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The aptly named Short Parliament of England was the shortest parliament to sit in any of the United Kingdom’s constituent countries. It sat for just three weeks from 13 April until 5 May 1640. The shortest Parliament of the United Kingdom was the 3rd Parliament elected at the 1806 election. It sat for 138 days from 15 December 1806 until 27 ...
The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below. There have been 58 general elections held in the UK up to and including the 2024 ...
Ambiguous term that could mean either a gain or a hold. Incumbent – the party which held the seat at the immediate previous election, irrespective of any intervening change of candidate or candidate's change of party. Major party – A party that has a realistic chance of leading government. Since 1945, every UK government has been led by the ...
The longest Parliament preceding the FTPA, other than during wartime, was the 51st Parliament (1992–1997), which lasted four years, eleven months and two days. [ 12 ] The lack of a fixed parliamentary term allowed for the prime minister to decide when to hold an election solely on partisan grounds; it was also criticised for creating ...
Longest-ever continuously-serving female MP. Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. Former Labour Leader and Leader of the Opposition 2010 and 2015 49th Parliament (elected: 9 June 1983, first met: 15 June 1983, dissolved: 18 May 1987) [14] [15] [16] 004 The Rt Hon Sir Edward Leigh: Con Gainsborough: 9 Jun 1983 [13] 005
Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British Parliament, from the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1807: From the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament Of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland in 1807, Volume 1, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme by J. Chalmers & Co., 1807; Chronological ...
The duration column is calculated from the date of the first meeting of the parliament to that of dissolution. Key to abbreviations in the NP column: CP: Convention Parliament : In seventeenth century usage a convention was a body in the form of a parliament, which had been summoned by a de facto ruler rather than a de jure monarch.
While the term was in common parlance in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it has become rarer, except in official and academic uses. [1] Both Australia and Canada have inherited the term and continue to use it. It is perhaps in more common use in those countries, which both have official catalogues of their respective ministries, whereas ...