List of UK minor party and independent MPs elected
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This is a list of members of the United Kingdom
House of Commons
who were elected as an independent
or as a member of a minor political party.
Excluded are the Speaker
, who traditionally stands for re-election without party affiliation, and MPs who were elected from a major party but then defected during a parliamentary term.
Minor party
and independent MPs in Great Britain
have been rare in recent times - there have been only ten elected since 1950.
, the Labour Party
, the Liberal Democrats and its forerunners, the Liberal Unionist Party
, the National Liberal parties, National Labour, the Scottish National Party
or Plaid Cymru
.
= by-election
= by-election
and the Tories. Before 1885 it becomes increasingly difficult to identify which MPs were independent, and Craig's classification is used.
, Nationalist Party
, Sinn Féin
, Social Democratic and Labour Party
or Ulster Unionist Party
, including those Ulster Unionists who stood as part of the Conservative Party
, are excluded, as are those identified as Nationalist Party
MPs. While these four are all currently regarded as major parties, it should be remembered that each of these parties has at times held only a single seat, and for many years Sinn Féin was a banned organisation and did not contest elections.
= by-election
(affiliated to the Conservative Party
during this period), the Nationalist Party
, Sinn Féin
, the Liberal Party
, the Liberal Unionist Party and the Home Rule candidates.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
House of Commons
British House of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...
who were elected as an independent
Independent (politician)
In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
or as a member of a minor political party.
Excluded are the Speaker
Speaker of the British House of Commons
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the United Kingdom's lower chamber of Parliament. The current Speaker is John Bercow, who was elected on 22 June 2009, following the resignation of Michael Martin...
, who traditionally stands for re-election without party affiliation, and MPs who were elected from a major party but then defected during a parliamentary term.
Minor party
Minor party
Minor party is a political party that play a smaller role than a major party in a country's politics and elections. The difference between minor and major parties can be so big that the membership total, donations, and the candidates that they are able to produce or attract are very distinct...
and independent MPs in Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
have been rare in recent times - there have been only ten elected since 1950.
British MPs
In Britain, MP are listed where they were elected as an independent, or for any party except the Conservative PartyConservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
, the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
, the Liberal Democrats and its forerunners, the Liberal Unionist Party
Liberal Unionist Party
The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party. Led by Lord Hartington and Joseph Chamberlain, the party formed a political alliance with the Conservative Party in opposition to Irish Home Rule...
, the National Liberal parties, National Labour, the Scottish National Party
Scottish National Party
The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....
or Plaid Cymru
Plaid Cymru
' is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union. was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966...
.
1950 - present
| Election | Member of Parliament | Constituency | Party/Description |
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| 2010 | Caroline Lucas Caroline Lucas Caroline Patricia Lucas is a British politician. Lucas is the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, and the Green Party's first and only Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom... |
Brighton Pavilion | Green Green Party of England and Wales The Green Party of England and Wales is a political party in England and Wales which follows the traditions of Green politics and maintains a strong commitment to social progressivism. It is the largest Green party in the United Kingdom, containing within it various regional divisions including... |
| 2006 (b) Blaenau Gwent by-elections, 2006 Two by-elections were held for the constituency of Blaenau Gwent in Wales following the death of Member of Parliament and Assembly Member Peter Law on 25 April 2006. As Law was the MP and Assembly Member , his death required by-elections in both the parliamentary seat and the equivalent Welsh... |
Dai Davies Dai Davies (politician) David Clifford Davies, commonly known as Dai Davies, was the Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Member of Parliament for the Blaenau Gwent constituency in South Wales from 2006 to 2010... 1 |
Blaenau Gwent Blaenau Gwent (UK Parliament constituency) Blaenau Gwent is a county constituency in South Wales, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- History :... |
Independent |
| 2005 United Kingdom general election, 2005 The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party under Tony Blair won its third consecutive victory, but with a majority of 66, reduced from 160.... |
Richard Taylor Richard Taylor (UK politician) Richard Thomas Taylor FRCP is an English doctor and former politician. He served as an Independent Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest between 2001 and 2010... 2 |
Wyre Forest Wyre Forest (UK Parliament constituency) Wyre Forest is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election... |
Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern is a political party based in Kidderminster, United Kingdom... |
| Peter Law Peter Law Peter John Law was a Welsh politician.- Labour Co-operative AM and Independent MP :For most of his career Law sat as a Labour Councillor and subsequently Labour Co-operative Assembly Member for Blaenau Gwent... 3 |
Blaenau Gwent Blaenau Gwent (UK Parliament constituency) Blaenau Gwent is a county constituency in South Wales, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- History :... |
Independent Labour | |
| George Galloway George Galloway George Galloway is a British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster who was a Member of Parliament from 1987 to 2010. He was formerly an MP for the Labour Party, first for Glasgow Hillhead and later for Glasgow Kelvin, before his expulsion from the party in October 2003, the same year... 4 |
Bethnal Green and Bow | RESPECT The Unity Coalition RESPECT The Unity Coalition Respect is a socialist political party in England and Wales founded in 2004. Its name is a contrived acronym standing for Respect, Equality, Socialism, Peace, Environmentalism, Community and Trade Unionism.-Policies:... |
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| 2001 United Kingdom general election, 2001 The United Kingdom general election, 2001 was held on Thursday 7 June 2001 to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. It was dubbed "the quiet landslide" by the media, as the Labour Party was re-elected with another landslide result and only suffered a net loss of 6 seats... |
Richard Taylor Richard Taylor (UK politician) Richard Thomas Taylor FRCP is an English doctor and former politician. He served as an Independent Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest between 2001 and 2010... 2 |
Wyre Forest | Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern |
| 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general... |
Martin Bell Martin Bell Martin Bell, OBE, is a British UNICEF Ambassador, a former broadcast war reporter and former independent politician... 5 |
Tatton Tatton (UK Parliament constituency) - Elections in the 1990s :- Elections in the 1980s :- Sources :* Data for the 2005 election are from the .* Data for the 2001 election are from http://www.election.demon.co.uk/.... |
Independent |
| Feb 1974 United Kingdom general election, February 1974 The United Kingdom's general election of February 1974 was held on the 28th of that month. It was the first of two United Kingdom general elections held that year, and the first election since the Second World War not to produce an overall majority in the House of Commons for the winning party,... |
Dick Taverne 6 | Lincoln Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency) Lincoln is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.... |
Democratic Labour Democratic Labour This party is not to be confused with any of the other Democratic Labour partiesDemocratic Labour was a minor political party operating in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. They were formed by the Labour MP, Dick Taverne when his Constituency Labour Party asked him to stand down as their candidate... |
| Eddie Milne Eddie Milne Edward James "Eddie" Milne was a British Labour politician, who was elected as independent candidate after deselection by his party.... 7 |
Blyth | Independent Labour | |
| 1973 (b) Lincoln by-election, 1973 The Lincoln by-election of 1 March 1973 saw the re-election of Dick Taverne as Member of Parliament for Lincoln as a Democratic Labour representative, after Taverne's pro-Common Market views saw him repudiated by the Lincoln Constituency Labour Party... |
Dick Taverne 6 | Lincoln | Democratic Labour |
| 1970 United Kingdom general election, 1970 The United Kingdom general election of 1970 was held on 18 June 1970, and resulted in a surprise victory for the Conservative Party under leader Edward Heath, who defeated the Labour Party under Harold Wilson. The election also saw the Liberal Party and its new leader Jeremy Thorpe lose half their... |
S.O. Davies 8 | Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr Tydfil (UK Parliament constituency) Merthyr Tydfil was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan. From 1832 to 1868 it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and in 1868 this was increased to two members... |
Independent Labour |
| 1959 United Kingdom general election, 1959 This United Kingdom general election was held on 8 October 1959. It marked a third successive victory for the ruling Conservative Party, led by Harold Macmillan... |
David Robertson David Robertson (UK politician) Sir David Robertson was a British accountant, company director and politician. From a Scottish family, he represented first a constituency in London and then the Scottish highlands constituency of Caithness and Sutherland... 9 |
Caithness and Sutherland Caithness and Sutherland (UK Parliament constituency) Caithness and Sutherland was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.... |
Independent Conservative |
| 1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. Despite polling over one and a half million votes more than the Conservatives, the election, held on 23 February 1950 resulted in Labour receiving a slim majority of just five... |
Capt. John MacLeod John MacLeod (politician) Sir John MacLeod TD was a British army officer, tweed designer and politician who was a Member of Parliament in the Scottish highlands for 19 years.-Family:... 10 |
Ross and Cromarty Ross and Cromarty (UK Parliament constituency) Ross and Cromarty was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1983. The constituency elected one Member of Parliament using the first-past-the-post voting system.... |
Independent Liberal |
= by-election
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
1919 - 1950
| Election | Member of Parliament | Constituency | Party/Description |
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| 1946 (b) Glasgow Bridgeton by-election, 1946 The Glasgow Bridgeton by-election was held on 29 August 1946, following the death of Independent Labour Party Member of Parliament for Glasgow Bridgeton, James Maxton.The constituency had been held by Maxton since the 1922 UK general election... |
James Carmichael | Glasgow Bridgeton Glasgow Bridgeton (UK Parliament constituency) Glasgow Bridgeton was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Glasgow. From 1885 to 1974, it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.... |
Independent Labour Party Independent Labour Party The Independent Labour Party was a socialist political party in Britain established in 1893. The ILP was affiliated to the Labour Party from 1906 to 1932, when it voted to leave... |
| 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 The United Kingdom general election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. The results were counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to... |
Ernest Millington | Chelmsford Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency) Chelmsford is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From the 2010 general election it has elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.... |
Common Wealth Party Common Wealth Party The Common Wealth Party was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom in the Second World War. Thereafter, it continued in being, essentially as a pressure group, until 1993.-The war years:... |
| Willie Gallacher Willie Gallacher William "Willie" Gallacher was a Scottish trade unionist, activist and communist. He was one of the leading figures of the Shop Stewards' Movement in wartime Glasgow and a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain... |
West Fife | Communist Party of Great Britain Communist Party of Great Britain The Communist Party of Great Britain was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy. It existed from 1920 to 1991.-Formation:... |
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| Phil Piratin Phil Piratin Philip Piratin , known as Phil Piratin, was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and one of their few Members of Parliament.... |
Mile End Mile End (UK Parliament constituency) Mile End was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Mile End district of the East End of London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.... |
Communist Party of Great Britain | |
| William Brown William Brown (UK politician) William John Brown was a British trade unionist, politician and Member of Parliament . He served as general secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association from 1919 to 1942.... |
Rugby Rugby (UK Parliament constituency) Rugby is a parliamentary constituency in Warwickshire, England. It elects one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom using the first past the post system.... |
Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... |
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| Henry Wilson Harris Henry Wilson Harris Henry Wilson Harris was editor of The Spectator from 1932-53, and independent MP for Cambridge University from 1945-50. He was in the last group of University MPs; these seats were abolished in 1950.As an educationalst, H... |
Cambridge University Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency) Cambridge University was a university constituency electing two members to the British House of Commons, from 1603 to 1950.-Boundaries, Electorate and Election Systems:... |
Independent | |
| A. P. Herbert A. P. Herbert Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, CH was an English humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist... |
Oxford University Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency) Oxford University was a university constituency electing two members to the British House of Commons, from 1603 to 1950.-Boundaries, Electorate and Electoral System:... |
Independent | |
| William Denis Kendall | Grantham Grantham (UK Parliament constituency) Grantham was a Parliamentary constituency in Lincolnshire, England.The constituency was created in 1468 as a parliamentary borough which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until the union with Scotland, and then to the Parliament of Great Britain... |
Independent | |
| Kenneth Martin Lindsay | Combined English Universities Combined English Universities (UK Parliament constituency) Combined English Universities was a university constituency represented in the United Kingdom Parliament . It was formed by enfranchising and combining all the English Universities, except for Cambridge, Oxford and London, which were already separately represented.-Boundaries:This University... |
Independent | |
| Ernest Gorden Graham Graham-Little | London University London University (UK Parliament constituency) London University was a university constituency electing one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, from 1868 to 1950.-Boundaries, electorate and history:... |
Independent | |
| John Boyd Orr | Combined Scottish Universities | Independent | |
| Eleanor Rathbone Eleanor Rathbone Eleanor Florence Rathbone was an independent British Member of Parliament and long-term campaigner for women's rights. She was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool.-Life:... |
Combined English Universities | Independent | |
| Arthur Salter | Oxford University | Independent | |
| Daniel Lipson Daniel Lipson Daniel Leopold Lipson was a politician in the United Kingdom. Originally a teacher at Cheltenham College and later a headmaster, he became a member of Cheltenham Borough council, serving as mayor during the 1930s, before he was elected as an Independent Conservative Member of Parliament for the... |
Cheltenham | Independent Conservative | |
| John Mackie | Galloway Galloway (UK Parliament constituency) Galloway was a county constituency in the Galloway area of Scotland. It elected one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system.... |
Independent Conservative | |
| Denis Nowell Pritt Denis Nowell Pritt Denis Nowell Pritt , usually known as D.N. Pritt, was a British barrister and Labour Party politician. Born in Harlesden, Middlesex, he was educated at Winchester College and London University.... |
Hammersmith North Hammersmith North (UK Parliament constituency) Hammersmith North was a borough constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith in West London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.... |
Independent Labour | |
| James Maxton James Maxton James Maxton was a Scottish socialist politician, and leader of the Independent Labour Party. A prominent proponent of Home Rule for Scotland, he is remembered as one of the leading figures of the Red Clydeside era.-Early years:... |
Glasgow Bridgeton | Independent Labour Party | |
| Campbell Stephen Campbell Stephen Rev Campbell Stephen MA BD BSc was a Scottish socialist politician.A native of Bower parish, Caithness, he was educated at Townhead Public School, Allan Glen's School and Glasgow University.... |
Glasgow Camlachie Glasgow Camlachie (UK Parliament constituency) Glasgow Camlachie was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1955.It elected one Member of Parliament using the first-past-the-post voting system.-Boundaries:... |
Independent Labour Party | |
| John McGovern | Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Shettleston (UK Parliament constituency) Glasgow Shettleston was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 2005. The Shettleston area is represented is now covered by Glasgow Central and Glasgow East.-Boundaries:... |
Independent Labour Party | |
| Murdo Macdonald | Inverness-shire Inverness-shire (UK Parliament constituency) Inverness-shire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1918.... |
Independent Liberal | |
| Capt. John MacLeod John MacLeod (politician) Sir John MacLeod TD was a British army officer, tweed designer and politician who was a Member of Parliament in the Scottish highlands for 19 years.-Family:... |
Ross and Cromarty Ross and Cromarty (UK Parliament constituency) Ross and Cromarty was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1983. The constituency elected one Member of Parliament using the first-past-the-post voting system.... |
Independent Liberal | |
| Vernon Bartlett Vernon Bartlett Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett CBE was an English journalist, politician and author who served as a Member of Parliament from 1938 to 1950.-Life:... |
Bridgwater Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency) Bridgwater was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, until 2010 when it was replaced by the Bridgwater and West Somerset constituency... |
Independent Progressive | |
| John Anderson John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, PC, PC was a British civil servant then politician who served as a minister under Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill as Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer... |
Combined Scottish Universities | National UK National Government In the United Kingdom the term National Government is an abstract concept referring to a coalition of some or all major political parties. In a historical sense it usually refers primarily to the governments of Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain which held office from 1931... |
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| Andrew Duncan | City of London City of London (UK Parliament constituency) The City of London was a United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1950.-Boundaries and boundary... |
National | |
| 1945 (b) Chelmsford by-election, 1945 The Chelmsford by-election, 1945 was a by-election held on 26 April 1945 for the British House of Commons constituency of Chelmsford in Essex. The seat was won by Ernest Millington for the short-lived Common Wealth Party.... |
Ernest Millington | Chelmsford | Common Wealth Party |
| 1945 (b) Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1945 The Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1945 was a by-election held from 9 April to 13 April 1945 for the Combined Scottish Universities, a university constituency of the British House of Commons.- Vacancy :... |
John Boyd Orr | Combined Scottish Universities | Independent |
| 1944 (b) | Hugh McDowall Lawson Hugh McDowall Lawson Hugh McDowall Lawson was a politician in the United Kingdom's short-lived Common Wealth Party, which was founded to contest parliamentary by-elections during World War II.... |
Skipton Skipton (UK Parliament constituency) Skipton was a county constituency centred on the town of Skipton in Yorkshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.... |
Common Wealth Party |
| 1944 (b) | Charles Frederick White | West Derbyshire West Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency) West Derbyshire was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1885 until it was replaced by the Derbyshire Dales constituency in the 2010 General Election, it elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post voting system.It... |
Independent |
| 1943 (b) | John Eric Loverseed John Eric Loverseed John Eric Loverseed AFC was a pilot who flew with the Royal Air Force in 1930s, with Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War, and with the RAF again the Battle of Britain, before being elected as a wartime Member of Parliament MP for the Common Wealth Party... |
Eddisbury Eddisbury (UK Parliament constituency) Eddisbury is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election.- Boundaries :... |
Common Wealth Party |
| 1942 (b) | William John Brown | Rugby | Independent |
| 1942 (b) Maldon by-election, 1942 The Maldon by-election, 1942 was a parliamentary by-election held on 25 June 1942 for the British House of Commons constituency of Maldon in Essex... |
Tom Driberg | Maldon Maldon (UK Parliament constituency) Maldon is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election... |
Independent |
| 1942 (b) | William Dennis Kendall | Grantham | Independent |
| 1942 (b) Cardiff East by-election, 1942 The Cardiff East by-election, 1942 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Cardiff East on 13 April 1942.-Vacancy:... |
Percy Grigg | Cardiff East Cardiff East (UK Parliament constituency) Cardiff East was a parliamentary constituency in Cardiff which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.- Members of Parliament :... |
National |
| 1942 (b) | George Leonard Reakes George Leonard Reakes George Leonard Reakes J. P. was a British politician. Born in Bath, Somerset, to humble circumstances. Reakes successed in becoming Mayor of Wallasey and later a Member of Parliament for Wallasey.... |
Wallasey Wallasey (UK Parliament constituency) Wallasey is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:... |
Independent |
| 1940 (b) City of London by-election, 1940 The City of London by-election, 1940 was a by-election held on 5 February 1940 for the British House of Commons constituency of City of London, which covered the "Square Mile" which was the United Kingdom's traditional financial district.... |
Andrew Duncan | City of London | National |
| 1940 (b) Newcastle upon Tyne North by-election, 1940 The Newcastle upon Tyne North by-election, 1940 was a parliamentary by-election held on 7 June 1940 for the British House of Commons constituency of Newcastle upon Tyne North.-Previous MP:... |
Cuthbert Morley Headlam | Newcastle North Newcastle upon Tyne North (UK Parliament constituency) Newcastle upon Tyne North is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:... |
Independent Conservative |
| 1940 (b) | John Charles Walsham Reith | Southampton Southampton (UK Parliament constituency) Southampton was a parliamentary constituency which was represented in the British House of Commons. Centred on the town of Southampton, it returned two Members of Parliament from 1295 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.... |
National |
| 1938 (b) | Archibald Vivian Hill | Cambridge University | Independent Conservative |
| 1938 (b) Bridgwater by-election, 1938 The Bridgwater by-election, 1938 was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Bridgwater, Somerset held on 17 November 1938... |
Vernon Bartlett | Bridgwater | Independent Progressive |
| 1938 (b) Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1938 The Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1938 was a by-election held from 21 February to 25 February 1938 for the Combined Scottish Universities, a university constituency of the British House of Commons.- Vacancy :... |
John Anderson | Combined Scottish Universities | National |
| 1937 (b) | Arthur Salter | Oxford University | Independent |
| 1937 (b) Cheltenham by-election, 1937 The Cheltenham by-election, 1937 was a parliamentary by-election held on 22 June 1937 for the British House of Commons constituency of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.... |
Daniel Lipson | Cheltenham | Independent Conservative |
| 1937 (b) | Thomas Edmund Harvey Thomas Edmund Harvey Thomas Edmund Harvey was an English museum curator, social reformer and politician. He sat in Parliament first as a Liberal and later as an Independent Progressive Member of Parliament... |
Combined English Universities | Independent Progressive |
| 1935 United Kingdom general election, 1935 The United Kingdom general election held on 14 November 1935 resulted in a large, though reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Conservative Stanley Baldwin. The greatest number of MPs, as before, were Conservative, while the National Liberal vote held steady... |
Willie Gallacher | West Fife | Communist Party of Great Britain |
| A. P. Herbert | Oxford University | Independent | |
| Eleanor Rathbone | Combined English Universities | Independent | |
| George Buchanan George Buchanan (politician) George Buchanan was born in Glasgow, Scotland. A committed socialist, he joined the Independent Labour Party .Buchanan was vice-chairman of Glasgow Trades Council and sat on the city council from 1919 to 1923... |
Glasgow Gorbals Glasgow Gorbals (UK Parliament constituency) Glasgow Gorbals was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Glasgow. From 1918 until 1974, it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post system.-Boundaries:... |
Independent Labour Party | |
| James Maxton | Glasgow Bridgeton | Independent Labour Party | |
| John McGovern | Glasgow Shettleston | Independent Labour Party | |
| Campbell Stephen | Glasgow Camlachie | Independent Labour Party | |
| Austin Hopkinson Austin Hopkinson Austin Hopkinson JP was a British industrialist and Member of Parliament for constituencies in present-day Greater Manchester who was notable for rejecting membership of political parties and sitting as an Independent member. He represented Mossley from 1918 to 1929 and 1931 to 1945... |
Mossley Mossley (UK Parliament constituency) Mossley was a parliamentary constituency which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Parliament.... |
National Independent | |
| Sir Ernest Graham-Little Ernest Graham-Little Sir Ernest Gordon Graham Graham-Little was a dermatologist and British Member of Parliament for London University from 1924 until 1950, sitting variously as an Independent and a National Independent. Graham-Little was born in Monghyr, Bengal, India, to Michael and Anna Little... |
London University | National Independent | |
| Ivor Guest | Breconshire and Radnorshire Brecon and Radnorshire (UK Parliament constituency) Brecon and Radnorshire is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Created in 1918, it elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election; until 1997 its name was simply Brecon and Radnor.The Brecon and Radnorshire Welsh... |
National Independent | |
| 1931 United Kingdom general election, 1931 The United Kingdom general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. It was also the last election, and the only one under universal suffrage, where one party received an absolute majority of the votes cast.The 1931 general election was the... |
Eleanor Rathbone | Combined English Universities | Independent |
| Josiah Wedgwood Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, DSO, PC, DL sometimes referred to as Josiah Wedgwood IV was a British Liberal and Labour politician who served in government under Ramsay MacDonald... ¹ |
Newcastle-under-Lyme Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency) Newcastle-under-Lyme is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- History :... |
Independent Labour | |
| George Buchanan ¹ | Glasgow Gorbals | Independent Labour Party | |
| David Kirkwood David Kirkwood David Kirkwood, 1st Baron Kirkwood, PC was a socialist from the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, viewed as a leading figure of the Red Clydeside era.Kirkwood was educated at Parkhead Public School and was trained as an engineer.... ¹ |
Dumbarton Burghs | Independent Labour Party | |
| James Maxton ¹ | Glasgow Bridgeton | Independent Labour Party | |
| John McGovern ¹ | Glasgow Shettleston | Independent Labour Party | |
| Richard Wallhead ¹ | Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr Tydfil (UK Parliament constituency) Merthyr Tydfil was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan. From 1832 to 1868 it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and in 1868 this was increased to two members... |
Independent Labour Party | |
| David Lloyd George David Lloyd George David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman... |
Caernarvon | Independent Liberal | |
| Gwilym Lloyd George Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby Major Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby PC TD was a British politician and cabinet minister. A younger son of Prime Minister David Lloyd George, he served as Home Secretary from 1954 to 1957.... |
Pembrokeshire Pembrokeshire (UK Parliament constituency) Pembrokeshire was a parliamentary constituency based on the county of Pembrokeshire in Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.- History :... |
Independent Liberal | |
| Megan Lloyd George Megan Lloyd George Lady Megan Arfon Lloyd George CH was a British politician, the first female Member of Parliament for a Welsh constituency, and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. She later became a Labour MP.... |
Anglesey | Independent Liberal | |
| Goronwy Owen | Caernarvonshire Caernarvonshire (UK Parliament constituency) Caernarvonshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885 and from 1918 until 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post... |
Independent Liberal | |
| Gordon Campbell Gordon Campbell, VC Vice Admiral Gordon Campbell VC, DSO & Two Bars was an English naval officer, later a writer and politician, who was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces... |
Burnley Burnley (UK Parliament constituency) Burnley is a borough constituency centred on the town of Burnley in Lancashire, which is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.... |
National UK National Government In the United Kingdom the term National Government is an abstract concept referring to a coalition of some or all major political parties. In a historical sense it usually refers primarily to the governments of Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain which held office from 1931... |
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| I. M. Horobin | Southwark Central Southwark Central (UK Parliament constituency) Southwark Central was a borough constituency returning a single Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom through the first past the post voting system... |
National | |
| J. A. Leckie Joseph Leckie Joseph Alexander Leckie was a British Liberal, later Liberal National politician and leather manufacturer.-Education and business life:... |
Walsall Walsall (UK Parliament constituency) Walsall was a borough constituency centred on the town of Walsall in the West Midlands of England. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.... |
National | |
| Austin Hopkinson | Mossley | National Independent | |
| Ernest Graham-Little | London University | National Independent | |
| 1930 (b) | Ernest Taylor Ernest Augustus Taylor Vice-Admiral Sir Ernest Augustus Taylor was a British Royal Navy officer and politician. He was Member of Parliament for Paddington South from 1930 to 1950.-References:... |
Paddington South Paddington South (UK Parliament constituency) Paddington South was a Parliamentary constituency in London which returned one Member of Parliament. It was a compact urban area, but predominantly wealthy, and was most famously represented by Lord Randolph Churchill during the latter part of his career.... |
Empire Free Trade Crusade Empire Free Trade Crusade The Empire Free Trade Crusade was a political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Lord Beaverbrook in July 1929 to press for the British Empire to become a free trade bloc.... |
| 1929 United Kingdom general election, 1929 -Seats summary:-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987*-External links:***... |
Ernest Graham-Little | London University | Independent |
| Robert Newman Robert Newman, 1st Baron Mamhead Robert Hunt Stapylton Dudley Lydston Newman, 1st Baron Mamhead , known as Sir Robert Newman, Bt, between 1892 and 1931, was a British politician.-Background:Newman was the son of Sir Lydston Newman, 3rd Baronet... |
Exeter Exeter (UK Parliament constituency) Exeter is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.... |
Independent | |
| Eleanor Rathbone | Combined English Universities | Independent | |
| Thomas Robinson Thomas Robinson (Stretford politician) Sir Thomas Robinson KBE was an English industrialist, Liberal politician and Member of Parliament, who late in his career sat in the House of Commons as an Independent.-Birth and family:... |
Stretford Stretford (UK Parliament constituency) Stretford was a parliamentary constituency in North West England, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.... |
Independent | |
| Neil Maclean ² | Glasgow Govan Glasgow Govan (UK Parliament constituency) Glasgow Govan was a parliamentary constituency in the Govan district of Glasgow. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 2005, returning one Member of Parliament elected by the first-past-the-post system.The area which the constituency... |
Independent Labour | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland Liverpool Scotland (UK Parliament constituency) Liverpool Scotland was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.... |
Nationalist Party (Ireland) Nationalist Party (Ireland) The Nationalist Party was a term commonly used to describe a number of parliamentary political parties and constituency organisations supportive of Home Rule for Ireland from 1874 to 1922... |
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| Edwin Scrymgeour Edwin Scrymgeour Edwin Scrymgeour , was a Member of Parliament for Dundee, Scotland. He is the only person ever elected to the House of Commons on a prohibitionist ticket as the candidate of the Scottish Prohibition Party.... |
Dundee Dundee (UK Parliament constituency) Dundee was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1950, when it was split into Dundee East and Dundee West.... |
Scottish Prohibition Party Scottish Prohibition Party The Scottish Prohibition Party was a minor Scottish political party which advocated alcohol prohibition.The party was founded in 1901. In its early years, Bob Stewart acted as the party's full-time organiser... |
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| 1924 United Kingdom general election, 1924 - Seats summary :- References :* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* - External links :* * *... |
Shapurji Saklatvala Shapurji Saklatvala Shapurji Saklatvala was a British politician of Indian Parsi heritage. He was the third Indian Member of Parliament in the Parliament of the United Kingdom after fellow Parsis Dadabhai Naoroji and Mancherjee Bhownagree.... |
Battersea North Battersea North (UK Parliament constituency) -Elections in the 1960s:-Elections in the 1950s:-Elections in the 1940s:Francis Douglas was appointed Governor of Malta, leading to a by-election.... |
Communist Party of Great Britain |
| Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice... |
Epping Epping (UK Parliament constituency) Epping was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1974. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election... |
Constitutionalist | |
| John Hugh Edwards John Hugh Edwards Hugh Edwards was a British Liberal Party politician.Aberystwyth-born Edwards was an author, having written a history of Wales and three biographies of David Lloyd George. He was a governor of University College Aberystwyth and University College Cardiff... |
Accrington Accrington (UK Parliament constituency) Accrington was a parliamentary constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election.-History:... |
Constitutionalist | |
| Abraham England Abraham England Abraham England was a British Liberal politician, businessman and soldier.-Early life:Abraham England was born at Barrowford, near Nelson in Lancashire and pursued a business career in Manchester. He joined the Territorial Force as a volunteer and during the First World War he served in Egypt,... |
Heywood and Radcliffe Heywood and Radcliffe (UK Parliament constituency) Heywood and Radcliffe was a county constituency centred on the towns of Heywood and Radcliffe in South Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.-History:Under the Representation of... |
Constitutionalist | |
| Hamar Greenwood Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood PC, KC , known as Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt, between 1915 and 1929 and as The Lord Greenwood between 1929 and 1937, was a Canadian-born British lawyer and politician... |
Walthamstow East Walthamstow East (UK Parliament constituency) Walthamstow East was a parliamentary constituency in what was then the Municipal Borough of Walthamstow in east London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.The constituency was... |
Constitutionalist | |
| Frederick Edward Guest Frederick Edward Guest Frederick Edward Guest CBE DSO PC , often known as Freddie Guest, was a British politician best known for being Chief Whip of Prime Minister David Lloyd George's Coalition Liberal Party between 1917 and 1921. He was also Secretary of State for Air between 1921 and 1922... |
Bristol North Bristol North (UK Parliament constituency) Bristol North was a borough constituency which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.- Members of Parliament :... |
Constitutionalist | |
| Algernon Henry Moreing | Camborne Camborne (UK Parliament constituency) Camborne was a county constituency in Cornwall which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom... |
Constitutionalist | |
| Thomas Robinson | Stretford Stretford (UK Parliament constituency) Stretford was a parliamentary constituency in North West England, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.... |
Constitutionalist | |
| John Ward John Ward (trade unionist) Lieutenant-Colonel John Ward CB CMG was an English politician, trade union leader and soldier.-Early life:... |
Stoke Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke (UK Parliament constituency) Stoke was a borough constituency in Stoke-on-Trent which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Elections were held using the first past the post voting system.- History :... |
Constitutionalist | |
| Austin Hopkinson | Mossley | Independent | |
| Ernest Graham-Little | London University | Independent | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
| Edwin Scrymgeour | Dundee | Scottish Prohibition Party | |
| 1923 United Kingdom general election, 1923 -Seats summary:-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987*-External links:***... |
George M. L. Davies | University of Wales University of Wales (UK Parliament constituency) University of Wales was a university constituency electing one member to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, from 1918 to 1950. It returned one Member of Parliament , elected under the first-past-the-post voting system.... |
Christian Pacifist |
| Austin Hopkinson | Mossley | Independent | |
| Oswald Mosley Oswald Mosley Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet, of Ancoats, was an English politician, known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists... |
Harrow Harrow (UK Parliament constituency) Harrow was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Harrow suburb of North London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.... |
Independent | |
| Rhys Hopkin Morris Rhys Hopkin Morris Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris was a Welsh Liberal politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1923–1932 and from 1945–1956.... |
Cardiganshire | Independent Liberal | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
| Edwin Scrymgeour | Dundee | Scottish Prohibition Party | |
| 1922 United Kingdom general election, 1922 The United Kingdom general election of 1922 was held on 15 November 1922. It was the first election held after most of the Irish counties left the United Kingdom to form the Irish Free State, and was won by Andrew Bonar Law's Conservatives, who gained an overall majority over Labour, led by John... |
Walton Newbold Walton Newbold John Turner Walton Newbold , known as Walton Newbold, was the first Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom to be elected as a Communist.-Early years:... |
Motherwell Motherwell (UK Parliament constituency) Motherwell was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1974. It was formed by the division of Lanarkshire. The name was changed in 1974 to Motherwell and Wishaw... |
Communist Party of Great Britain |
| George Jarrett | Dartford Dartford (UK Parliament constituency) -Elections in the 2000s:-Elections in the 1990s:-Notes and references:... |
Constitutionalist | |
| Austin Hopkinson | Mossley | Independent | |
| Oswald Mosley | Harrow | Independent | |
| G. H. Roberts | Norwich Norwich (UK Parliament constituency) Norwich was a borough constituency which was represented in the House of Commons of England from 1298 to 1707, in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election... |
Independent | |
| H. T. A. Becker | Richmond Richmond (Surrey) (UK Parliament constituency) Not to be confused with the Richmond constituency in Yorkshire.Richmond was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Richmond, which is in the north-western part of the historic county of Surrey and in South London... |
Independent Conservative | |
| James Malcolm Monteith Erskine | Westminster St George's Westminster St George's (UK Parliament constituency) Westminster St George's, originally named St George's, Hanover Square, was a parliamentary constituency in Central London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system of election.-History:The... |
Independent Conservative | |
| Gordon Ralph Hall Caine | East Dorset East Dorset (UK Parliament constituency) East Dorset is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was formally known as the Eastern Division of Dorset. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom... |
Independent Conservative | |
| Owen Thomas | Anglesey | Independent Labour | |
| James Ramsay Montagu Butler James Ramsay Montagu Butler Sir James Butler was a British politician and academic.Butler was born at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his father was master of the college. Butler attended Harrow School and then Trinity College... |
Cambridge University Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency) Cambridge University was a university constituency electing two members to the British House of Commons, from 1603 to 1950.-Boundaries, Electorate and Election Systems:... |
Independent Liberal | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
| Edwin Scrymgeour | Dundee | Scottish Prohibition Party | |
| 1921 (b) Hertford by-election, 1921 The East Hertfordshire division by-election of 1921 was held on 16 June 1921. It had been necessitated by the resignation of the incumbent MP, Noel Pemberton Billing due to ill-health.... |
Murray Sueter Murray Sueter Sir Murray Fraser Sueter, CB, MP was a Royal Naval officer who was noted as a pioneer of naval aviation and later became a Member of Parliament .-Naval career:... |
Hertford Hertford (UK Parliament constituency) Hertford was the name of a parliamentary constituency in Hertfordshire, which elected Members of Parliament from 1298 until 1974. It was represented in the House of Commons of England from 1298 to 1707, then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally in the House of... |
Anti-Waste League Anti-Waste League The Anti-Waste League was a political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1921 by Lord Rothermere.The formation of the League was announced in a January 1921 edition of the Sunday Pictorial with Rothermere attacking what he saw as government waste during a time of recession. As such the party... and Independent Independent Parliamentary Group The Independent Parliamentary Group was a right-wing political organisation in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1920 by Horatio Bottomley, elected in the 1918 UK general election as an independent Member of Parliament.... |
| 1921 (b) | James Malcolm Monteith Erskine | Westminster St George's | Anti-Waste League |
| 1921 (b) | Thomas Andrew Polson Thomas Andrew Polson Colonel Sir Thomas Andrew Polson, KBE, CMG, TD, was Anglo-Irish author who was briefly the Member of Parliament for Dover.... |
Dover Dover (UK Parliament constituency) Dover is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:... |
Independent |
| 1920 (b) | Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend Major General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend KCB, DSO was a British Indian Army officer who led the ultimately disastrous first British Expedition against Baghdad during World War I, and was later elected to Parliament.... |
Wrekin | Independent |
| 1920 (b) | Charles Palmer Charles Frederick Palmer Charles Frederick Palmer was a British journalist and newspaper editor, closely associated at the end of his career with the politician and business fraudster Horatio Bottomley. Palmer sat briefly in the House of Commons after winning a by-election as an Independent in February 1920.-Career:Palmer... |
Wrekin | Independent |
= by-election
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
1832 - 1918
Excluded during this period are MPs from the Conservative and Liberal Parties, the Labour Party and the Labour Representation Committee, the Liberal Unionist Party, the WhigsBritish Whig Party
The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
and the Tories. Before 1885 it becomes increasingly difficult to identify which MPs were independent, and Craig's classification is used.
| Election | Member of Parliament | Constituency | Party/Description |
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| 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 The United Kingdom general election of 1918 was the first to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918, which meant it was the first United Kingdom general election in which nearly all adult men and some women could vote. Polling was held on 14 December 1918, although the count did... |
Henry Douglas King | North Norfolk North Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency) North Norfolk is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.... |
Coalition Independent |
| Alfred Waterson Alfred Waterson Alfred Edward Waterson was a Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. He was the first Co-operative Party MP.Born in Derby, Waterson was a railwayman and activist in his trade union... |
Kettering Kettering (UK Parliament constituency) Kettering is a county constituency in Northamptonshire which returns one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.... |
Co-operative Party Co-operative Party The Co-operative Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom committed to supporting and representing co-operative principles. The party does not put up separate candidates for any UK election itself. Instead, Co-operative candidates stand jointly with the Labour Party as "Labour... |
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| Horatio Bottomley Horatio Bottomley Horatio William Bottomley was a British financier, swindler, journalist, newspaper proprietor, populist politician and Member of Parliament .-Early life:... |
Hackney South Hackney South (UK Parliament constituency) Hackney South was a parliamentary constituency in "The Metropolis" . It was represented by nine Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, only two of whom, Horatio Bottomley and Herbert Morrison, were returned.- History :The constituency was created... |
Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... |
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| Noel Pemberton-Billing | Hertford Hertford (UK Parliament constituency) Hertford was the name of a parliamentary constituency in Hertfordshire, which elected Members of Parliament from 1298 until 1974. It was represented in the House of Commons of England from 1298 to 1707, then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally in the House of... |
Independent | |
| Frank Herbert Rose Frank Herbert Rose Frank Herbert Rose was Labour MP for Aberdeen North from 1918 to his death.Prior to his election in this constituency, he had been the first Labour Parliamentary candidate for Crewe, in 1910.... |
Aberdeen North Aberdeen North (UK Parliament constituency) Aberdeen North is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and it elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election... |
Independent Labour | |
| Owen Thomas | Anglesey | Independent Labour | |
| Josiah Wedgwood Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, DSO, PC, DL sometimes referred to as Josiah Wedgwood IV was a British Liberal and Labour politician who served in government under Ramsay MacDonald... |
Newcastle-under-Lyme Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency) Newcastle-under-Lyme is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- History :... |
Independent Liberal | |
| Robert Hewitt Barker Robert Hewitt Barker Robert Hewitt Barker was a British textile mill owner. He was the independent Member of Parliament for Sowerby, 1918–1922, with the support of the National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers.... |
Sowerby Sowerby (UK Parliament constituency) Sowerby was a county constituency centred on the village of Sowerby in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.-History:... |
Independent NADSS National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers The National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers was a British veterans' organisation.The group was founded in early 1917 at a conference in Blackburn, drawing together various local groups representing working men who had served in World War I but had since been discharged. It... |
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| George Nicoll Barnes George Nicoll Barnes George Nicoll Barnes CH PC was a Scottish politician and a leader of the Labour Party.Barnes was born in Lochee, Dundee, the second of five sons of James Barnes, a skilled engineer and mill manager from Yorkshire, and his wife, Catherine Adam Langlands... |
Glasgow Gorbals Glasgow Gorbals (UK Parliament constituency) Glasgow Gorbals was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Glasgow. From 1918 until 1974, it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post system.-Boundaries:... |
Coalition National Democratic Party | |
| Allen Clement Edwards | East Ham South East Ham South (UK Parliament constituency) East Ham South was a parliamentary constituency centred on the East Ham district of London, which was in Essex until 1965. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.- History :The... |
Coalition National Democratic Party | |
| Joseph Frederick Green | Leicester West Leicester West (UK Parliament constituency) Leicester West is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- Boundaries :... |
Coalition National Democratic Party | |
| Eldred Hallas | Birmingham Duddeston Birmingham Duddeston (UK Parliament constituency) Birmingham Duddeston was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1950. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election.- Boundaries :... |
Coalition National Democratic Party | |
| Charles Jesson | Walthamstow West Walthamstow West (UK Parliament constituency) Walthamstow West was a borough constituency in what is now the London Borough of Waltham Forest, but was until 1965 the Walthamstow Urban District of Essex... |
Coalition National Democratic Party | |
| Charles Edgar Loseby Charles Edgar Loseby Charles Edgar Loseby was a captain, lawyer and British politician being Member of Parliament for Bradford East.Before World War I, he was a teacher at St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne. He joined the army in September 1914 and went to serve in France... |
Bradford East Bradford East (UK Parliament constituency) Bradford East is the name of a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency originally existed from 1885 to 1974 and was recreated for the 2010 general election, electing one Member of Parliament by the first past the post... |
Coalition National Democratic Party | |
| Matthew Turnbull Simm Matthew Turnbull Simm Matthew Turnbull Simm was a National Democratic and Labour Party Member of Parliament representing Wallsend, from 1918 to 1922.... |
Wallsend Wallsend (UK Parliament constituency) Wallsend was a parliamentary constituency centred on Wallsend, a town on the north bank of the River Tyne in North Tyneside.It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.It was... |
Coalition National Democratic Party | |
| James Andrew Seddon James Andrew Seddon James Andrew Seddon was a British trades unionist and politician. Originally a member of the Labour Party, he subsequently moved to the National Democratic and Labour Party.... |
Hanley Hanley (UK Parliament constituency) Hanley was a borough constituency in Staffordshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1885 and 1950. Elections were held using the first past the post voting system.- History :... |
Coalition National Democratic Party | |
| James Walton James Walton (MP) James Walton was a British miner and politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Don Valley in Yorkshire from 1918 to 1922.... |
Don Valley Don Valley (UK Parliament constituency) Don Valley is a parliamentary constituency which returns one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.Created in 1918, Don Valley is a former coal mining area which has elected only Labour MPs since 1922... |
Coalition National Democratic Party | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland Liverpool Scotland (UK Parliament constituency) Liverpool Scotland was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.... |
Nationalist Party (Ireland) Nationalist Party (Ireland) The Nationalist Party was a term commonly used to describe a number of parliamentary political parties and constituency organisations supportive of Home Rule for Ireland from 1874 to 1922... |
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| Richard Cooper | Walsall Walsall (UK Parliament constituency) Walsall was a borough constituency centred on the town of Walsall in the West Midlands of England. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.... |
National Party National Party (UK, 1917) The National Party was a short-lived British political party created in August 1917 as a right-wing split from the Conservative Party.-Formation:... |
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| Henry Page Croft | Bournemouth Bournemouth (UK Parliament constituency) Bournemouth is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. The seaside resort was created as a parliamentary borough in 1918 and the seat existed until it was divided in 1950... |
National Party | |
| John Joseph Jones | Silvertown Silvertown (UK Parliament constituency) Silvertown was a borough constituency returning a single Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom through the first-past-the-post voting system. The constituency was one of four divisions of the Parliamentary Borough of West Ham, which had at the time... |
National Socialist Party National Socialist Party (UK) The National Socialist Party was a small political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1916. It originated as a minority group within the British Socialist Party who supported British participation in World War I; while historically linked with the Marxist left, the party grew more moderate... |
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| 1917 (b) | Benjamin Tillett | Salford North Salford North (UK Parliament constituency) Salford North was a parliamentary constituency in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester from 1885 until 1950. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.-History:... |
Independent Labour |
| 1916 (b) | Noel Pemberton Billing Noel Pemberton Billing Noel Pemberton Billing was an English aviator, inventor, publisher, and Member of Parliament. He founded the firm that became Supermarine and promoted air power, but he held a strong antipathy towards the Royal Aircraft Factory and its products... |
Hertford Hertford (UK Parliament constituency) Hertford was the name of a parliamentary constituency in Hertfordshire, which elected Members of Parliament from 1298 until 1974. It was represented in the House of Commons of England from 1298 to 1707, then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally in the House of... |
Independent |
| 1915 (b) | Charles Butt Stanton | Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr Tydfil (UK Parliament constituency) Merthyr Tydfil was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan. From 1832 to 1868 it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and in 1868 this was increased to two members... |
Independent Labour |
| 1913 (b) | John Wakefield Weston | Kendal Kendal (UK Parliament constituency) Kendal was a parliamentary borough centred on the town of Kendal in Westmorland. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.-History:... |
Independent Conservative |
| Dec 1910 | Francis Bennett-Goldney Francis Bennett-Goldney Francis Bennett-Goldney , born Francis Evans, was the Independent Unionist Member of Parliament for Canterbury and mayor of Canterbury 1906-1911, who died in World War I.... |
Canterbury Canterbury (UK Parliament constituency) Canterbury is a county constituency which has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 1918. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.... |
Independent Conservative |
| Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
| Jan 1910 | Archibald Cameron Corbett | Glasgow Tradeston Glasgow Tradeston (UK Parliament constituency) Glasgow Tradeston was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1955. It elected one Member of Parliament using the first-past-the-post voting system.-Boundaries:... |
Independent Liberal |
| Samuel Storey Samuel Storey Samuel Storey was a British politician born in County Durham. He became a Member of Parliament for Sunderland and the main founder of the Sunderland Echo newspaper.-Early life:... |
Sunderland Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency) Sunderland was a borough constituency of the House of Commons, created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election. It elected two Members of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election until it was split into single-member seats of Sunderland North and Sunderland South for the 1950... |
Independent Conservative | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
| 1907 (b) | Victor Grayson Victor Grayson Albert Victor Grayson was an English socialist politician of the early 20th century. A Member of Parliament from 1907 to 1910, his sudden and still-unexplained disappearance in 1920 is widely believed to have been the result of his intention to reveal evidence of corruption at the highest levels... |
Colne Valley Colne Valley (UK Parliament constituency) Colne Valley is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. In the post-war period the seat had the distinction of being one of the few Labour/Liberal marginals,... |
Independent Labour |
| 1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 -Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1906*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:***-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**... |
John Wilkinson Taylor John Wilkinson Taylor (politician) John Wilkinson Taylor was a British Labour Party politician.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Chester-le-Street at the 1906 general election, and held the seat until he resigned in 1919 due to ill-health.... |
Chester-le-Street Chester-le-Street (UK Parliament constituency) Chester-le-Street was a county constituency centred on the town of Chester-le-Street in County Durham. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.... |
Independent Labour |
| John Williams John Williams (Welsh politician) John Williams was a Welsh Labour Party politician.Williams was a Miners Agent, a close associate of William Abraham and a prominent Liberal-Labour politician.... |
Gower Gower (UK Parliament constituency) Gower is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament , using the first-past-the-post voting system.... |
Independent Lib-Lab | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
| 1904 (b) | John Seely J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone CB, CMG, DSO, PC, TD was a British soldier and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1900 to 1904 and a Liberal MP from 1904 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1924... |
Isle of Wight Isle of Wight (UK Parliament constituency) Isle of Wight is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Created by the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election, it covers the whole of the Isle of Wight and elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post voting system.-... |
Independent Conservative |
| 1902 (b) | John Cathcart Wason | Orkney and Shetland Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency) Orkney and Shetland is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election... |
Independent Liberal |
| 1900 United Kingdom general election, 1900 -Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1900*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:***-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**... |
John Austin Sir John Austin, 1st Baronet Sir John Austin, 1st Baronet was a Liberal Party politician in England.At the 1886 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Osgoldcross in the West Riding of Yorkshire, defeating the sitting MP Sir John Ramsden, Bt... |
Osgoldcross Osgoldcross (UK Parliament constituency) Osgoldcross was a parliamentary constituency in the Osgoldcross Rural District of West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.- History :... |
Independent Liberal |
| Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
| 1899 (b) Osgoldcross by-election, 1899 The Osgoldcross by-election, 1899 was a parliamentary by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Osgoldcross in the West Riding of Yorkshire held on 5 July 1899.-Vacancy:... |
John Austin | Osgoldcross | Independent Liberal |
| 1895 United Kingdom general election, 1895 The United Kingdom general election of 1895 was held from 13 July - 7 August 1895. It was won by the Conservatives led by Lord Salisbury who formed an alliance with the Liberal Unionist Party and had a large majority over the Liberals, led by Lord Rosebery... |
Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) |
| 1894 (b) | John Macleod John MacLeod (Sutherland politician) John MacLeod was MP for Sutherland. His political allegiance Liberal/Crofter Party .He was returned unopposed at a by-election in 1894, defeated a Liberal Unionist in 1895, but lost it fairly narrowly to the Liberal Unionist in 1900.- References :... |
Sutherland Sutherland (UK Parliament constituency) Sutherland was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It represented essentially the traditional county of Sutherland, electing one Member of Parliament... |
Liberal/Crofter |
| 1892 United Kingdom general election, 1892 The 1892 United Kingdom general election was held from 4 July to 26 July 1892. It saw the Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury, win the greatest number of seats, but not enough for an overall majority as William Ewart Gladstone's Liberals won many more seats than in the 1886 general election... |
John Burns John Burns John Elliot Burns was an English trade unionist and politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly associated with London politics. He was a socialist and then a Liberal Member of Parliament and Minister. He was anti-alcohol and a keen sportsman... |
Battersea Battersea (UK Parliament constituency) Battersea is a parliamentary constituency located in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, to which it elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post voting system.- Boundaries :The... |
Independent Labour |
| Keir Hardie Keir Hardie James Keir Hardie, Sr. , was a Scottish socialist and labour leader, and was the first Independent Labour Member of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom... |
West Ham South West Ham South (UK Parliament constituency) West Ham South was a parliamentary constituency in the County Borough of West Ham, in what was then Essex but is now Greater London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.- History... |
Independent Labour | |
| Joseph Havelock Wilson Joseph Havelock Wilson Joseph Havelock Wilson was a trade union leader, Liberal Party politician, and campaigner for the rights of merchant seamen.... |
Middlesbrough Middlesbrough (UK Parliament constituency) Middlesbrough is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- Boundaries :... |
Independent Labour | |
| Edward William Watkin | Hythe Hythe (UK Parliament constituency) Hythe was a constituency centred on the town of Hythe in Kent. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons until 1832, when its representation was reduced to one member... |
Independent Liberal | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
| 1888 (b) | William Pritchard Morgan William Pritchard Morgan William Pritchard Morgan was a Welsh solicitor, mine owner, and company promoter. He acquired the gold mine at Gwynfynydd in 1887, earning the name "Welsh gold king". He was also actively publicised as an investor in Sichuan, China.... |
Merthyr Tydfil | Independent Liberal |
| 1886 United Kingdom general election, 1886 -Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the UK general election, 1886*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**... |
Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) |
| 1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 -Seats summary:-See also:*List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885*Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918*Representation of the People Act 1884*Redistribution of Seats Act 1885-References:... |
Robert Anstruther Sir Robert Anstruther, 5th Baronet Sir Robert Anstruther, 5th Baronet was a Scottish Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1864 and 1886.... |
St Andrews Burghs St Andrews Burghs (UK Parliament constituency) St Andrews Burghs was a district of burghs constituency, representing various burghs of Fife, Scotland, in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, from 1832 to 1918.-Area covered:... |
Independent Liberal |
| John Macdonald Cameron John Macdonald Cameron John Macdonald Cameron was a Scottish chemist and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.... |
Wick Burghs Wick Burghs (UK Parliament constituency) Wick Burghs, sometimes known as Northern Burghs, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918... |
Independent Liberal | |
| George Campbell George Campbell (1824-1892) Sir George Campbell was educated at Hamilton Academy and was a Scottish Liberal Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy Burghs from 1875 to 1892.... |
Kirkcaldy Burghs Kirkcaldy Burghs (UK Parliament constituency) Kirkcaldy Burghs was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1974. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post voting system... |
Independent Liberal | |
| Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare | Camborne Camborne (UK Parliament constituency) Camborne was a county constituency in Cornwall which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom... |
Independent Liberal/Radical | |
| Joseph Cowen Joseph Cowen Joseph Cowen, Jr., , English politician and journalist, son of Sir Joseph Cowen, a prominent citizen and Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne from 1865 to 1873, was born at Stella Hall, Blaydon... |
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK Parliament constituency) Newcastle-upon-Tyne was a borough constituency in the county of Northumberland of the House of Commons of England to 1706 then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918... |
Independent Liberal | |
| William John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam | Peterborough Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency) Peterborough is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, formally styled The Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past... |
Independent Liberal | |
| George Joachim Goschen | Edinburgh East Edinburgh East (UK Parliament constituency) Edinburgh East is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.... |
Independent Liberal | |
| George Harrison | Edinburgh South Edinburgh South (UK Parliament constituency) Edinburgh South is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, first used in the general election of 1885. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election... |
Independent Liberal | |
| Charles Stuart Parker Charles Stuart Parker Charles Stuart Parker was a British academic, writer and Liberal politician.Parker was the eldest son of the Charles Stuart Parker, merchant, of Aigburth, Liverpool, and Fairlie, Ayrshire, and his wife Anne Sandbach. He was educated at Eton and at University College, Oxford. After obtaining a... |
Perth Perth (UK Parliament constituency) Perth was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918, 1918 to 1950, and 1997 to 2005. From 1832 to 1918 it was a burgh constituency. From 1918 to 1950, and 1997 to 2005, it was a county constituency... |
Independent Liberal | |
| Edward William Watkin | Hythe | Independent Liberal | |
| John Wilson John Wilson (Edinburgh MP) John Wilson was a politician in Scotland. He was Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Central from 1885 to 1886, having been elected as an "Independent Liberal".- External links :... |
Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Central (UK Parliament constituency) Edinburgh Central was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.... |
Independent Liberal | |
| Gavin Brown Clark | Caithness | Independent Liberal / Crofter | |
| Charles Fraser-Mackintosh Charles Fraser-Mackintosh Charles Fraser-Mackintosh was a Scottish lawyer, land developer, author and Liberal and Crofters Party politician. He was a significant champion of the Scottish Gaelic language in Victorian Britain.Fraser-Mackintosh was the son of Alexander Fraser, of Dochnalurg, Inverness and his wife Marjory... |
Inverness-shire Inverness-shire (UK Parliament constituency) Inverness-shire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1918.... |
Independent Liberal / Crofter | |
| Roderick MacDonald Roderick Macdonald (politician) Roderick Macdonald, MD, FRCS was a Scottish doctor and a Crofters Party politician. As a coroner he presided over the inquest of one of the victims in the Whitechapel murders.... |
Ross and Cromarty Ross and Cromarty (UK Parliament constituency) Ross and Cromarty was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1983. The constituency elected one Member of Parliament using the first-past-the-post voting system.... |
Independent Liberal / Crofter | |
| Donald Horne Macfarlane Donald Horne Macfarlane Sir Donald Horne Macfarlane was a Sottish merchant who entered politics and became a Member of Parliament , firstly as a Home Rule League MP in Ireland and then as Liberal and Crofters Party MP in Scotland.... |
Argyll | Independent Liberal / Crofter | |
| William Abraham William Abraham (Welsh politician) William "Mabon" Abraham was a Welsh trade unionist and Labour politician, and a Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1920. Although an MP for 35 years, it was as a trade unionist that Abraham is most well known... |
Rhondda Rhondda (UK Parliament constituency) Rhondda is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election... |
Independent Lib-Lab | |
| Thomas Power O'Connor | Liverpool Scotland | Nationalist Party (Ireland) | |
| 1875 (b) | Edward Kenealy | Stoke | Independent |
| 1847 United Kingdom general election, 1847 -Seats summary:-References:* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *... |
Feargus O'Connor Feargus O'Connor Feargus Edward O'Connor was an Irish Chartist leader and advocate of the Land Plan.- Background :Feargus O'Connor was born into a prominent Irish Protestant family, the son of Irish Nationalist politician Roger O'Connor... |
Nottingham Nottingham (UK Parliament constituency) Nottingham was a parliamentary borough in Nottinghamshire, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1295. In 1885 the constituency was abolished and the city of Nottingham divided into three single-member constituencies.... |
Chartist Chartism Chartism was a movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century, between 1838 and 1859. It takes its name from the People's Charter of 1838. Chartism was possibly the first mass working class labour movement in the world... |
Northern Irish MPs
MPs from the Democratic Unionist PartyDemocratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...
, Nationalist Party
Nationalist Party (Ireland)
The Nationalist Party was a term commonly used to describe a number of parliamentary political parties and constituency organisations supportive of Home Rule for Ireland from 1874 to 1922...
, Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...
, Social Democratic and Labour Party
Social Democratic and Labour Party
The Social Democratic and Labour Party is a social-democratic, Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. Its basic party platform advocates Irish reunification, and the further devolution of powers while Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom...
or Ulster Unionist Party
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
, including those Ulster Unionists who stood as part of the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
, are excluded, as are those identified as Nationalist Party
Nationalist Party (Ireland)
The Nationalist Party was a term commonly used to describe a number of parliamentary political parties and constituency organisations supportive of Home Rule for Ireland from 1874 to 1922...
MPs. While these four are all currently regarded as major parties, it should be remembered that each of these parties has at times held only a single seat, and for many years Sinn Féin was a banned organisation and did not contest elections.
| Election | Member of Parliament | Constituency | Party/Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Naomi Long | Belfast East Belfast East (UK Parliament constituency) Belfast East is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Naomi Long of the Alliance Party, elected in 2010... |
Alliance Alliance Party of Northern Ireland The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland is a liberal and nonsectarian political party in Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's fifth-largest party overall, with eight seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly and one in the House of Commons.... |
| Sylvia Hermon Sylvia Hermon Sylvia Eileen Hermon, Lady Hermon is a Northern Irish politician. Since 2001, she has been the Member of Parliament for the constituency of North Down, first elected for the Ulster Unionist Party , but now an independent... |
North Down North Down (UK Parliament constituency) North Down is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Sylvia Hermon, elected as an Independent in the 2010 General Election. -Boundaries:The county constituency was first created in 1885 from the northern part of Down... |
Independent Unionist | |
| 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general... |
Robert McCartney Robert McCartney (politician) Robert Law McCartney QC is a Northern Ireland barrister and former leader of the UK Unionist Party.He was initially a member of the Ulster Unionist Party but was expelled in June 1987 when he refused to withdraw from the general election of that year... |
North Down North Down (UK Parliament constituency) North Down is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Sylvia Hermon, elected as an Independent in the 2010 General Election. -Boundaries:The county constituency was first created in 1885 from the northern part of Down... |
UK Unionist Party UK Unionist Party The UK Unionist Party was a small unionist political party operating in Northern Ireland from 1995 to 2008. It was nominally formed by Robert McCartney, formerly of the Ulster Unionist Party, to contest a by-election the North Down by-election, 1995 and then further constituted to contest the 1996... |
| 1995 (b) North Down by-election, 1995 The North Down by-election, in the North Down constituency, was held on 15 June 1995, following the death of James Kilfedder, who had represented the constituency since the 1970 general election... |
Robert McCartney | North Down | UK Unionist Party |
| 1992 United Kingdom general election, 1992 The United Kingdom general election of 1992 was held on 9 April 1992, and was the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party. This election result was one of the biggest surprises in 20th Century politics, as polling leading up to the day of the election showed Labour under leader Neil... |
James Kilfedder James Kilfedder Sir James Alexander Kilfedder was a Northern Ireland unionist politician.-Early life:... 1 |
North Down | Ulster Popular Unionist Party Ulster Popular Unionist Party The Ulster Popular Unionist Party was a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1980 by James Kilfedder, independent Unionist Member of Parliament for North Down, who led the party until his death in 1995.... |
| 1987 United Kingdom general election, 1987 The United Kingdom general election of 1987 was held on 11 June 1987, to elect 650 members to the British House of Commons. The election was the third consecutive election victory for the Conservative Party under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, who became the first Prime Minister since the 2nd... |
James Kilfedder 1 | North Down | Ulster Popular Unionist Party |
| 1986 (b) | James Kilfedder 1 | North Down | Ulster Popular Unionist Party |
| 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945... |
James Kilfedder 1 | North Down | Ulster Popular Unionist Party |
| 1981 (b) | Owen Carron Owen Carron Owen Gerard Carron is an Irish republican activist and who was Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 1981 to 1983.Carron is the nephew of former Nationalist Party politician John Carron.... 2 |
Fermanagh and South Tyrone Fermanagh and South Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency) Fermanagh and South Tyrone is a Parliamentary constituency in the British House of Commons. The current MP for the constituency is Michelle Gildernew of Sinn Féin.... |
Anti H-Block Anti H-Block Anti H-Block was the political label used in 1981 by supporters of the Irish republican hunger strike who were standing for election in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland... |
| 1981 (b) | Bobby Sands Bobby Sands Robert Gerard "Bobby" Sands was an Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and member of the United Kingdom Parliament who died on hunger strike while imprisoned in HM Prison Maze.... 3 |
Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Anti H-Block |
| 1979 United Kingdom general election, 1979 The United Kingdom general election of 1979 was held on 3 May 1979 to elect 635 members to the British House of Commons. The Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher ousted the incumbent Labour government of James Callaghan with a parliamentary majority of 43 seats... |
Frank Maguire Frank Maguire Meredith Francis Maguire was an Independent Republican Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.- Early Life :... 4 |
Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Independent Republican Independent Republican (Ireland) Independent Republican was a political title frequently used by Irish republicans when contesting elections in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland since the 1920s.... |
| James Kilfedder 1 | North Down | Independent Ulster Unionist | |
| John Dunlop John Dunlop (Northern Ireland politician) John Dunlop was a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland.He was Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster from 1974 to 1983. Initially elected as a member of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, from 1976 he represented the short-lived breakaway United Ulster Unionist Party.- External links :... 5 |
Mid Ulster Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency) Mid Ulster is a Parliamentary Constituency in the British House of Commons.-Boundaries:The constituency was created in 1950 when the old two-seat constituency of Fermanagh and Tyrone was abolished as part of the final move to single member seats... |
United Ulster Unionist Party United Ulster Unionist Party The United Ulster Unionist Party was a unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between 1975 and 1984.It emerged from a division in the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party in the late 1970s... |
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| Oct 1974 United Kingdom general election, October 1974 The United Kingdom general election of October 1974 took place on 10 October 1974 to elect 635 members to the British House of Commons. It was the second general election of that year and resulted in the Labour Party led by Harold Wilson, winning by a tiny majority of 3 seats.The election of... |
Frank Maguire 4 | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Independent Republican |
| Robert Bradford Robert Bradford (NI politician) Robert Jonathan Bradford MP was a Vanguard Unionist and Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for the Belfast South constituency in Northern Ireland until he was killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 14 November 1981.... 6 |
Belfast South Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency) Belfast South is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.-Boundaries:The seat was created in 1922 when, as part of the establishment of the devolved Stormont Parliament for Northern Ireland, the number of MPs in the Westminster Parliament was drastically cut... |
Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party The Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party , informally known as Ulster Vanguard, was a unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between 1973 and 1978... |
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| William Craig 6 | Belfast East Belfast East (UK Parliament constituency) Belfast East is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Naomi Long of the Alliance Party, elected in 2010... |
Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party | |
| John Dunlop 5 | Mid Ulster | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party | |
| Feb 1974 United Kingdom general election, February 1974 The United Kingdom's general election of February 1974 was held on the 28th of that month. It was the first of two United Kingdom general elections held that year, and the first election since the Second World War not to produce an overall majority in the House of Commons for the winning party,... |
Robert Bradford 6 | Belfast South | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party |
| William Craig 6 | Belfast East | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party | |
| John Dunlop 5 | Mid Ulster | Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party | |
| 1970 United Kingdom general election, 1970 The United Kingdom general election of 1970 was held on 18 June 1970, and resulted in a surprise victory for the Conservative Party under leader Edward Heath, who defeated the Labour Party under Harold Wilson. The election also saw the Liberal Party and its new leader Jeremy Thorpe lose half their... |
Ian Paisley Ian Paisley Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, PC is a politician and church minister in Northern Ireland. As the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party , he and Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness were elected First Minister and deputy First Minister respectively on 8 May 2007.In addition to co-founding... 7 |
North Antrim North Antrim (UK Parliament constituency) North Antrim is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. Its current member is Ian Paisley Jr.-Boundaries:North Antrim has always been a county constituency comprising the northern part of County Antrim in the north-east of Northern Ireland... |
Protestant Unionist Party Protestant Unionist Party The Protestant Unionist Party was a unionist political party operating in Northern Ireland from 1966 to 1971. It was set up by Ian Paisley, and was the forerunner of the modern Democratic Unionist Party and emerged from the Ulster Protestant Action movement.The UPA had two councillors elected,... |
| Gerry Fitt Gerry Fitt Gerard Fitt, Baron Fitt was a politician in Northern Ireland. He was a founder and the first leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party , a social democratic and Irish nationalist party.-Early years:... 8 |
Belfast West Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency) Belfast West is a parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.-Boundaries:The seat was restored in 1922 when as part of the establishment of the devolved Stormont Parliament for Northern Ireland, the number of MPs in the Westminster Parliament was drastically cut... |
Republican Labour Party Republican Labour Party The Republican Labour Party was a political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1964, with two MPs at Stormont, Harry Diamond and Gerry Fitt... |
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| Bernadette Devlin | Mid Ulster | Unity Unity (Northern Ireland) "Unity" was the political label for a series of electoral pacts by Irish nationalist and Irish Republican candidates in Northern Ireland elections in the late 1960s and early 1970s... |
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| Frank McManus Frank McManus (Irish politician) Frank McManus is an Irish nationalist activist and former Member of the British House of Commons.Born in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh,he is a brother of Father Seán McManus, the Irish-American lobbyist and Catholic priest, and Pat McManus, a member of the IRA killed in an explosion in 1958.He... |
Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Unity | |
| 1969 (b) Mid Ulster by-election, 1969 The Mid Ulster by-election was held on 17 April 1969, following the death of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster, George Forrest. The two-way contest was unusual in featuring two women candidates.... |
Bernadette Devlin | Mid Ulster | Opposition Unity |
| 1966 United Kingdom general election, 1966 The 1966 United Kingdom general election on 31 March 1966 was called by sitting Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Wilson's decision to call an election turned on the fact that his government, elected a mere 17 months previously in 1964 had an unworkably small majority of only 4 MPs... |
Gerry Fitt 8 | Belfast West | Republican Labour Party |
| 1956 (b) Mid Ulster by-election, 1956 The by-election held in Mid Ulster on 8 May 1956 was called because both candidates in the Mid Ulster by-election, 1955 were disqualified. Tom Mitchell was disqualified from assuming office because he was a convicted felon. Charles Beattie was awarded the seat but he was also disqualified because... |
George Forrest George Forrest (politician) George Forrest was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland who served as MP for Mid Ulster from 1956 until his death... |
Mid Ulster | Independent Unionist Independent Unionist See also Independent .Independent Unionist has been a label sometimes used by candidates in elections in the United Kingdom, indicating a support for Unionism, retaining the unity of the British state.... |
| 1951 United Kingdom general election, 1951 The 1951 United Kingdom general election was held eighteen months after the 1950 general election, which the Labour Party had won with a slim majority of just five seats... |
Michael O'Neill Michael O'Neill (politician) Michael O'Neill was an Irish politician in the United Kingdom.O'Neill was educated at Dromore National School and Bellisle Academy. He was a farmer and a chairman of the Gaelic Athletic Association... |
Mid Ulster | Independent Nationalist Independent Nationalist Independent Nationalist was a political title frequently used by Irish nationalists when contesting elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland not as members of the Irish Parliamentary Party, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.In the... |
| Jack Beattie Jack Beattie Jack Beattie was a politician from Northern Ireland.He was a teacher by profession. He joined the Northern Ireland Labour Party . In 1925, he became a Member of the Northern Ireland House of Commons for Belfast East. He represented Belfast Pottinger from 1929... |
Belfast West | Irish Labour Party | |
| 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 The United Kingdom general election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. The results were counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to... |
Jack Beattie | Belfast West | Independent Labour |
| James Little 9 | Down Down (UK Parliament constituency) Down was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland. It was a two member constituency and existed in two periods, 1801-1885 and 1922-1950.-Boundaries:1801-1885: The whole of County Down, excluding the Boroughs of Downpatrick and Newry.... |
Independent Unionist | |
| 1943 (b) Belfast West by-election, 1943 The Belfast West by-election 1943, was a by-election held on 9 February 1943 for the British House of Commons constituency of Belfast West, in Northern Ireland... |
Jack Beattie | Belfast West | Northern Ireland Labour Party Northern Ireland Labour Party The Northern Ireland Labour Party was an Irish political party which operated from 1924 until 1987.In 1913 the British Labour Party resolved to give the recently formed Irish Labour Party exclusive organising rights in Ireland... |
| 1919 (b) | George Boyle Hanna | East Antrim East Antrim (UK Parliament constituency) East Antrim is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. It has voted for Unionist candidates since its re-creation in 1983.-Boundaries:... |
Independent Unionist |
= by-election
By-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
Irish MPs
All MPs are listed except those from the Ulster Unionist PartyUlster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...
(affiliated to the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
during this period), the Nationalist Party
Nationalist Party (Ireland)
The Nationalist Party was a term commonly used to describe a number of parliamentary political parties and constituency organisations supportive of Home Rule for Ireland from 1874 to 1922...
, Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...
, the Liberal Party
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
, the Liberal Unionist Party and the Home Rule candidates.
| Election | Member of Parliament | Constituency | Party/Description |
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| 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 The United Kingdom general election of 1918 was the first to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918, which meant it was the first United Kingdom general election in which nearly all adult men and some women could vote. Polling was held on 14 December 1918, although the count did... |
Robert Henry Woods Robert Henry Woods Sir Robert Henry Woods was an Irish Independent Unionist Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom Parliament. He was born at Tullamore. He was knighted in 1913.... |
Dublin University | Independent Unionist |
| Thomas Henry Burn Thomas Henry Burn Thomas Henry Burn was an Ulster Unionist member of the UK Parliament and the Parliament of Northern Ireland. He represented Belfast St Anne's in the former from 1918–1922, and Belfast West in the latter from 1921-1929.... |
Belfast St Anne's Belfast St Anne's (UK Parliament constituency) St Anne's, a division of Belfast, was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1922.-Boundaries and boundary changes:... |
Labour Unionist | |
| Samuel McGuffin Samuel McGuffin Samuel McGuffin was Labour Unionist MP for Belfast Shankill from 1918 to 1922, and Ulster Unionist MP for Belfast North from 1921 to 1925.... |
Belfast Shankill Belfast Shankill (UK Parliament constituency) Shankill, a division of Belfast, was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom to 1918 to 1922.-Boundaries and Boundary Changes:... |
Labour Unionist | |
| Thompson Donald Thompson Donald Thompson Donald was a Northern Irish Unionist politician.Donald was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in the 1918 general election for the Belfast Victoria constituency and served as MP until the constituency's abolition in 1922. Donald was elected as one of the so-called... |
Belfast Victoria Belfast Victoria (UK Parliament constituency) Victoria, a division of Belfast, was a UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1922.-Boundaries and Boundary Changes:... |
Labour Unionist | |
| 1914 (b) | Edward John Graham | Tullamore | Independent Nationalist |
| 1914 (b) | William O'Brien William O'Brien William O'Brien was an Irish nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher, author and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland... |
Cork City Cork City (UK Parliament constituency) Cork City was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1880 to 1922 it returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland... |
All-for-Ireland League All-for-Ireland League The All-for-Ireland League , was an Irish, Munster-based political party . Founded by William O'Brien MP, it generated a new national movement to achieve agreement between the different parties concerned on the historically difficult aim of Home Rule for the whole of Ireland... |
| 1913 (b) | John Guiney | North Cork North Cork (UK Parliament constituency) North Cork , a division of County Cork, was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1885 to 1922 it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.Until the 1885 general... |
All-for-Ireland League |
| 1911 (b) | Timothy Michael Healy Timothy Michael Healy Timothy Michael Healy, KC , also known as Tim Healy, was an Irish nationalist politician, journalist, author, barrister and one of the most controversial Irish Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland... |
North East Cork | All-for-Ireland League |
| Dec 1910 | William O'Brien | Cork City | All-for-Ireland League |
| Maurice Healy Maurice Healy Maurice Healy was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer and Member of Parliament . As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was returned to in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland four times between 1885 and 1918.He was one of twins, the third son born... |
Cork City | All-for-Ireland League | |
| Daniel Desmond Sheehan | Mid Cork Mid Cork (UK Parliament constituency) Mid Cork , a division of County Cork, was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1885 to 1922 it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.Until the 1885 general election... |
All-for-Ireland League | |
| Patrick Guiney Patrick Guiney Patrick Guiney was an Irish Nationalist politician and a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.... |
North Cork | All-for-Ireland League | |
| Moreton Frewen Moreton Frewen Moreton Frewen was an Anglo-Irish writer on monetary reform who served briefly as a Member of Parliament .-Life:... |
North East Cork | All-for-Ireland League | |
| John Walsh John P. Walsh John P. Walsh was a prominent Irish businessman, and a nationalist politician of the All-for-Ireland League. He was Member of Parliament for County Cork South from 1910 until 1918, taking his seat in the House of Commons of what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.Born in... |
South Cork South Cork (UK Parliament constituency) South Cork, formally known as the Southern division of County Cork , was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom... |
All-for-Ireland League | |
| Eugene Crean Eugene Crean Eugene Crean was an Irish nationalist politician and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and member of the Irish Parliamentary Party 1892–1910, for the All-for Ireland Party 1910–1918.... |
South East Cork | All-for-Ireland League | |
| James Gilhooly James Gilhooly James Gilhooly was an Irish nationalist politician and MP. in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, from 1910 the All-for Ireland Party, who represented his constituency from 1885 for 30 years until his death, retaining... |
West Cork West Cork (UK Parliament constituency) East Cork, a division of County Cork, was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1885 to 1922 it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.Until the 1885 general election... |
All-for-Ireland League | |
| John McKean | South Monaghan South Monaghan (UK Parliament constituency) South Monaghan was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, from 1885 to 1922.... |
Independent Nationalist | |
| Laurence Ginnell Laurence Ginnell Laurence Ginnell was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer and Member of Parliament of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party for Westmeath North at the 1906 UK general election, from 1910 he sat as an Independent... |
North Westmeath North Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency) North Westmeath was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885–1918.Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1885 and after the dissolution of Parliament in 1918 the area was part of the Westmeath constituency.... |
Independent Nationalist | |
| 1910 (b) | Maurice Healy | North East Cork | All-for-Ireland League |
| Jan 1910 | William O'Brien | Cork City | All-for-Ireland League |
| Daniel Desmond Sheehan | Mid Cork | All-for-Ireland League | |
| Patrick Guiney | North Cork | All-for-Ireland League | |
| William O'Brien | North East Cork | All-for-Ireland League | |
| Eugene Crean | South East Cork | All-for-Ireland League | |
| James Gilhooly | West Cork | All-for-Ireland League | |
| Timothy Michael Healy | North Louth North Louth (UK Parliament constituency) North Louth was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1918... |
All-for-Ireland League | |
| John O'Donnell John O'Donnell (politician) John O’Donnell was an Irish journalist, Nationalist politician and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1900 to 1910.... |
South Mayo South Mayo (UK Parliament constituency) South Mayo was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1922.... |
All-for-Ireland League | |
| Eugene O'Sullivan Eugene O'Sullivan (Irish politician) Eugene O'Sullivan was an Irish nationalist politician and farmer, who was elected Member of Parliament for East Kerry in January 1910, but was unseated on petition shortly afterwards.... |
East Kerry | Independent Nationalist | |
| John McKean | South Monaghan | Independent Nationalist | |
| Laurence Ginnell | North Westmeath | Independent Nationalist | |
| 1909 (b) | Maurice Healy | Cork City | Independent Nationalist |
| 1906 (b) | D. D. Sheehan D. D. Sheehan Daniel Desmond Sheehan, usually known as D. D. Sheehan was an Irish nationalist, politician, labour leader, journalist, barrister and author... |
Mid Cork | Independent Labour |
| 1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 -Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1906*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:***-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**... |
William O'Brien | Cork City | Independent Nationalist |
| Timothy Michael Healy | North Louth | Independent Nationalist | |
| Thomas Henry Sloan | Belfast South Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency) Belfast South is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.-Boundaries:The seat was created in 1922 when, as part of the establishment of the devolved Stormont Parliament for Northern Ireland, the number of MPs in the Westminster Parliament was drastically cut... |
Independent Unionist | |
| 1904 (b) | William O'Brien | Cork City | Independent Nationalist |
| 1903 (b) | Edward Mitchell Edward Mitchell (politician) Edward Mitchell was an Irish Russellite Unionist politician.Mitchell was elected at the as Member of Parliament for North Fermanagh at a by-election on 20 March 1903 after the resignation of the Unionist MP Edward Archdale. At the next general election, in January 1906 the Russellites did not... |
North Fermanagh North Fermanagh (UK Parliament constituency) North Fermanagh was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland.-Boundaries and Boundary Changes:This county constituency comprised the northern part of County Fermanagh.It returned one Member of Parliament 1885–1922.... |
Independent |
| 1902 (b) | Thomas Henry Sloan | Belfast South | Independent Unionist |
| 1902 (b) | James Wood | Down East | Independent |
| 1900 United Kingdom general election, 1900 -Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1900*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:***-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**... |
John Campbell John Campbell (Irish politician) John Campbell was the Member of Parliament for South Armagh from 9 October 1900 - 1906.-References:... |
South Armagh South Armagh (UK Parliament constituency) South Armagh was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland.-Boundaries and boundary changes:This constituency comprised the southern part of County Armagh.... |
Independent Nationalist |
| Timothy Michael Healy | North Louth | Independent Nationalist | |
| Joseph Nolan Joseph Nolan Joseph Nolan was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he represented North Louth from 1885–92, and South Louth from 1900-18... |
South Louth South Louth (UK Parliament constituency) South Louth was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1918... |
Independent Nationalist | |
| James Laurence Carew James Laurence Carew James Laurence Carew was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom... |
South Meath South Meath (UK Parliament constituency) South Meath was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885–1922.Prior to the 1885 general election the area was part of the Meath . From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.... |
Independent Nationalist | |
| Patrick James Kennedy | North Westmeath | Independent Nationalist | |
| 1875 (b) | John Mitchel John Mitchel John Mitchel was an Irish nationalist activist, solicitor and political journalist. Born in Camnish, near Dungiven, County Londonderry, Ireland he became a leading member of both Young Ireland and the Irish Confederation... |
Tipperary Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency) Tipperary, also known as Tipperary County, was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.-Boundaries:... |
Independent Nationalist |
| 1875 (b) | John Mitchel | Tipperary | Independent Nationalist |
| 1871 (b) | John Martin | Meath Meath (UK Parliament constituency) Meath was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.-Members of Parliament:-References:... |
Independent Nationalist |
| 1869 (b) | Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa , was an Irish Fenian leader and prominent member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. His life as an Irish Fenian is well documented but he is perhaps known best in death for the graveside oration given at his funeral by Pádraig Pearse.-Life in Ireland:He was born at... |
Tipperary | Independent Nationalist |
| 1857 | John James Ennis Sir John Ennis, 2nd Baronet Sir John James Ennis, 2nd Baronet was an Irish Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1868 and 1884.... |
Athlone Athlone (UK Parliament constituency) Athlone was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.-Boundaries:... |
Independent Opposition |
| John Francis Maguire John Francis Maguire John Francis Maguire was an Irish politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Dungarvan in 1852, and resigned on 20 April 1852 through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. He was subsequently an MP for Cork City, serving between 1865 and his death in 1872.- External links :*... |
Dungarvan Dungarvan (UK Parliament constituency) Dungarvan was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.... |
Independent Opposition | |
| Michael Sullivan | Kilkenny City Kilkenny City (UK Parliament constituency) Kilkenny City was an Irish Borough constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament... |
Independent Opposition | |
| Waterford City Waterford City (UK Parliament constituency) Waterford City was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland.-Boundaries and boundary changes:This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Waterford in County Waterford.It returned one MP 1801–1832, two MPs 1832–1885 and one 1885–1922... |
Independent Opposition | ||
| Francis Macnamara Calcutt | Clare Clare (UK Parliament constituency) Clare was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1801 to 1885 it returned two Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.... |
Independent Opposition | |
| County Kilkenny | Independent Opposition | ||
| County Leitrim | Independent Opposition | ||
| George Henry Moore George Henry Moore George Henry Moore was an Irish politician who served as Member of Parliament for Mayo in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was one of the founders of the Catholic Defence Association and a leader of the Independent Irish Party. He was also father of the writer George A. Moore and the... |
Mayo Mayo (UK Parliament constituency) Mayo was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885.-History :... |
Independent Opposition | |
| Edward McEvoy | Meath | Independent Opposition | |
| Matthew Elias Corbally | Meath | Independent Opposition | |
| Tipperary | Independent Opposition | ||
| Richard Levinge | Westmeath Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency) Westmeath is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament 1801–1885 and one in 1918–1922.-Boundaries:This constituency comprised the whole of County Westmeath, except for the Parliamentary borough of Athlone 1801–1885.... |
Independent Opposition | |
| County Wexford | Independent Opposition | ||
| 1855 (b) | Edward McEvoy | Meath | Independent Opposition |
| 1853 (b) | John Francis Maguire | Dungarvan | Independent Opposition |
| 1853 (b) | Cornelius O'Brien Cornelius O'Brien (County Clare) Sir Cornelius O'Brien was an Irish politician.He built a tower, now referred to as O'Brien's Tower on the Cliffs of Moher in 1835 as an observation tower for the hundreds of tourists that frequented the cliffs during the time... |
Clare | Independent Opposition |
| 1847 | Thomas Chisholm Anstey Thomas Chisholm Anstey Thomas Chisholm Anstey was an English lawyer and one of the first Catholic parliamentarians in the nineteenth century. He also wrote pamphlets on legal and political topics, particularly those relevant to Roman Catholics.Anstey favoured the repeal of the Union both with Ireland and Scotland... |
Youghal Youghal (UK Parliament constituency) Youghal was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.-Boundaries:... |
Irish Confederate |
| William Smith O'Brien William Smith O'Brien William Smith O'Brien was an Irish Nationalist and Member of Parliament and leader of the Young Ireland movement. He was convicted of sedition for his part in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, but his sentence of death was commuted to deportation to Van Diemen's Land. In 1854, he was... |
County Limerick | Irish Confederate |
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