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| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||||
| Term | 8 October 1959 (1959-10-08) – 9 October 1964 (1964-10-09) | ||||
| Election | 1959 United Kingdom general election | ||||
| Government | Second Macmillan ministry Douglas-Home ministry | ||||
| House of Commons | |||||
| Members | 630 | ||||
| Speaker | Harry Hylton-Foster | ||||
| Leader | R. A. Butler Iain Macleod Selwyn Lloyd | ||||
| Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home | ||||
| Leader of the Opposition | Hugh Gaitskell George Brown Harold Wilson | ||||
| Third-party leader | Jo Grimond | ||||
| House of Lords | |||||
| Lord Chancellor | Viscount Kilmuir Baron Dilhorne | ||||
This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1959 general election, held on 8 October 1959.
Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included Margaret Thatcher, Nicholas Ridley, Jim Prior, Peter Tapsell, John Morris and Jeremy Thorpe. It was also the final election in which Winston Churchill, then aged 84, stood as a candidate. Tapsell retired from Parliament 56 years later, at the 2015 general election.
Composition
These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties at the 1959 general election.
Note: This is not the official seating plan of the House of Commons, which has five rows of benches on each side, with the government party to the right of the speaker and opposition parties to the left, but with room for only around two-thirds of MPs to sit at any one time.
| Affiliation | Members | |
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| Conservative Party | 365 | |
| Labour Party | 258 | |
| Liberal Party | 6 | |
| Independent Conservative | 1 | |
| Total | 630 | |
| Effective government majority | 49 | |
By-elections
See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.
By nation
- List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1959–1964)
- List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (1959–1964)
See also
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