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Labour: Carmarthen: 1957: 1966: Died Labour: Cynthia Mosley [m] Stoke-on-Trent: 1929: 1931 (Crossed the floor) Left Labour Party, joined the New Party New Party: 1931 1931: Retired Labour: Marion Phillips: Sunderland: 1929: 1931: Defeated Labour: Edith Picton-Turbervill [n] The Wrekin: 1929: 1931: Defeated Independent: Eleanor Rathbone [o ...
Sixty-eight women have been appointed to positions in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, with three female Prime Ministers serving in cabinet.Since, by convention, members of the cabinet must be a member of either the House of Commons or House of Lords, [1] the Prime Minister could not appoint women to the cabinet until the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 allowed women to stand ...
In 1832 Henry Hunt became the first MP to raise the issue of women's suffrage in the House of Commons, [5] followed in 1867 by John Stuart Mill. Following this attempts were made to widen the franchise in every Parliament. [6] Women gained the right to vote with the passing of the Representation of the People Act 1918 after World War I. This ...
Timeline of female MPs in the House of Commons; All-women shortlists; Election results of women in United Kingdom general elections (1918–1945) Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918; Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom § Women; Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; Widow's succession
This is a list of United Kingdom Labour Party MPs. It includes all members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the British House of Commons representing the Labour Party from 1900 to 1923 and since 1992. Members of the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd or the European Parliament are not listed.
Dollimore was a councillor for the St Helier ward in the London Borough of Merton between 2021 and 2024. [6] In 2024, after the general election was called, she resigned her council seat in order to stand as the Labour parliamentary candidate for the Hastings and Rye constituency, and was subsequently elected as the MP for the seat.
This is the list of United Kingdom MPs by seniority, 2024–present. The Members of Parliament (MPs), who were elected in the 2024 general election and during the 59th Parliament, are ranked by the beginning of their terms in office in the House of Commons .
Labour Co-op: New seat. Previously MP for Wakefield (Labour gain at 2022 by-election) Wallasey: Labour: Angela Eagle: Labour: Walsall and Bloxwich: Conservative: Valerie Vaz: Labour: Previously MP for the abolished seat of Walsall South. Incumbent for the predecessor seat of Walsall North, Eddie Hughes, who stood unsuccessfully in Tamworth ...