Cunninghame South (UK Parliament constituency)

Cunninghame South
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of Cunninghame South in Scotland for the 2001 general election
Subdivisions of ScotlandNorth Ayrshire
19832005
SeatsOne
Created fromAyrshire Central
Bute and Northern Ayrshire[1]
Replaced byNorth Ayrshire & Arran
Central Ayrshire

Cunninghame South was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster) from 1983 until 2005. It was represented by one Member of Parliament (MP) elected by the first-past-the-post system of election.

In 2005 a northern area of the constituency was merged with Cunninghame North to form North Ayrshire and Arran. The rest of the Cunninghame South constituency was merged with a northern area from Ayr and a small area from Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley to form Central Ayrshire.

The Cunninghame South constituency of the Scottish Parliament, which was created in 1999 with the same boundaries as the Westminster constituency, continues in existence unaltered.

  1. ^ "'Cunninghame South', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.