Pontefract and Castleford was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until the 2010 general election.

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

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.

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.