Goole | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | 1950-1974 West Riding of Yorkshire 1974-1983 Humberside, South Yorkshire |
1950–1983 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Doncaster North, Boothferry, Pontefract & Castleford and Selby |
Created from | Pontefract |
Coordinates: 53°42′14″N 0°52′16″W / 53.704°N 0.871°W
Goole was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Goole in the West Riding of Yorkshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
It was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.
The Municipal Borough of Goole, the Urban District of Knottingley, and the Rural Districts of Goole, Osgoldcross, and Thorne.