1950–1955: The Borough of Brighouse, and the Urban Districts of Queensberry and Shelf, and Spenborough.
The boundaries were redrawn for the 1955 general election: Queensbury and Shelf Urban District was transferred to Bradford South while Heckmondwike Urban District was added to this seat from the pre-1955 Dewsbury.
In 1983 parliamentary seats were reorganised to reflect the changes in local government introduced in 1974.
The area had become part of the Metropolitan County of West Yorkshire and was divided between two new constituencies: Batley and Spen (including Heckmondwike and Spenborough) and Calder Valley (including Brighouse).
[3] This seat's last MP, the Conservative Gary Waller, moved to the redrawn Keighley constituency, which he held until 1997.