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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
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 ...
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
Other categories for members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (since 1801) By Parliament: 1801–02 1802–06 1806–07 1807–12 1812–18 1818–20 1820–26 1826–30 1830–31 1831–32 1832–35 1835–37 1837–41 1841–47 1847–52 1852–57 1857–59 1859–65 1865–68 ...
The first woman elected to the House of Commons was Constance Markievicz who was elected on 14 December 1918 to the constituency of Dublin St Patrick's, but she refused to take her seat as she was a member of Sinn Féin. The first woman to take her seat as an MP was Conservative Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, elected 28 November 1919. [25]
Women's rights campaigner, CEO of Muslim Women’s Network UK: Lord Gold: 1 February 2011 Conservative Life peer Lawyer Baroness Goldie: 3 October 2013 Conservative Life peer Former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party in the Scottish Parliament (2005–2011) Baroness Golding: 13 July 2001 Labour Life peer Radiographer and former MP Lord ...