Parliamentary Borough - Two Seat Boroughs

Two Seat Boroughs

The last few seats to be represented by two members in the 1945-50 parliament were

  • Blackburn
  • Bolton
  • Brighton
  • City of London
  • Derby
  • Dundee
  • Norwich
  • Oldham
  • Preston
  • Southampton
  • Stockport
  • Sunderland

Three Northern Ireland county constituencies also had two seats at that time:

  • Antrim
  • Down
  • Fermanagh and Tyrone

All these seats were split for the 1950 general election.

Some university constituencies had multiple seats until their abolition in 1950:

  • Cambridge University
  • Combined English Universities
  • Oxford University

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