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
editMonarch | 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
edit- ^ 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "House of Commons | UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
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