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