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» This article is about the county in Scotland. For other uses of the term, see Bute (disambiguation).
The
County of Bute (
Siorrachd Bhòid in
Gaelic) is one of the
registration counties of
Scotland. In 2001 its usually resident population was 13,720.
Local government county
Bute, also known as
Buteshire, was a
local government county of Scotland with its own elected
county council from 1890 to 1975. The council area comprised a number of islands in the
Firth of Clyde, between the local government counties of
Argyll and
Ayrshire, the principal islands being the
Isle of Bute, the
Isle of Arran,
Great Cumbrae and
Little Cumbrae.
The county town was
Rothesay, located on the Isle of Bute.
In 1975 the county area was divided between the Argyll and
Cunninghame districts of the
Strathclyde region. The Isle of Bute became part of Argyll while the Isle of Arran and the Cumbraes became part of Cunninghame.
As a result of local government reorganisation in 1996, when
unitary council areas were created, the Isle of Bute is now part of
Argyll and Bute, and the other islands are within
North Ayrshire.
Buteshire constituency
There was a
Buteshire constituency of the
House of Commons of the
Parliament of Great Britain from
1708 to
1800 and of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom from
1801 to
1918. Between
1708 and
1832 it was one of the
Buteshire and Caithness alternating constituencies: one constituency elected a
Member of Parliament (MP) to one parliament then the other elected an MP to the next. Between
1832 and
1918 it was a separate constituency, electing an MP to every parliament.
In 1918 the constituency was combined with the
Ayrshire North constituency to form the
Bute and Northern Ayrshire constituency, a constituency which straddled the boundary between the
local government counties of Bute and Ayrshire.
In
1983, eight years after Scottish local government counties had been abolished, the Bute and Northern Ayrshire constituency was divided between the
Argyll and Bute constituency and the
Cunninghame North constituency.
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