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 | |
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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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