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Constituency abolished due to establishment of Irish Free State: Conservative: Nancy Astor [a] Plymouth Sutton: 1919: 1945: Retired Liberal: Margaret Wintringham [b] Louth, Lincolnshire: 1921: 1924: Defeated Conservative: Mabel Philipson [c] Berwick-upon-Tweed: 1923: 1929: Retired Labour: Margaret Bondfield: Northampton & Wallsend: 1923 & 1926: ...
This list shows women who have been elected as members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, European Union and other British devolved assemblies, as well as those elected to Mayoral positions.
Women in the House: a study of women Members of Parliament. Athlone Press. ISBN 9780485111866. All Party Parliamentary Group Women in Parliament (July 2014). "Improving Parliament: Creating a Better and More Representative House" (PDF). House of Commons "Harman's office Thatcher U-turn". BBC News. London: BBC. 16 September 2009
Election results of women in United Kingdom general elections (1918–1945) List of female members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; Mother of Parliament; Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom § Women; Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 following the ratification of the Treaty of Union by Acts of Union passed by the Parliament of England (established 1215) and the Parliament of Scotland (c. 1235), both Acts of Union stating, "That the United Kingdom of Great Britain be represented by one and the same Parliament to be styled The Parliament of Great Britain."
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 ...
Paisley North (Scottish Parliament) 14 September 2007 28 June 2008 Cathy Jamieson (acting) (b. 1956) Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Scottish Parliament) 28 June 2008 3 September 2008: Johann Lamont (b. 1957) Glasgow Pollok (Scottish Parliament) 17 December 2011: 24 October 2014 Kezia Dugdale (b. 1981) Lothian [a] (Scottish Parliament) 15 ...
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was created in 1801. In 1922 the Irish Free State ceased to be part of the UK. The official name of the United Kingdom was changed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in 1927.