell
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|1832
| James Henry Callander
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|1859
| Liberal
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|1868 by-election
| Marquess of Lorne
| Liberal
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|1878 by-election
| Lord Colin Campbell
| Liberal
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|1885
| Donald Horne Macfarlane
| Crofters' Party
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|1886
| John Malcolm
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|1892
| Sir Donald Horne Macfarlane
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|1895
| Donald Nicol
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|1903 by-election
| John Ainsworth
| Liberal
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|1918
| rowspan=3| Sir William Sutherland
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| Jan 1922
| National Liberal
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|1923
| Liberal
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|1924
| Frederick Alexander Macquisten
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|1940 by-election
| Sir Duncan McCallum
| Unionist
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|colspan="2" align="center"| 1950
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Argyll
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!colspan="2" | Election !! Member
thumb|120px|John Ainsworth
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
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Elections in the 1920s
thumb|120px|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
- 1920 Argyll by-election