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County West Riding of Yorkshire, then South Yorkshire Created from Southern West Riding of Yorkshire Replaced by Southern West Riding of Yorkshire, Doncaster Central, Don Valley | ||
Doncaster was a Parliamentary constituency covering the town of Doncaster in England. The constituency was created in 1885 and abolished in 1983.
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Boundaries
1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Doncaster, and parts of the Sessional Divisions of Lower Strafforth and Tickhill, and Upper Strafforth and Tickhill.
1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Doncaster, and the Urban Districts of Adwick-le-Street and Bentley-with-Arksey.
1950-1983: The County Borough of Doncaster.
The area formerly covered by this constituency is now mostly in the Doncaster Central and Doncaster North constituencies.
Elections in the 1940s
In the Doncaster by-election, 1941, Evelyn Walkden was elected unopposed.
References
Doncaster (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA