County of Bute

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The County of Bute (Siorrachd Bhòid in ) is one of the of. In 2001 its usually resident population was 13,720.

Local government county
Bute, also known as Buteshire, was a of Scotland with its own elected  from 1890 to 1975. The council area comprised a number of islands in the, between the local government counties of and , the principal islands being the , the ,  and.

The county town was, located on the Isle of Bute.

In 1975 the county area was divided between the Argyll and  of the. 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 s were created, the Isle of Bute is now part of, and the other islands are within.

Buteshire constituency
There was a of the  of the  from  to  and of the  from  to. Between and  it was one of the : one constituency elected a  (MP) to one parliament then the other elected an MP to the next. Between and  it was a separate constituency, electing an MP to every parliament.

In 1918 the constituency was combined with the to form the, a constituency which straddled the boundary between the   of Bute and Ayrshire.

In, eight years after Scottish local government counties had been abolished, the Bute and Northern Ayrshire constituency was divided between the and the.