Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)

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Pontefract was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Pontefract in West Yorkshire founded three times, first for the Parliament of 1295, then for that of 1298, and thirdly in 1621.

During the third creation it returned two Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In 1885 it was reduced to one member. In 1974, it was abolished and replaced by the new Pontefract & Castleford constituency.

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1621-1885

Year First Member First Party Second Member Second Party

[edit] 1885-1974

Election Member Party
1885 reduced to one member
1885 Rowland Winn Conservative
1893 Harold James Reckitt Liberal
1893 Sir Thomas Willans Nussey Liberal
1910 Frederick Handel Booth Liberal
1918 Sir Joseph Compton Compton-Rickett Coalition Liberal
1919 Walter Forrest Coalition Liberal
1922 Tom Smith Labour
1924 Christopher Robert Ingham Brooke Unionist
1929 Tom Smith Labour
1931 Thomas Edmund Sotheron-Estcourt Conservative
1935 Adam Hills Labour
1941 Percy Gott Barstow Labour
1950 George Oscar Sylvester Labour
1962 Joseph Harper Labour
1974 constituency abolished: see Pontefract & Castleford

[edit] References

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