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Labour: Carmarthen: 1957: 1966: Died Labour: Cynthia Mosley [m] Stoke-on-Trent: 1929: 1931 (Crossed the floor) Left Labour Party, joined the New Party New Party: 1931 1931: Retired Labour: Marion Phillips: Sunderland: 1929: 1931: Defeated Labour: Edith Picton-Turbervill [n] The Wrekin: 1929: 1931: Defeated Independent: Eleanor Rathbone [o ...
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]
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
This is a list of United Kingdom Labour Party MPs. It includes all members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the British House of Commons representing the Labour Party from 1900 to 1923 and since 1992.
Labour Co-op: New seat. Previously MP for Wakefield (Labour gain at 2022 by-election) Wallasey: Labour: Angela Eagle: Labour: Walsall and Bloxwich: Conservative: Valerie Vaz: Labour: Previously MP for the abolished seat of Walsall South. Incumbent for the predecessor seat of Walsall North, Eddie Hughes, who stood unsuccessfully in Tamworth ...
Law was the sitting Labour Member of the Welsh Assembly for Blaenau Gwent who stood for the Westminster Parliament following a dispute over the selection of the official Labour candidate, Maggie Jones, involving an all women shortlist, a process that was opposed by many members and officials in the local party, including the retiring Labour MP ...
1.10 Social Democratic and Labour Party. ... 3.14 Women's Equality Party. ... 1 MP and 9 councillors Guildford Greenbelt Group
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 ...