List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies represented by sitting prime ministers
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This is a chronological list of parliamentary constituencies in the Kingdom of Great Britain and its successor state the United Kingdom which were represented by sitting prime ministers.
A majority of constituencies are or were (in the case of those abolished) in England, apart from three in Wales and six in Scotland. No prime minister has represented a constituency in Ireland or Northern Ireland.
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- ^ a b c Members of the Peerage of Scotland were not automatically permitted to sit in the House of Lords until the passing of the Peerage Act 1963. Up to that point, Scottish peers could only sit in the House of Lords if they were elected as one of the sixteen Representative Peers, or if they held, in addition to their Scottish peerage, an additional title in either the Peerage of Great Britain or the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Following the passing of the Peerage Act, all Scottish peers were given the right to a seat in the House of Lords. This right lasted until the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.
- ^ a b c Members of the Peerage of Ireland were not automatically permitted to sit in the House of Lords. Only Irish peers that had been elected as one of 28 Representative Peers (from 1801 to 1921), or those that held, in addition to their Irish peerage, an additional title in either the Peerage of Great Britain or the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This lasted until the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999. However, those Irish peers that were not entitled to a seat in the House of Lords were entitled to stand for election to the House of Commons.