1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Doncaster, and parts of the Sessional Divisions of Lower Strafforth and Tickhill, and Upper Strafforth and Tickhill.
1918–1950: The Municipal Borough of Doncaster, and the Urban Districts of Adwick-le-Street and Bentley-with-Arksey.
1950–1983: The County Borough of Doncaster.
The area formerly covered by this constituency is now mostly in the Doncaster Central and Doncaster North constituencies.
In the 1941 Doncaster by-election, Evelyn Walkden was elected unopposed.