Skipton (UK Parliament constituency)

Skipton
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Skipton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1974-1983
CountyWest Riding of Yorkshire
Major settlementsSkipton
18851983
SeatsOne
Created fromNorthern West Riding of Yorkshire
Replaced bySkipton & Ripon, Pendle, Ribble Valley Westmorland & Lonsdale and Keighley[1]

Skipton was a county constituency centred on the town of Skipton in Yorkshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished nearly a hundred years later, for the 1983 general election. It was then partly replaced by the new Skipton and Ripon constituency.

  1. ^ "'Skipton', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2023.