Pontefract | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1295–1301 | |
Seats | 2 |
1621–1974 | |
Seats | 2 until 1885; 1 from 1885 to 1974 |
Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
Replaced by | Pontefract and Castleford |
Pontefract was an English parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Pontefract in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons briefly in the 13th century and again from 1621 until 1885, and one member from 1885 to 1974.