Constituencies Abolished in 1950
The Boundary Commissions completed their Initial Review of Parliamentary Constituencies in 1947. This recommended a number of changes in order that the populations of constituencies ordinarily varied no more than 25% from an electoral quota.
| Created | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen and Kincardine East | 1918 | |
| Aberdeen and Kincardine Central | 1918 | |
| Antrim | 1922 | Second creation: first creation 1801 to 1885 Split into Antrim North and Antrim South |
| Ayr District of Burghs | 1708 | Components, as defined 1918, merged into Ayr, Bute and North Ayrshire and Central Ayrshire |
| Balham and Tooting | 1918 | |
| Barnard Castle | 1885 | Divided between Bishop Auckland and Durham North West |
| Barnstaple | 1295 | |
| Bermondsey West | 1918 | |
| Berwickshire and Haddingtonshire | 1918 | Renamed Berwickshire and East Lothian 1950-74 and Berwick and East Lothian 1974-83 |
| Bethnal Green North East | 1885 | |
| Bethnal Green South West | 1885 | |
| Bewdley | 1605 | |
| Birkenhead East | 1918 | |
| Birkenhead West | 1918 | |
| Birmingham Acock's Green | 1945 | |
| Birmingham Deritend | 1918 | |
| Birmingham Duddeston | 1918 | |
| Birmingham West | 1885 | |
| Blackburn | 1832 | 2nd creation from 1955 |
| Bolton | 1832 | |
| Bournemouth | 1918 | |
| Bow and Bromley | 1885 | |
| Brighton | 1832 | |
| Bristol East | 1885 | 2nd creation from 1983 |
| Bristol North | 1885 | |
| Bucklow | 1945 | |
| Buckrose | 1885 | Divied between Bridlington and Beverley |
| Burslem | 1918 | |
| Caernarvonshire | 1918 | 1st creation 1542-1885 |
| Camberwell North | 1885 | |
| Camberwell North West | 1918 | |
| Cambridge University | 1604 | |
| Cardiff Central | 1918 | 2nd creation from 1983 |
| Cardiff East | 1918 | |
| Cardiff South | 1918 | |
| Clay Cross | 1918 | |
| Combined English Universities | 1918 | |
| Combined Scottish Universities | 1918 | |
| Coventry West | 1945 | |
| Croydon South | 1918 | 2nd creation from 1955 |
| Daventry | 1918 | 2nd creation from 1974 |
| Derby | 1295 | |
| Down | 1922 | Second creation: first creation from 1801 to 1885 Split into Down North and Down South |
| Dumbarton Burghs | 1918 | Split between Dunbartonshire East and Dunbartonshire West. |
| Dunbartonshire | 1708 | Split between Dunbartonshire East and Dunbartonshire West |
| Dundee | 1832 | Split into Dundee East and Dundee West |
| Ealing East | 1945 | |
| Ealing West | 1945 | |
| East Dorset | 1885 | |
| East Toxteth | 1885 | |
| Eddisbury | 1885 | 2nd creation 1983 |
| Elland | 1885 | A large part went to the new Brighouse and Spenborough constituency |
| Enfield | 1885 | Split into Enfield East and Enfield West |
| Essex South East | 1885 | Revived 1955-1983 |
| Evesham | 1604 | First represented 1295 |
| Fermanagh and Tyrone | 1922 | Divided between Fermanagh and South Tyrone and Mid Ulster |
| Flintshire | 1542 | Split into Flintshire East and Flintshire West |
| Forest of Dean | 1885 | 2nd creation 1997 |
| Forfarshire | 1708 | Divided between South Angus and Angus North and Mearns (both abolished 1983) |
| Frome | 1832 | |
| Fylde | 1918 | Divided between Fylde North, Fylde South, Preston North, Preston South and Clitheroe A new Fylde was created in 1983 |
| Gateshead | 1832 | Split into Gateshead East and Gateshead West |
| Glasgow Partick | 1885 | |
| Glasgow St Rollox | 1885 | |
| Hackney Central | 1885 | 2nd creation 1955-83 |
| Hackney North | 1885 | |
| Hanley | 1885 | |
| Holderness | 1885 | |
| Howdenshire | 1885 | |
| Huddersfield | 1832 | 2nd creation from 1983 |
| Hull North West | 1918 | Strictly Kingston-upon-Hull North-West |
| Hull South West | 1918 | Strictly Kingston-upon-Hull South-West |
| Islington South | 1885 | |
| Islington West | 1885 | |
| Kennington | 1885 | |
| Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West | 1918 | |
| Kingswinford | 1885 | |
| Lambeth North | 1885 | |
| Leicester East | 1918 | 2nd creation from 1974 |
| Leicester South | 1918 | 2nd creation from 1974 |
| Leicester West | 1918 | 2nd creation from 1974 |
| Lewisham East | 1918 | 2nd creation from 1974 |
| Leyton East | 1918 | |
| Leyton West | 1918 | |
| Limehouse | 1885 | |
| Liverpool Everton | 1885 | |
| Liverpool Fairfield | 1918 | |
| Liverpool West Toxteth | 1885 | |
| Llandaff and Barry | 1918 | |
| London City (of) | 1298 | Merged into Cities of London and Westminster |
| London University | 1868 | |
| Lonsdale | 1918 | Divided between Morecambe and Lonsdale and Lancaster |
| Manchester Hulme | 1918 | |
| Manchester Platting | 1918 | |
| Manchester Rusholme | 1918 | |
| Montrose District of Burghs | 1832 | Divided between Angus South and North Angus and Mearns |
| Norfolk East | 1885 | 1st creation 1832-68 |
| North Cumberland | 1918 | Merged into Penrith and the Border |
| Norwich | 1298 | Split into Norwich North and Norwich South |
| Oldham | 1832 | Split into Oldham East and Oldham West |
| Oxford University | 1604 | |
| Penrith and Cockermouth | 1918 | Divided between Penrith and the Border and Workington |
| Penryn and Falmouth | 1832 | Renamed (Penryn from 1547) |
| Plaistow | 1918 | |
| Plymouth Drake | 1918 | Divided between Plymouth Devonport and Plymouth Sutton. 2nd creation 1974-97. |
| Poplar South | 1918 | |
| Portsmouth Central | 1918 | |
| Portsmouth North (1918 to 1950) | 1918 | 2nd creation from 1974 |
| Preston | 1529 | First represented 1295. Split into Preston North and Preston South. Reunited 1983 |
| Queen's University Belfast | 1918 | |
| Reading | 1295 | Split into Reading North and Reading South. Reunited 1955-74 |
| Rotherhithe | 1885 | |
| Rothwell | 1918 | |
| Royton | 1918 | |
| Rye | 1366 | 2nd creation 1955-83 |
| St Pancras South East | 1918 | |
| St Pancras South West | 1918 | |
| Salford North | 1885 | |
| Salford South | 1885 | |
| Seaham | 1918 | |
| Sheffield Central | 1885 | 2nd creation from 1983 |
| Sheffield Ecclesall | 1885 | |
| Silvertown | 1918 | |
| South Derbyshire | 1832 | 2nd creation from 1983 |
| Southend | 1918 | Split into Southend West and Southend East. |
| Southampton | 1295 | |
| South Molton | 1885 | |
| Southwark Central | 1918 | |
| Southwark North | 1918 | |
| Southwark South East | 1918 | |
| Spennymoor | 1918 | |
| Spen Valley | 1885 | |
| Stockport | 1832 | 2nd creation from 1983 |
| Stoke | 1918 | |
| Stourbridge | 1918 | 2nd creation in 1997 |
| Sunderland | 1832 | |
| Thornbury | 1885 | |
| Tottenham North | 1918 | |
| Tottenham South | 1918 | |
| University of Wales | 1918 | |
| Upton | 1918 | |
| Wansbeck | 1885 | 2nd creation from 1983 |
| Waterloo | 1918 | |
| Wentworth | 1918 | 2nd creation from 1983 |
| Westminster Abbey | 1918 | Merged into Cities of London and Westminster |
| Westminster, St George's | 1918 | Merged into Cities of London and Westminster |
| Whitechapel and St George's | 1918 | |
| Wolverhampton East | 1885 | |
| Wolverhampton West | 1885 |
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