This is a list of former parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom, organised by date of abolition. It includes UK parliamentary constituencies that have been abolished, including those that were later recreated, but does not include constituencies that were merely renamed.
The date of creation of a constituency, in some cases, goes back to English and Welsh seats in the Parliament of England and the Scottish constituencies in the Parliament of Great Britain.
In some cases, constituencies in the unreformed House of Commons first received a summons to send representatives to Parliament at a date considerably earlier than the date after which they consistently received a summons. These cases are indicated in a note.
No account is taken, in this article, of the temporary redistribution of constituencies used for the First and Second Protectorate Parliaments in the 1650s. See First Protectorate Parliament for a list of those constituencies.
Constituencies abolished in 2024
Aberavon Aberconwy Angus Arfon Argyll and Bute Banff and Buchan Barnsley Central Barnsley East Batley and Spen Beckenham Belfast South Berwick-upon-Tweed Bethnal Green and Bow Birmingham Hall Green Birmingham Hodge Hill Blackley and Broughton Blackpool North and Cleveleys Blaenau Gwent Blaydon Blyth Valley Bolton South East Bosworth Brecon and Radnorshire Brent Central Brent North Bridgwater and West Somerset Brigg and Goole Brighton Kemptown Bristol West Broadland Bromley and Chislehurst Buckingham Burton Bury St Edmunds Camberwell and Peckham Cardiff Central Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Ceredigion Charnwood City of Chester Cleethorpes Clwyd South Clwyd West Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill Copeland Corby Coventry North East Croydon Central Croydon North Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East Cynon Valley Delyn Denton and Reddish Devizes Dewsbury Don Valley Dover Dudley North Dudley South Dundee East Dundee West Dunfermline and West Fife East Devon East Dunbartonshire East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow East Lothian East Yorkshire Eddisbury Edinburgh East Edmonton Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmet and Rothwell Eltham Enfield Southgate Fareham Garston and Halewood Gateshead Glasgow Central Glasgow North West Glenrothes Gordon Grantham and Stamford Great Grimsby Halesowen and Rowley Regis Haltemprice and Howden Halton Hammersmith Hampstead and Kilburn Harborough Hemsworth Henley Heywood and Middleton Hitchin and Harpenden Hornsey and Wood Green Hove Inverclyde Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Isle of Wight Islwyn Jarrow Keighley Kensington Kingston upon Hull North Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle Kingswood Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath Lanark and Hamilton East Lancaster and Fleetwood Leeds Central Leeds West Leigh Lewisham Deptford Lewisham West and Penge Linlithgow and East Falkirk Ludlow Luton South Maidstone and The Weald Manchester Gorton Meon Valley Meriden Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Mid Worcestershire Middlesbrough Milton Keynes South Mole Valley Monmouth Montgomeryshire Moray Morley and Outwood Motherwell and Wishaw Neath Newcastle upon Tyne Central Newcastle upon Tyne East Newport West Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford North East Bedfordshire North East Somerset North Swindon North Thanet North Tyneside North Warwickshire North West Durham North Wiltshire Nottingham North Ochil and South Perthshire Ogmore Oldham West and Royton Pendle Penrith and The Border Perth and North Perthshire Preseli Pembrokeshire Pudsey Reading East Reading West Rhondda Richmond (Yorks) Rochford and Southend East Ross, Skye and Lochaber Rutherglen and Hamilton West Rutland and Melton Saffron Walden Salford and Eccles Sedgefield Selby and Ainsty Sherwood Shrewsbury and Atcham Solihull Somerton and Frome South East Cambridgeshire South Staffordshire South Swindon South Thanet South West Bedfordshire South West Surrey Southend West Stirling Stockton South Stone Streatham Swansea East Taunton Deane The Cotswolds Tiverton and Honiton Tonbridge and Malling Torridge and West Devon Totnes Vale of Clwyd Vauxhall Wakefield Walsall North Walsall South Wansbeck Wantage Warley Washington and Sunderland West Waveney Wealden Weaver Vale Wellingborough Wells Wentworth and Dearne West Bromwich East West Bromwich West West Ham Westminster North Wirral South Wolverhampton South West Workington Worsley and Eccles Wyre and Preston North
Constituencies abolished in 2010
Created Notes Barnsley West and Penistone 1983 Barnsley East and Mexborough 1997 Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath 1997 Blackpool North and Fleetwood 1997 Bradford North 1918 Brent East 1974 Brent South 1974 Eccles 1885 Hammersmith and Fulham 1997 Kensington and Chelsea 1997 Knowsley North and Sefton East 1997 Lancaster and Wyre 1997 Meirionnydd Nant Conwy 1983 Normanton 1885 Poplar and Canning Town 1997 Rugby and Kenilworth 1983 Sheffield Hillsborough 1918 Tyne Bridge 1983 Vale of York 1997
Constituencies abolished in 2005 The Scottish UK Parliamentary constituencies were reorganised following the creation of the Scottish Parliament, in order to remove the traditional over-representation put in place to compensate for the lack of national representation.
Created Notes Aberdeen Central 1997 Ayr 1950 Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley 1983 Divided between Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock and Central Ayrshire Coatbridge and Chryston 1997 Clydebank and Milngavie 1983 Clydesdale 1983 Cunninghame North 1983 Cunninghame South 1983 Dumbarton 1983 Divided between Dunbartonshire West and Argyll and Bute Dumfriesshire 1708 Dunfermline East 1983 Dunfermline West 1983 Eastwood 1983 Edinburgh Central 1885 Edinburgh East and Musselburgh 1997 Edinburgh Pentlands 1950 Falkirk East 1983 Falkirk West 1983 Fife Central 1974 Galloway and Upper Nithsdale 1983 Glasgow Anniesland 1997 Glasgow Baillieston 1997 Glasgow Cathcart 1918 Glasgow Govan 1885 Glasgow Kelvin 1997 Glasgow Maryhill 1918 Glasgow Pollok 1918 Glasgow Rutherglen 1918 Rutherglen 1918 to 1983 Glasgow Rutherglen 1983 to 2005 Glasgow Shettleston 1918 Glasgow Springburn 1918 Greenock and Inverclyde 1997 Hamilton North and Bellshill 1997 Hamilton South 1997 Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber 1983 Kirkcaldy 1832 Linlithgow 1708 Linlithgowshire 1708 to 1945 West Lothian 1945 to 1983 Linlithgow 1983 to 2005 Paisley North 1983 Paisley South 1983 Perth 1997 Renfrewshire West (1997 to 2005) 1997 Second creation. First abolished in 1983 Ross, Skye and Inverness West 1997 Roxburgh and Berwickshire 1983
Constituencies abolished in 1997 The Boundary Commissions' Fourth Periodical Review was completed in 1995. It recommended various changes, although most of the abolitions resulting from these took place in Scotland.
Created Notes East Angus 1983 Northern half merged with Tayside North and coastal half renamed Angus Boothferry 1983 Southern section merged with Glanford and Scunthorpe to create Brigg and Goole, middle section merged with southern half of Beverley to create Haltemprice and Howden, northern section merged with northern Bridlington to create East Yorkshire Bow and Poplar 1983 Bridlington 1950 Majority incorporated into new Beverley and Holderness seat. Caithness and Sutherland 1918 Merged with part of Ross, Cromarty and Skye to form Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Carmarthen 1542 Chelmsford 1885 Revived in 2010 Chelsea 1868 Chertsey and Walton 1974 Cirencester and Tewkesbury 1918 Divided into Tewkesbury and Cotswold Clackmannan 1983 Merged with southern parts of Perth and Kinross to form Ochil Clwyd North West 1983 Colchester North 1983 Split into Essex North and Colchester Colchester South and Maldon 1983 Rural parts merged with half of Chelmsford to create Maldon and Chelmsford East, remainder becoming part of Colchester Coventry South East 1974 Coventry South West 1974 Croydon North East 1955 Croydon North West 1955 Dudley East 1974 Dudley West 1974 East Berkshire 1983 East Lindsey 1983 Fulham (1955 to 1997) 1955 Second creation. First abolished in 1918 Glasgow Garscadden 1974 Replaced by Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Central 1885 Recreated 2005 Glasgow Hillhead 1918 Replaced by Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Provan 1955 Gloucestershire West 1950 Second creation. First abolished 1885 Replaced by Forest of Dean Hamilton 1918 Most of constituency became Hamilton South, remainder merged with Motherwell South to become Hamilton North and Bellshill Hendon North 1945 Hendon South 1945 Holland with Boston 1918 Replaced by Boston and Skegness and South Holland and The Deepings Kincardine and Deeside 1983 Replaced by West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine Langbaurgh 1983 Succeeded by Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland Littleborough and Saddleworth 1983 Liverpool Broadgreen 1983 Liverpool Mossley Hill 1983 Mid Staffordshire 1983 Monklands East 1983 Monklands West 1983 Motherwell North 1983 Motherwell South 1983 Most of constituency became part of Hamilton North and Bellshill Newcastle-upon-Tyne East 1918 Revived in 2010 New Forest 1885 New Forest and Christchurch from 1918 until 1950. Replaced by New Forest East and New Forest West. Newham North East 1974 All of the constituency became part of East Ham Newham North West 1974 All of the constituency became part of West Ham Newham South 1974 Bulk of constituency split between East Ham and West Ham with a small part going into Poplar and Canning Town Norwood 1885 North Bedfordshire 1983 North Hertfordshire 1983 North West Surrey 1974 Succeeded by Surrey Heath Plymouth Drake (1974 to 1997) 1974 Second creation. First creation 1918 to 1950 Ravensbourne 1974 Richmond and Barnes 1983 Enlarged and renamed Richmond Park Ross, Cromarty and Skye 1983 Replaced by Ross, Skye and Inverness West Salford East 1950 Enlarged and renamed Salford South East Staffordshire 1983 Effectively renamed Tamworth Southend East 1950 Became Rochford and Southend East South Hams 1983 South West Cambridgeshire 1983 South West Clwyd 1983 South Worcestershire 1950 Swindon 1918 Split to form Swindon North and Swindon South Wallsend 1918 Lost its eponymous town with most of the remainder becoming North Tyneside Wanstead and Woodford 1964 Warley East 1974 Merged with half of Warley West to become Warley Warley West 1974 Split between Warley and Halesowen and Rowley Regis West Hertfordshire 1983 succeeded by Hemel Hempstead Westminster North 1983 Recreated at the 2010 general election Worthing 1945
Constituencies abolished in 1992 Due to the rapid expansion, the town of Milton Keynes, the Boundary Commission for England exceptionally recommended in 1990, between reviews, that it should be divided between two new constituencies.
Created Notes Milton Keynes 1983 Split between Milton Keynes South West and North East Milton Keynes
Constituencies abolished in 1983 The Boundary Commissions' Third Periodical Review was completed in 1983, fourteen years after the previous review. It proposed wider changes than the two earlier reviews and abolished a large number of constituencies, although many constituencies were simply renamed to conform to local government districts created in 1974.