Doncaster (UK Parliament constituency) explained

Doncaster
Type:	County
Year:	1885
Abolished:	1983
Elects Howmany:	One
Next:	Doncaster Central and Don Valley^[1]
Region:	England
County:	West Riding of Yorkshire, then South Yorkshire

Doncaster was a Parliamentary constituency covering the town of Doncaster in England. It was created in 1885 and abolished in 1983.

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.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Walter Shirley Shirley	Liberal
	1888 by-election	Hon. Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam	Liberal Unionist
	1892	Charles James Fleming	Liberal
	1895	Frederick Fison	Conservative
	1906	Charles Norris Nicholson	Liberal
	1918	Reginald Nicholson	Liberal
	1922	Wilfred Paling	Labour
	1931	Hugh Molson	Conservative
	1935	Alfred Short	Labour
	1938 by-election	John Morgan	Labour
	1941 by-election	Evelyn Walkden	Labour
	1950	Ray Gunter	Labour
	1951	Anthony Barber	Conservative
	1964	Harold Walker	Labour
1983		constituency abolished: see Doncaster Central & Doncaster North

Election results

Elections in the 1940s

In the 1941 Doncaster by-election, Evelyn Walkden was elected unopposed.

Elections in the 1880s

Sources

• • Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources (Election results since 1951)

Notes and References

1. Web site: 'Doncaster', Feb 1974 - May 1983. ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. 21 March 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160401171658/http://electionweb.co.uk/Bp/P74188.htm. 1 April 2016.