Doncaster (constituency)

Doncaster
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	West Riding of Yorkshire, then South Yorkshire
1885–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Doncaster Central and Don Valley
Created from	Southern West Riding of Yorkshire

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

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.

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

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