Subdivisions of Scotland Ayrshire Created from Ayrshire | Number of members One | |
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Replaced by North Ayrshire
South Ayrshire. | ||
Ayrshire 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 1868, when it was divided into North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire.
It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.
Boundaries
The Ayrshire constituency represented the county of Ayrshire, minus the parliamentary burghs of Ayr and Irvine, which were components of the Ayr Burghs constituency.
References
Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA