Bute and Northern Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Bute and Northern Ayrshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Buteshire, Ayrshire
1918–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Argyll & Bute Cunninghame North Cunninghame South^[1]
Created from	Buteshire North Ayrshire

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.

History

The constituency was formed by combining Buteshire with part of North Ayrshire. The rest of Ayrshire 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 insofar 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.

Members of Parliament

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

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Hunter-Weston

General Election 1918: Bute & Northern Ayrshire ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Lt-Gen. Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston	12,638		n/a
	Labour	Robert Smith	5,848		n/a
	Liberal	Hugh Fraser Campbell	2,059		n/a
Majority					n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Unionist win

endorsed by the Coalition Government

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Bute & Northern Ayrshire ^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston	14,368	60.6
	Labour	John Paton	9,323	39.4
Majority			5,045	21.2
Turnout			23,691
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Bute & Northern Ayrshire ^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston	12,320
	Labour	Peter Campbell Stephen	9,855
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1924: Bute & Northern Ayrshire ^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston	16,203
	Labour	Peter Campbell Stephen	10,075
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Bute & Northern Ayrshire^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston	18,331	56.2
	Labour	Alexander Sloan	14,294	43.8
Majority			4,037	12.4
Turnout			32,625
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Bute & Northern Ayrshire^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston	24,467	70.5
	Ind. Labour Party	Alexander Sloan	10,227	29.5
Majority			14,240	41.0
Turnout			34,694	67.9
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1935: Bute & Northern Ayrshire ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Charles Glen MacAndrew	22,391	62.3
	Labour	M. Shinwell	13,358	37.4
Majority			9,033	33.3
Turnout			35,749	66.6
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1939/40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

Unionist: Sir Charles Glen MacAndrew
Labour:

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Bute & Northern Ayrshire ^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Col. Sir Charles Glen MacAndrew	21,652	53.0
	Labour	Capt. John Wheatley	19,209	47.0
Majority			2,443	6.0
Turnout				68.6
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1950: Bute & North Ayrshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Charles Glen MacAndrew	22,019	64.2
	Labour	G Aitken	12,243	35.7
Majority			9,776
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Bute & North Ayrshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Charles Glen MacAndrew	22,361	64.2
	Labour	Jesse Dickson Mabon	12,492	35.8
Majority			9,869
Turnout
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Bute & North Ayrshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Charles Glen MacAndrew	20,338	64.5
	Labour	David Lambie	11,183	35.5
Majority			9,155	29.0
Turnout			31,521
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1959: Bute & North Ayrshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean	20,270	62.4
	Labour	David Lambie	12,218	37.6
Majority			8,052	24.8
Turnout			32,488
	Unionist hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1964: Bute & North Ayrshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean	16,497	49.8
	Labour	David Lambie	11,934	36.0
	Liberal	Richard J Gammon	4,671	14.1
Majority			4,563	13.7
Turnout			33,102
	Unionist hold		Swing

General Election 1966: Bute & North Ayrshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean	16,138	48.7
	Labour	David Lambie	13,482	40.7
	Liberal	Robert P Cochrane	3,539	10.7
Majority			2,656	8.0
Turnout			33,159	76.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.8

Elections in the 1970s

Fitzroy Maclean

General Election 1970: Bute & North Ayrshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean	18,853	53.6
	Labour	Hugh G Millar	12,459	35.4
	SNP	Peggy Macrae	3,852	10.9
Majority			6,394	18.2
Turnout			35,164	73
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.1

General Election Feb 1974: Bute & North Ayrshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Alexander Corrie	17,166	45.7
	Labour	Raymond D Donnelly	10,436	27.8
	SNP	John A. Murphy	6,104	16.3
	Liberal	R. Stevenson	3,832	10.2
Majority			6,730	17.9
Turnout				77.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election Oct 1974: Bute & North Ayrshire ^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Alexander Corrie	13,599	38.9
	Labour	J.N. Carson	10,093	28.9
	SNP	John A. Murphy	9,055	25.9
	Liberal	R. Stevenson	2,224	6.4
Majority			3,506	10.0
Turnout				71.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Bute & North Ayrshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Alexander Corrie	17,317	45.7
	Labour	MG Smith	13,004	34.3
	SNP	M Brown	5,272	13.9
	Liberal	P Giffney	2,280	6.0
Majority			4,313	11.4
Turnout				75.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

↑ "'Ayrshire North and Bute', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
↑ The Times, 17 November 1922
↑ The Times, 8 December 1923
↑ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
↑ The Times, 1 June 1929
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
↑ Whitaker's Almanack 1977

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