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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