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List of parliaments of the United Kingdom

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This is a list of parliaments of the United Kingdom, tabulated with the elections to the House of Commons and the list of members of the House.[1]

The parliaments are numbered from the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. For previous Westminster parliaments, see the list of parliaments of Great Britain and list of parliaments of England. For pre-Union Dublin parliaments, see the list of parliaments of Ireland. For pre-1707 Scottish parliaments, see the list of parliaments of Scotland.

List of parliaments

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Monarch Number Start date Election Members Prime ministers[α] Party control[β] Percentage of
popular vote
George III

1 1801 none: co-opted William Pitt Tory
Henry Addington
2 1802 General election MPs
William Pitt
3 1806 General election MPs The Lord Grenville Whig
4 1807 General election MPs The Duke of Portland Tory
Spencer Perceval
The Earl of Liverpool
5 1812 General election MPs
6 1818 General election MPs
George IV
7 1820 General election MPs
8 1826 General election MPs
George Canning
The Viscount Goderich
The Duke of Wellington
William IV
9 1830 General election MPs The Earl Grey 59.3%
10 1831 General election MPs Whig 63.3%
11 1832 General election MPs 67.0%
The Viscount Melbourne
Sir Robert Peel
12 1835 General election MPs The Viscount Melbourne 55.2%
Victoria
13 1837 General election MPs 51.7%
14 1841 General election MPs Sir Robert Peel Conservative 56.9%
15 1847 General election MPs Lord John Russell Whig 53.8%
16 1852 General election MPs The Earl of Derby Conservative 41.9%
The Earl of Aberdeen
17 1857 General election MPs The Viscount Palmerston Whig 65.9%
The Earl of Derby
18 1859 General election MPs The Viscount Palmerston Liberal 65.7%
19 1865 General election MPs The Earl Russell 59.5%
The Earl of Derby
Benjamin Disraeli
20 1868 General election MPs William Ewart Gladstone 61.5%
21 1874 General election MPs Benjamin Disraeli[γ] Conservative 44.3%
22 1880 General election MPs William Ewart Gladstone Liberal 54.7%
23 1885 General election MPs The Marquess of Salisbury Liberal
(minority)
47.4%
William Ewart Gladstone
24 1886 General election MPs The Marquess of Salisbury Conservative 51.1%
25 1892 General election MPs William Ewart Gladstone Liberal
(minority)
45.4%
The Earl of Rosebery
26 1895 General election MPs The Marquess of Salisbury Conservative 49.0%
27 1900 General election MPs 50.3%
Edward VII
Arthur Balfour
28 1906 General election MPs Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman Liberal 48.9%
Herbert Asquith
29 1910 (Jan) General election MPs Liberal
(minority)
43.5%
George V
30 1910 (Dec) General election MPs 43.2%
David Lloyd George
31 1918 General election MPs Coalition 47.1%
32 1922 General election MPs Bonar Law Conservative 38.5%
33 1923 General election MPs Ramsay MacDonald Labour
(minority)
30.7%
34 1924 General election MPs Stanley Baldwin Conservative 46.8%
35 1929 General election MPs Ramsay MacDonald Labour
(minority)
37.1%
36 1931 General election MPs National Government 67.2%
37 1935 General election MPs Stanley Baldwin National Government 53.3%
Edward VIII
George VI
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill


38 1945 General election MPs Clement Attlee Labour 49.7%
39 1950 General election MPs 46.1%
40 1951 General election MPs Winston Churchill[δ] Conservative 48.0%
Elizabeth II
41 1955 General election MPs Anthony Eden 49.7%
Harold Macmillan
42 1959 General election MPs 49.4%
The Earl of Home[ε]
43 1964 General election MPs Harold Wilson Labour 44.1%
44 1966 General election MPs 48.0%
45 1970 General election MPs Edward Heath Conservative 46.4%
46 1974 (Feb) General election MPs Harold Wilson Labour
(minority)
37.2%
47 1974 (Oct) General election MPs Labour 39.2%
James Callaghan
48 1979 General election MPs Margaret Thatcher Conservative 43.9%
49 1983 General election MPs 42.3%
50 1987 General election MPs 42.2%
John Major
51 1992 General election MPs 41.9%
52 1997 General election MPs Tony Blair Labour 43.2%
53 2001 General election MPs 40.7%
54 2005 General election MPs 35.2%
Gordon Brown
55 2010 General election MPs David Cameron Coalition 59.1%
56 2015 General election MPs Conservative 36.9%
Theresa May
57 2017 General election MPs 42.4%
Boris Johnson
58 2019 General election MPs 43.6%
Liz Truss
Charles III
Rishi Sunak
59 2024 General election MPs Sir Keir Starmer Labour 33.7%

Notes

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  1. ^ The term prime minister was not officially recognised until Campbell-Bannerman, although the title had been in common use, if initially as an insult, since 1721.
  2. ^ The parties listed are those that won the election. During the 19th century, the party of government sometimes changed between general elections.
  3. ^ Disraeli was made the Earl of Beaconsfield from 1876, during his term as Prime Minister.
  4. ^ Churchill was made Sir Winston Churchill from 1953, during his term as Prime Minister.
  5. ^ The Earl of Home was made Sir Alec Douglas-Hom from 1959, during his term as Prime Minister.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "House of Commons | UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 July 2024.