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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: ...
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
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.
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
In 1986, the British television production company Granada Television created a near-full size replica of the post-1950 House of Commons debating chamber at its studios in Manchester for use in its adaptation of the Jeffrey Archer novel First Among Equals. The set was highly convincing, and was retained after the production—since then, it has ...
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 ...
In the United Kingdom's 2024 general election, 650 members of Parliament were elected to the country's House of Commons – one for each parliamentary constituency. [1] The UK Parliament consists of the elected House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the Sovereign. [2] The new Parliament first met on 9 July 2024. [3]