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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[1] Party Percentage of
popular vote
George III 1st 1801 none: co-opted William Pitt
Henry Addington
Tory
2nd 1802 General election MPs Henry Addington
William Pitt
Tory
3rd 1806 General election MPs The Lord Grenville Whig
4th 1807 General election MPs The Duke of Portland
Spencer Perceval
The Earl of Liverpool
Tory
5th 1812 General election MPs The Earl of Liverpool Tory
6th 1818 General election MPs The Earl of Liverpool Tory
George IV 7th 1820 General election MPs The Earl of Liverpool Tory
8th 1826 General election MPs The Earl of Liverpool
George Canning
The Viscount Goderich
The Duke of Wellington
Tory
William IV 9th 1830 General election MPs The Earl Grey Whig
10th 1831 General election MPs The Earl Grey Whig
11th 1832 General election MPs The Earl Grey
The Viscount Melbourne
Sir Robert Peel
Whig 67.0
12th 1835 General election MPs The Viscount Melbourne Whig 55.2
Victoria 13th 1837 General election MPs The Viscount Melbourne Whig 51.7
14th 1841 General election MPs Sir Robert Peel Conservative 56.9
15th 1847 General election MPs Lord John Russell Whig 53.8
16th 1852 General election MPs The Earl of Derby
The Earl of Aberdeen
Conservative 41.9
17th 1857 General election MPs The Viscount Palmerston
The Earl of Derby
Whig 65.9
18th 1859 General election MPs The Viscount Palmerston Liberal 65.7
19th 1865 General election MPs The Earl Russell
The Earl of Derby
Benjamin Disraeli
Liberal 59.5
20th 1868 General election MPs William Ewart Gladstone Liberal 61.5
21st 1874 General election MPs Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield from 1876) Conservative 44.3
22nd 1880 General election MPs William Ewart Gladstone Liberal 54.7
23rd 1885 General election MPs The Marquess of Salisbury
William Ewart Gladstone
Liberal (minority) 47.4
24th 1886 General election MPs The Marquess of Salisbury Conservative 51.1
25th 1892 General election MPs William Ewart Gladstone
The Earl of Rosebery
Liberal (minority) 45.4
26th 1895 General election MPs The Marquess of Salisbury Conservative 49.0
27th 1900 General election MPs The Marquess of Salisbury
Arthur Balfour
Conservative 50.3
Edward VII
28th 1906 General election MPs Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Herbert Asquith
Liberal 48.9
29th 1910 (Jan) General election MPs Herbert Asquith Liberal (minority) 43.5
George V
30th 1910 (Dec) General election MPs Herbert Asquith
David Lloyd George
Liberal (minority) 43.2
31st 1918 General election MPs David Lloyd George Coalition 47.1
32nd 1922 General election MPs Bonar Law Conservative 38.5
33rd 1923 General election MPs Ramsay MacDonald Labour (minority) 30.7
34th 1924 General election MPs Stanley Baldwin Conservative 46.8
35th 1929 General election MPs Ramsay MacDonald Labour (minority) 37.1
36th 1931 General election MPs Ramsay MacDonald National Government 67.2
37th 1935 General election MPs Stanley Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
National Government 53.3
Edward VIII
George VI
38th 1945 General election MPs Clement Attlee Labour 49.7
39th 1950 General election MPs Clement Attlee Labour 46.1
40th 1951 General election MPs Winston Churchill (Sir Winston Churchill from 1953) Conservative 48.0
Elizabeth II
41st 1955 General election MPs Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Conservative 49.7
42nd 1959 General election MPs Harold Macmillan
The Earl of Home (Sir Alec Douglas-Home from 1959)
Conservative 49.4
43rd 1964 General election MPs Harold Wilson Labour 44.1
44th 1966 General election MPs Harold Wilson Labour 48.0
45th 1970 General election MPs Edward Heath Conservative 46.4
46th 1974 (Feb) General election MPs Harold Wilson Labour (minority) 37.2
47th 1974 (Oct) General election MPs Harold Wilson
James Callaghan
Labour 39.2
48th 1979 General election MPs Margaret Thatcher Conservative 43.9
49th 1983 General election MPs Margaret Thatcher Conservative 42.3
50th 1987 General election MPs Margaret Thatcher
John Major
Conservative 42.2
51st 1992 General election MPs John Major Conservative 41.9
52nd 1997 General election MPs Tony Blair Labour 43.2
53rd 2001 General election MPs Tony Blair Labour 40.7
54th 2005 General election MPs Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
Labour 35.2
55th 2010 General election MPs David Cameron Coalition 59.1
(Con: 36.1; Lib Dem: 23.0)
56th 2015 General election MPs David Cameron
Theresa May
Conservative 36.9
57th 2017 General election MPs Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Conservative 42.4
58th 2019 General election MPs Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Conservative 43.6
Charles III
59th 2024 General election MPs Sir Keir Starmer Labour 33.7

The parties listed are those that won the election. During the 19th century, the party of government sometimes changed between general elections.

Notes

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  • ^ 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.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "House of Commons | UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 July 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)