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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
Dollimore was a councillor for the St Helier ward in the London Borough of Merton between 2021 and 2024. [6] In 2024, after the general election was called, she resigned her council seat in order to stand as the Labour parliamentary candidate for the Hastings and Rye constituency, and was subsequently elected as the MP for the seat.
She is the head of the Society of Labour Lawyers. [2]She was a councilor for four years whilst she was studying at law school. She tried to become a Member of Parliament three times at the 2015, 2017 and 2019 general elections in the Erewash constituency, coming second to the Conservative Maggie Throup on each occasion.
Labour: Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman [42] 2 January 1996 2006: Resigned from the Labour Party, became a Crossbencher Life peeress Crossbench 2006: Conservative: Judith Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox: 16 January 1996 17 December 2020 (Retired) Life peeress Crossbench: June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury: 12 July 1996 28 June 2006 Life peeress Labour
Rigby was elected as MP for Northampton North in the 2024 General Election. [16] Lucy was elected by Labour MPs a member of the Treasury Select Committee on 29 October 2024, [17] She was also subsequently elected as a delegate to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Following the Assembly's Annual Session in Montreal in November 2024, Lucy was ...
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 ...