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.
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
Monarch | Number | Start date | Election | Members | Prime Minister(s) | Party | Percentage of popular vote |
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George III | 1st | 1801 | none: co-opted | William Pitt the Younger Henry Addington |
Tory | ||
2nd | 1802 | General election | MPs | Henry Addington William Pitt the Younger |
Tory | ||
3rd | 1806 | General election | MPs | William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville | Whig | ||
4th | 1807 | General election | MPs | William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland Spencer Perceval Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool |
Tory | ||
5th | 1812 | General election | MPs | Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool | Tory | ||
6th | 1818 | General election | MPs | Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool | Tory | ||
George IV | 7th | 1820 | General election | MPs | Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool | Tory | |
8th | 1826 | General election | MPs | Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool George Canning Frederick John Robinson, Viscount Goderich Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington |
Tory | ||
William IV | 9th | 1830 | General election | MPs | Charles Grey, Earl Grey | Whig | |
10th | 1831 | General election | MPs | Charles Grey, Earl Grey | Whig | ||
11th | 1832 | General election | MPs | Charles Grey, Earl Grey William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne Robert Peel |
Whig | 67.0 | |
12th | 1835 | General election | MPs | William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne | Whig | 55.2 | |
Victoria | 13th | 1837 | General election | MPs | William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne | Whig | 51.7 |
14th | 1841 | General election | MPs | Robert Peel | Conservative | 56.9 | |
15th | 1847 | General election | MPs | Lord John Russell | Whig | 53.8 | |
16th | 1852 | General election | MPs | Edward Smith-Stanley, Earl of Derby George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen |
Conservative | 41.9 | |
17th | 1857 | General election | MPs | Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston Edward Smith-Stanley, Earl of Derby |
Whig | 65.9 | |
18th | 1859 | General election | MPs | Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston | Liberal | 65.7 | |
19th | 1865 | General election | MPs | John Russell, Earl Russell Edward Smith-Stanley, 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 Archibald Philip Primrose, 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 | Henry Campbell-Bannerman H. H. Asquith |
Liberal | 48.9 | |
29th | 1910 (Jan) | General election | MPs | H. H. Asquith | Liberal (minority) | 43.5 | |
George V | |||||||
30th | 1910 (Dec) | General election | MPs | H. H. 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 | Conservative | 48.0 | |
Elizabeth II | |||||||
41st | 1955 | General election | MPs | Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan |
Conservative | 49.7 | |
42nd | 1959 | General election | MPs | Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home |
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 |
The parties listed are those that won the election. During the nineteenth century, the party of government sometimes changed between general elections.
Notes
- ^ 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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