Constituencies Abolished in 1983
The Boundary Commissions' Third Periodical Review was completed in 1983, fourteen years after the previous review. It proposed wider changes than the two earlier reviews and abolished a large number of constituencies, although many constituencies were simply renamed to conform to local government districts created in 1974.
| Created | Notes | |
|---|---|---|
| Aberdare | 1918 | |
| Aberdeenshire East | 1950 | |
| West Aberdeenshire | 1950 | Replaced by Kincardine and Deeside |
| Abertillery | 1918 | |
| Accrington | 1885 | |
| North Angus and Mearns | 1950 | |
| South Angus | 1950 | |
| Argyll | 1708 | Argyllshire 1708 to 1950 Argyll 1950 to 1983 |
| Armagh | 1922 | Split between Newry and Armagh and Upper Bann |
| Central Ayrshire | 1950 | Became Cunninghame South but revived in 2005 |
| South Ayrshire | 1868 | Renamed Carrick,Cumnock and Doon Valley |
| Banffshire | 1708 | Merged into Moray and Banff and Buchan |
| Barkston Ash | 1885 | |
| Barnsley | 1885 | Split into Barnsley Central, Barnsley East and Barnsley West and Penistone |
| Barry | 1950 | Most of constituency became Vale of Glamorgan |
| Battersea North | 1918 | Merged (minus some of Battersea South, which went into Tooting) to form Battersea |
| Battersea South | 1918 | |
| Bebington and Ellesmere Port | 1974 | |
| Bedford | 1295 | |
| Bedwellty | 1918 | |
| Beeston | 1974 | Replaced by Broxtowe |
| Belper | 1918 | |
| Bermondsey | 1885 | |
| Berwick and East Lothian | 1950 | |
| Birmingham Stechford | 1950 | |
| Bodmin | 1295 | Became North Cornwall |
| Bolton East | 1950 | |
| Bothwell | 1918 | |
| Brigg and Scunthorpe | 1974 | |
| Brighouse and Spenborough | 1950 | |
| Bristol North East | 1950 | |
| Bristol South East | 1950 | |
| Bromsgrove and Redditch | 1974 | |
| Bury and Radcliffe | 1950 | |
| Bute and North Ayrshire | 1918 | Split between Argyll and Bute and Cunninghame North |
| Cambridgeshire | 1918 | 1st creation 1290-1885 |
| Cardiff North West | 1974 | |
| Cardiff South East | 1950 | |
| Carlton | 1950 | |
| Chester-le-Street | 1885 | |
| Christchurch and Lymington | 1974 | |
| Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire | 1885 | |
| Cleveland and Whitby | 1974 | |
| Clitheroe | 1559 | |
| Coatbridge and Airdrie | 1950 | |
| Colchester | 1295 | |
| Consett | 1918 | |
| Dunbartonshire Central | 1974 | |
| Darwen | 1885 | |
| Dearne Valley | 1950 | |
| Denbigh | 1542 | |
| Doncaster | 1885 | |
| Dorking | 1950 | Succeeded by Mole Valley |
| Dover and Deal | 1974 | |
| Dunfermline | 1918 | |
| East Dunbartonshire | 1950 | Revived in 2005 |
| East Grinstead | 1885 | Second creation: first abolished in 1832 |
| East Hertfordshire | 1955 | |
| Ebbw Vale | 1918 | |
| Edinburgh North | 1918 | |
| Essex South East | 1955 | Second creation: first creation 1885 to 1945 Replaced by Castle Point |
| Eton and Slough | 1945 | |
| Eye | 1571 | replaced by Central Suffolk |
| Farnham | 1918 | Succeeded by Surrey South West |
| Farnworth | 1885 | |
| Fife East | 1885 | |
| Flintshire East | 1950 | |
| Flintshire West | 1950 | |
| Fylde North | 1950 | |
| Fylde South | 1950 | |
| Gateshead West | 1950 | |
| Glasgow Craigton | 1955 | |
| Glasgow Kelvingrove | 1918 | |
| Glasgow Queen's Park | 1974 | |
| Gloucestershire South | 1950 | |
| Goole | 1950 | |
| Gravesend | 1868 | |
| Hackney Central | 1885 | Abolished 1950-1955 |
| Haltemprice | 1950 | |
| Hammersmith North | 1918 | Replaced by Hammersmith |
| Handsworth | 1885 | |
| Harrow Central | 1950 | |
| Hemel Hempstead | 1918 | Renamed West Hertfordshire Revived 1997 |
| Hitchin | 1885 | |
| Holborn and St Pancras South | 1950 | |
| Horncastle | 1885 | |
| Horsham and Crawley | 1974 | Split into Horsham and Crawley |
| Howden | 1955 | |
| Huddersfield East | 1950 | |
| Huddersfield West | 1950 | |
| Huntingdonshire | 1918 | 1st creation 1290-1885 |
| Huyton | 1950 | |
| Ilkeston | 1885 | |
| Ince | 1885 | |
| Isle of Ely | 1918 | Succeeded by North East Cambridgeshire |
| Islington Central | 1974 | |
| Kidderminster | 1832 | Succeeded by Wyre Forest |
| Kilmarnock | 1918 | Merged into Kilmarnock and Loudoun |
| Kingston-upon-Hull Central | 1974 | Second creation: first creation 1885 to 1955 |
| Kinross and Western | 1918 | |
| Knutsford | 1885 | |
| Lambeth Central | 1974 | |
| Lanark | 1918 | Second creation: first creation 1708 to 1832 |
| Leeds South | 1885 | |
| Leeds South East | 1918 | |
| Leek | 1885 | Succeeded by Staffordshire Moorlands |
| Lichfield and Tamworth | 1950 | |
| Liverpool Edge Hill | 1918 | |
| Liverpool Kirkdale | 1885 | |
| Liverpool Scotland Exchange | 1974 | |
| Liverpool Toxteth | 1950 | |
| Liverpool Wavertree | 1918 | |
| Louth (Lincolnshire) | 1885 | |
| Lowestoft | 1885 | |
| Luton East | 1974 | |
| Luton West | 1974 | |
| Maldon | 1332 | |
| Manchester Ardwick | 1918 | |
| Manchester Moss Side | 1918 | |
| Manchester Openshaw | 1955 | |
| Melton | 1885 | |
| Middleton and Prestwich | 1918 | |
| Mid Oxfordshire | 1974 | |
| Moray and Nairn | 1918 | Split into Moray and Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber |
| Morpeth | 1553 | |
| Motherwell and Wishaw | 1974 | Split into Motherwell North and Motherwell South. Revived in 1997. |
| Nantwich | 1955 | |
| Nelson and Colne | 1918 | |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne West | 1918 | |
| Newport (Monmouthshire) | 1918 | Split into Newport East and Newport West |
| Newton (Lancashire) | 1885 | Second creation: first abolished in 1832 |
| North Lanarkshire | 1918 | Second creation: first creation 1868 to 1885 |
| North Somerset | 1950 | Second creation: first creation 1885 to 1918 |
| Northwich | 1885 | |
| Nottingham West | 1885 | |
| Oldham East | 1950 | |
| Ormskirk | 1885 | |
| Oswestry | 1885 | |
| Oxford | 1295 | Split into Oxford West and Abingdon and Oxford East |
| Paddington | 1974 | |
| Paisley | 1832 | Split into Paisley North and Paisley South |
| Penistone | 1918 | |
| Petersfield | 1547 | First represented 1307 |
| Pontypool | 1918 | |
| Preston North | 1950 | |
| Preston South | 1950 | |
| Reading North | 1974 | Second creation: first creation 1950 to 1955 |
| Reading South | 1974 | Second creation: first creation 1950 to 1955 |
| Renfrewshire East | 1885 | Revived 2005 |
| Ripon | 1530 | First represented 1295 |
| Rochester and Chatham | 1950 | |
| Rugby | 1885 | |
| Runcorn | 1950 | |
| Ross and Cromarty | 1832 | |
| Rye | 1955 | Second creation: first abolished in 1950 |
| St Helens | 1885 | Split into St Helens North and St Helens South |
| St Marylebone | 1918 | |
| St Pancras North | 1885 | |
| Salford West | 1885 | |
| Sheffield Park | 1918 | Replaced by Sheffield Central |
| Sidcup | 1974 | |
| South Bedfordshire | 1950 | |
| South East Derbyshire | 1950 | |
| South Hertfordshire | 1974 | |
| South West Staffordshire | 1974 | |
| Sowerby | 1885 | |
| Stepney and Poplar | 1974 | |
| Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth | 1974 | |
| Stockport North | 1950 | Merged to form Stockport |
| Stockport South | 1950 | Merged to form Stockport (UK Parliament constituency) |
| Stockton | 1950 | |
| Stoke Newington and Hackney North | 1950 | |
| Stratford | 1918 | |
| Sudbury and Woodbridge | 1950 | |
| Thanet East | 1974 | |
| Thanet West | 1974 | |
| Thirsk and Malton | 1885 | |
| Thornaby | 1974 | |
| Totnes | 1885 | Second creation: first abolished 1868 Revived again in 1997 |
| Warrington | 1832 | Split into Warrington North and Warrington South |
| West Devon | 1974 | |
| West Dunbartonshire | 1950 | Replaced by Dumbarton (UK Parliament constituency), revived 2005 |
| Westhoughton | 1885 | |
| West Lothian | 1945 | Split into Livingston and Linlithgow |
| West Stirlingshire | 1945 | |
| Whitehaven | 1832 | Replaced by Copeland |
| Widnes | 1885 | Replaced by Halton |
| Wirral | 1885 | Split into Wirral South and Wirral West |
| Wood Green | 1918 | |
| Woolwich East | 1918 | Reunited to form Woolwich |
| Woolwich West | 1918 |
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