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National Liberal Party disbanded, joined the Conservative Party Conservative: 1968 Feb 1974: Defeated Conservative: Mervyn Parnicott-Pike [av] Melton: 1956: Feb 1974: Retired Conservative: Muriel Gammans [aw] Hornsey: 1957: 1966: Retired Labour: Mary McAlister [ax] Glasgow Kelvingrove: 1958: 1959: Defeated Unionist: Betty Harvie-Anderson [ay ...
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
All-women shortlists are a method of affirmative action which has been used by the Labour Party to increase the representation of women in Parliament. As of 2015, 117 Labour MPs have been elected to the House of Commons after being selected as candidates through an all-women shortlist. [ 22 ]
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 ...
One hundred and twenty one Conservative Party members of Parliament (MPs) were elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the 2024 general election, [1] the lowest number in history. [2] Party leader Kemi Badenoch is shown in bold.
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by English constituencies for the Fifty-Eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024). It includes both MPs elected at the 2019 general election, held on 12 December 2019, and those subsequently elected in by-elections.
Conservative: Bridget Monckton, 11th Lady Ruthven of Freeland [8] 31 July 1963 17 April 1982 Hereditary peeress Conservative: Elizabeth Philipps, 14th Baroness Strange [9] 19 November 1963 12 December 1974 Hereditary peeress Conservative: Frances Davidson, Baroness Northchurch [10] 13 January 1964 25 November 1985 Life peeress Conservative
Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party from the beginning of this parliament through 2 November 2024; former Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer: 175 The Hon Stephen Kinnock: Lab Aberafan Maesteg: 1 Jan 1970: 176 Neil Coyle: Lab Bermondsey and Old Southwark: 30 Dec 1978: 177