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Argyll and Bute Council (Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Earra Ghàidheal is Bhòid) is one of the 32 local authorities of Scotland, covering the Argyll and Bute council area. Thirty-six representative members make up the council, elected, since 2007, by single transferable vote and, before that, by the first-past-the-post system .
The main railway line in Argyll and Bute is the West Highland Line, which links Oban to Glasgow, passing through much of the eastern and northern parts of the area. From the south the line enters Argyll and Bute just to the west of Dumbarton, continuing north via Helensburgh Upper to the eastern shores of the Gare Loch and Loch Long.
Elections to Argyll and Bute Council took place on 5 May 2022, the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections.As with other Scottish council elections, it was held using single transferable vote (STV)—a form of proportional representation—in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference.
Argyll and Bute Council in Scotland holds elections every five years, previously holding them every four years from its creation as a single-tier authority in 1995 to 2007. Council elections [ edit ]
A local government district called Argyll and Bute was formed in the Strathclyde region, including most of Argyll and the adjacent Isle of Bute (the former County of Bute was more extensive). The Ardnamurchan , Ardgour , Ballachulish , Duror, Glencoe , Kinlochleven , and Morvern areas of Argyll were detached to become parts of Lochaber District ...
The Argyll and Bute constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency was enlarged slightly. [2] The Holyrood constituency covers most of the Argyll and Bute council area.
Argyll and Bute was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It was created for the 1983 general election, merging most of Argyll with some of Bute and Northern Ayrshire, and then superseded by Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber in the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies.
This List of places in Argyll and Bute is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, historic house, lighthouse, nature reserve, reservoir, river, canal, and other place of interest in the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland.