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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
This is a list of individuals who were former or serving Members of Parliament for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by decade of death. List List of United Kingdom MPs who died in the 1990s List of United Kingdom MPs who died in the 2000s List of United Kingdom MPs who died in the 2010s List of United Kingdom MPs who died in the 2020s See also
The oldest woman at first entry to the Commons was Dr Ethel Bentham (born 5 January 1861) who was elected MP for Islington East at the 1929 general election aged 68 years and 145 days. She died in office, the first woman to do so, in 1931. Jim Allister was the oldest MP first elected at the last general election, the 2024 general election, at ...
Defeated & died [f] Conservative: Gwendolen Guinness [g] Southend: 1927: 1935: Retired Liberal: Hilda Runciman [h] St Ives (contested Tavistock) 1928: 1929: Defeated Labour: Ruth Dalton [i] Bishop Auckland: 1929: 1929: Retired Labour: Jennie Lee [j] [k] North Lanarkshire & Cannock: 1929 & 1945: 1931 & 1970: Defeated & defeated Labour: Ethel ...
The publication of the book Women in the House by Elizabeth Vallance in 1979 highlighted the under-representation of women in Parliament. [1] In more modern times concerns about the under-representation of women led the Labour Party to introduce and, decades later, abandon all-women short lists , something which was later held to breach ...
This is a list of sitting members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom who died by assassination or other culpable homicide. Spencer Perceval is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, having been shot on 11 May 1812 by John Bellingham, a merchant who blamed the government for his debt. From 1882 to 1990, six MPs ...
Astor later proposed creating a "Women's Party", but the female Labour MPs opposed that, as their party was then in office and had promised them positions. Over time, political differences separated the women MPs; by 1931 Astor became hostile to female Labour members such as Susan Lawrence. [26] [27]
This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office. In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.