Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency)

Pontefract and Castleford was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 2010 general election. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

1974–1983: The Municipal Boroughs of Castleford and Pontefract, and the Urban District of Featherstone.

1983–2010: The City of Wakefield wards of Castleford Ferry Fryston, Castleford Glasshoughton, Castleford Whitwood, Knottingley, Pontefract North, and Pontefract South.

The constituency covered the West Yorkshire towns of Pontefract and Castleford. It was a very safe Labour seat, made up of former mining towns and villages. The MP from 1997 until its abolition in 2010, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, is married to former fellow Labour MP, former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls.

Following their review of parliamentary representation in West Yorkshire, the number of seats in West Yorkshire were reduced by one due to population decline by the Boundary Commission for England. A new, geographically larger, constituency called Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford was created in 2010 including the whole of this constituency.

• List of parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

1. Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency)
2. Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley (UK Parliament constituency)
3. Pontefract
4. Normanton and Hemsworth (UK Parliament constituency)
5. Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)
6. Pontefract Castle
7. Morley and Outwood (UK Parliament constituency)
8. Yvette Cooper
9. Normanton
10. Normanton (UK Parliament constituency)
11. Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (UK Parliament constituency)
12. 1978 Pontefract and Castleford by-election
13. List of MPs elected in the 2024 United Kingdom general election
14. List of parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire
15. Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
16. Julian Malins
17. Geoffrey Lofthouse
18. 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies
19. List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies (2024–present) by region
20. Pontefract Library