List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom
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.
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 | election | MPs | Henry Addington, William Pitt the Younger |
Tory | ||
3rd | 1806 | election | MPs | William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville | Whig | ||
4th | 1807 | election | MPs | William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Spencer Perceval, The Earl of Liverpool |
Tory | ||
5th | 1812 | election | MPs | The Earl of Liverpool | Tory | ||
6th | 1818 | election | MPs | The Earl of Liverpool | Tory | ||
George IV | 7th | 1820 | election | MPs | The Earl of Liverpool | Tory | |
8th | 1826 | election | MPs | The Earl of Liverpool, George Canning, Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington |
Tory | ||
William IV | 9th | 1830 | election | MPs | Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey | Whig | |
10th | 1831 | election | MPs | The Earl Grey | Whig | ||
11th | 1832 | election | MPs | The Earl Grey, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Robert Peel |
Whig | 67.0 | |
12th | 1835 | election | MPs | William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | Whig | 55.2 | |
Victoria | 13th | 1837 | election | MPs | William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | Whig | 51.7 |
14th | 1841 | election | MPs | Sir Robert Peel, Bt | Conservative | 56.9 | |
15th | 1847 | election | MPs | The Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell | Whig | 53.8 | |
16th | 1852 | election | MPs | Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen |
Conservative | 41.9 | |
17th | 1857 | election | MPs | Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Earl of Derby |
Whig | 65.9 | |
18th | 1859 | election | MPs | The Viscount Palmerston | Liberal | 65.7 | |
19th | 1865 | election | MPs | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, The Earl of Derby, Benjamin Disraeli |
Liberal | 59.5 | |
20th | 1868 | election | MPs | William Ewart Gladstone | Liberal | 61.5 | |
21st | 1874 | election | MPs | Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield | Conservative | 44.3 | |
22nd | 1880 | election | MPs | William Ewart Gladstone | Liberal | 54.7 | |
23rd | 1885 | election | MPs | Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, William Ewart Gladstone |
Liberal (minority) | 47.4 | |
24th | 1886 | election | MPs | The Marquess of Salisbury | Conservative | 51.1 | |
25th | 1892 | election | MPs | William Ewart Gladstone, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery |
Liberal (minority) | 45.4 | |
26th | 1895 | election | MPs | Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury |
Conservative | 49.0 | |
27th | 1900 | election | MPs | The Marquess of Salisbury, Arthur Balfour |
Conservative | 50.3 | |
Edward VII | |||||||
28th | 1906 | election | MPs | Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Herbert Henry Asquith |
Liberal | 48.9 | |
29th | 1910 (Jan) | election | MPs | Herbert Henry Asquith | Liberal (minority) | 43.5 | |
George V | |||||||
30th | 1910 (Dec) | election | MPs | Herbert Henry Asquith, David Lloyd George |
Liberal (minority) | 43.2 | |
31st | 1918 | election | MPs | David Lloyd George | Coalition | 47.1 | |
32nd | 1922 | election | MPs | Andrew Bonar Law | Conservative | 38.5 | |
33rd | 1923 | election | MPs | Ramsay Macdonald | Labour (minority) | 30.7 | |
34th | 1924 | election | MPs | Stanley Baldwin | Conservative | 46.8 | |
35th | 1929 | election | MPs | Ramsay MacDonald | Labour (minority) | 37.1 | |
36th | 1931 | election | MPs | Ramsay MacDonald | National Government | 67.2 | |
37th | 1935 | election | MPs | Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill |
National Government | 53.3 | |
Edward VIII | |||||||
George VI | |||||||
38th | 1945 | election | MPs | Clement Attlee | Labour | 49.7 | |
39th | 1950 | election | MPs | Clement Attlee | Labour | 46.1 | |
40th | 1951 | election | MPs | Winston Churchill | Conservative | 48.0 | |
Elizabeth II | |||||||
41st | 1955 | election | MPs | Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan |
Conservative | 49.7 | |
42nd | 1959 | election | MPs | Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home |
Conservative | 49.4 | |
43rd | 1964 | election | MPs | Harold Wilson | Labour | 44.1 | |
44th | 1966 | election | MPs | Harold Wilson | Labour | 48.0 | |
45th | 1970 | election | MPs | Edward Heath | Conservative | 46.4 | |
46th | 1974 (Feb) | election | MPs | Harold Wilson | Labour (minority) | 37.2 | |
47th | 1974 (Oct) | election | MPs | Harold Wilson, James Callaghan |
Labour | 39.2 | |
48th | 1979 | election | MPs | Margaret Thatcher | Conservative | 43.9 | |
49th | 1983 | election | MPs | Margaret Thatcher | Conservative | 42.3 | |
50th | 1987 | election | MPs | Margaret Thatcher, John Major |
Conservative | 42.2 | |
51st | 1992 | election | MPs | John Major | Conservative | 41.9 | |
52nd | 1997 | election | MPs | Tony Blair | Labour | 43.2 | |
53rd | 2001 | election | MPs | Tony Blair | Labour | 40.7 | |
54th | 2005 | election | MPs | Tony Blair, Gordon Brown |
Labour | 35.2 | |
55th | 2010 | election | MPs | David Cameron | Coalition | 59.1 (Con: 36.1; Lib Dem: 23.0) | |
56th | 2015 | election | MPs | David Cameron Theresa May |
Conservative | 36.9 |
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, often as an insult, since 1721.
See also
- Duration of English Parliaments before 1660
- Duration of English, British and United Kingdom Parliaments from 1660
- List of Parliaments of England
- List of Parliaments of Great Britain
- List of British Governments
- List of British ministries
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