List of MPs elected in the 2017 United Kingdom general election
The fifty-seventh Parliament of the United Kingdom was the legislature following the 2017 general election of Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Parliament consists of the House of Lords and the elected House of Commons. Each of Parliament's 650 constituencies returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons.[1] In the 2017 general election a record number of women (208) were elected as MPs.[2]
Fifty-seventh Parliament of the United Kingdom | |||||
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Overview | |||||
Legislative body | Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||||
Meeting place | Palace of Westminster | ||||
Term | 21 June 2017 – 6 November 2019 | ||||
Election | 2017 United Kingdom general election | ||||
Government | First Johnson ministry from 24 July 2019 —Second May ministry – until 24 July 2019 | ||||
House of Commons | |||||
Members | 650 | ||||
Speaker | John Bercow until 4 November 2019 Sir Lindsay Hoyle from 4 November 2019 | ||||
Leader | Andrea Leadsom until 22 May 2019 Mel Stride from 23 May 2019 Jacob Rees-Mogg from 24 July 2019 | ||||
Prime Minister | Theresa May (Conservative Party) until 24 July 2019 Boris Johnson (Conservative Party) from 24 July 2019 | ||||
Leader of the Opposition | Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party) | ||||
Third-party leader | Ian Blackford (Scottish National Party) | ||||
House of Lords | |||||
Members | 776 | ||||
Lord Speaker | The Lord Fowler | ||||
Leader | The Baroness Evans of Bowes Park | ||||
Leader of the Opposition | The Baroness Smith of Basildon | ||||
Crown-in-Parliament Queen Elizabeth II | |||||
Sessions | |||||
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The State Opening of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster by Queen Elizabeth II was on 21 June 2017. The subsequent parliamentary session was the longest since the formation of the United Kingdom in 1707, and the longest to sit at Westminster since the Long Parliament in the 17th century.[3] The second and last parliamentary session however was the shortest since October 1948,[4] lasting less than a month, from 14 October 2019 until Parliament dissolved at 00:01 on 6 November 2019.[5]
It was marked by unprecedented political turmoil as Governments led by both Theresa May and Boris Johnson were unable to win a series of important votes on the issue of Brexit. This left both Parliament and the Government in a prolonged state of deadlock and unable to move forward on the issue. Consequently, there was an unusually high number of defections and suspensions, including the suspension of 21 Conservative MPs in September 2019; 10 of those suspended MPs re-joined the Conservative Party in October 2019. The Parliament was dissolved after the Government passed the Early Parliamentary General Election Act 2019, which bypassed the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 to bring the next election forward to December 2019 from its original scheduled May 2022 date.
Notable newcomers in this general election included Anneliese Dodds, Douglas Ross, Layla Moran, Laura Pidcock, Anna McMorrin, Wera Hobhouse, Preet Gill, Vicky Ford, Kemi Badenoch, Alister Jack, Emma Little-Pengelly, Luke Pollard, Julia Lopez, Marsha de Cordova, Ben Bradley and Rosie Duffield.
House of Commons composition
Below are graphical representations of the House of Commons showing party strengths directly after the 2017 general election, at important intermediate points, and immediately prior to dissolution. This is not an actual seating plan of the House, which has only five rows of benches on each side, with the government party to the right of the Speaker of the House of Commons and opposition parties to the left, but with room for only around two-thirds of MPs to sit at any one time.
This table shows the number of MPs in each party:
Affiliation | Members[6] | |||
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At 2017 election | At dissolution | Change | ||
The Speaker | 1 | 1 | ||
Registered parliamentary parties | ||||
Conservative – Gov | 317 | 298 | ||
Labour – Opp | 262 | 242 | ||
SNP | 35 | 35 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 12 | 20 | ||
DUP – C&S | 10 | 10 | ||
Sinn Féin | 7 | 7 | ||
Change UK | N/A | 5 | ||
Plaid Cymru | 4 | 4 | ||
Green | 1 | 1 | ||
Others | ||||
Independent | 1 | 21 | ||
The Independents | N/A | 2 | ||
BSJP | N/A | 1 | ||
Suspended | N/A | 1 | ||
Vacant | N/A | 2 | ||
Total | 650 | |||
Voting total | 639 | 637 | ||
Safe majority | 320 | 319 | ||
Gov short by | 4 | 22 | ||
Gov + C&S total | 326 | 307 | ||
Gov + C&S majority | 13 | -23 |
- Notes
- For full details of changes during the 57th Parliament, see Defections and suspensions and By-elections.
- Labour, as the largest party not in government, took the role of Official Opposition (OO). The Co-operative Party was represented in the House of Commons by Labour MPs sitting with the Labour and Co-operative designation.[7]
- "Members elected" refers to the composition resulting from the election on 8 June 2017, but note that the confidence and supply arrangement (C&S) was only reached on 26 June.
- The "voting total" is the effective size of the House excluding vacancies, suspensions, and certain members (ten at dissolution): the Speaker, two (usually three) Deputy Speakers (one Labour and one Conservative) who had only a tie-breaking vote constrained by conventions,[8] and seven abstentionist members (Sinn Féin). This left relevant party voting totals as follows: Con 297, Lab 241, SF 0, Speaker 0.
- The "safe majority" (the number of seats needed to have a majority of one or two), "Gov short by" (the margin by which the governing Conservatives are short of that majority), and "Gov + C&S total" are based on the voting totals. The government entered into a confidence and supply agreement to secure a small majority, which shrank due to defections, finally disappearing on 3 September 2019. Hence, the "Gov + C&S majority", calculated as the sum of voting Conservative and Democratic Unionist Party members, less the sum of all other voting members, was negative at dissolution.
List of MPs elected in the general election
The following table is a list of MPs elected, ordered by constituency. Names of incumbents are listed where they stood for re-election; for details of other defeated candidates and the incumbent who stood down in those cases see individual constituency articles.
- Notes
- The incumbents for these seats were originally members of political parties before either being suspended or resigning from their respective parties and subsequently sitting as independents for the remainder of the Parliament.
Deputy Speakers
The Speaker nominated Sir David Amess (Conservative, Southend West) and George Howarth (Labour, Knowsley) to serve as Temporary Deputy Speakers until the Deputy Speakers had been elected. The election of Deputy Speakers took place on 28 June 2017.
Although Deputy Speakers do not resign from their parties, they cease to vote (except to break ties) and they do not participate in party-political activity until the next election.
Name | Party | Constituency | Office | |
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Sir Lindsay Hoyle | Labour | Chorley | Chairman of Ways and Means | |
Eleanor Laing | Conservative | Epping Forest | First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means | |
Dame Rosie Winterton | Labour | Doncaster Central | Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means |
As the only contesting member from the government side, Eleanor Laing's name did not appear on the ballot paper, and she was duly declared First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.
When Sir Lindsay Hoyle was elected Speaker on 4 November 2019 in succession to John Bercow, the post of Chairman of Ways and Means (one of the Deputy Speakers) became vacant and remained so when Parliament was dissolved on 6 November.
By-elections
By-elections are held for seats that become vacant.
By-election | Date | Incumbent | Party | Cause | Winner | Party | ||
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West Tyrone | 3 May 2018 | Barry McElduff | Sinn Féin | Resignation after a social media post he made caused controversy regarding perceived sectarianism on the Kingsmill massacre[11] | Órfhlaith Begley | Sinn Féin | ||
Independent | ||||||||
Lewisham East | 14 June 2018 | Heidi Alexander | Labour | Resignation on appointment as Deputy Mayor of London[12] | Janet Daby | Labour | ||
Newport West | 4 April 2019 | Paul Flynn | Labour | Death[13] | Ruth Jones | Labour | ||
Peterborough | 6 June 2019 | Fiona Onasanya | Labour | Removed by recall petition after a conviction of perverting the course of justice.[14] | Lisa Forbes | Labour | ||
Independent | ||||||||
Brecon and Radnorshire | 1 August 2019 | Chris Davies | Conservative | Removed by recall petition after conviction of false expenses claims.[15] | Jane Dodds | Liberal Democrats |
John Mann vacated the seat for Bassetlaw on 28 October 2019, and the Speaker John Bercow vacated his Buckingham seat on 4 November 2019. The seats remained vacant until dissolution and the election of new MPs in the general election on 12 December 2019.
Defections and suspensions
The label under which MPs sit in the House of Commons can change if they leave or are suspended from or expelled by their party. When suspended, they effectively[16] become independents. This Parliament has had an unusually large number of these changes, resulting in the number of MPs sitting as independents rising to its highest level (33) since the Ballot Act 1872 (which introduced secret ballots for elections in the United Kingdom).
The Conservative and Labour parties lost numerous MPs through suspensions and defections to other parties. In February 2019, 8 Labour and 3 Conservative MPs formed a new grouping (later a party in its own right), Change UK. That grouping experienced a split in June, with some of its members resigning to form The Independents. The Liberal Democrats have made a gain of 8 seats since the opening of Parliament, including some former Change UK members. The government lost its majority on 3 September 2019, when the Conservative MP Phillip Lee defected to the Liberal Democrats. Later the same day, the Conservatives expelled 21 of their MPs for voting against the government, 10 of whom were later readmitted to the party on 29 October.
Name | Date | From | To | Constituency | Reason | ||
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Anne Marie Morris | 10 July 2017 | Conservative | Independent | Newton Abbot | Suspended from the Conservatives, pending investigation over using the remark "nigger in the woodpile".[17] | ||
12 December 2017 | Independent | Conservative | Reinstated.[16] | ||||
Jared O'Mara | 25 October 2017 | Labour | Independent | Sheffield Hallam | Suspended from Labour, pending investigation over alleged sexist and homophobic remarks.[18] | ||
3 July 2018 | Independent | Labour | Reinstated.[19] | ||||
12 July 2018 | Labour | Independent | Resigned from Labour.[20] | ||||
Kelvin Hopkins | 2 November 2017 | Labour | Independent | Luton North | Suspended from Labour, pending investigation into sexual allegations.[21] | ||
Charlie Elphicke | 3 November 2017 | Conservative | Independent | Dover | Suspended from the Conservatives, pending police investigation of "serious allegations".[22] | ||
12 December 2018 | Independent | Conservative | Reinstated.[23] | ||||
22 July 2019 | Conservative | Independent | Suspended once again after being charged with sexual assault.[24] | ||||
Ivan Lewis | 23 November 2017 | Labour | Independent | Bury South | Suspended from Labour, pending investigation of sexual harassment.[10] Resigned from Labour on 20 December 2018.[25] | ||
Barry McElduff | 8 January 2018 | Sinn Féin | Independent | West Tyrone | Suspended from Sinn Féin over a social media video referencing the Kingsmill massacre. Resigned from parliament.[26] | ||
John Woodcock | 30 April 2018 | Labour Co-op | Independent | Barrow and Furness | Suspended from Labour over allegations of inappropriate messages to former staff.[27] Resigned from Labour on 18 July 2018.[28] | ||
10 July 2019 | Independent | The Independents | Formed new political grouping. | ||||
Ian Paisley | 24 July 2018 | DUP | Independent | North Antrim | Suspended from DUP for not disclosing financial interests from the Sri Lankan government, and then advocating for them.[29] | ||
4 September 2018 | Independent | Suspended | Suspended from the House of Commons on 24 July for 30 days beginning 4 September.[29] | ||||
21 November 2018 | Suspended | DUP | Reinstated to the House of Commons and the DUP.[30] | ||||
Andrew Griffiths | 21 August 2018 | Conservative | Independent | Burton | Suspended from the Conservatives, pending investigation of inappropriate behaviour with members of staff.[31] | ||
12 December 2018 | Independent | Conservative | Reinstated.[32] | ||||
Frank Field | 30 August 2018 | Labour | Independent | Birkenhead | Resigned from Labour.[33] | ||
2 August 2019 | Independent | Birkenhead Social Justice | Founded new political party to contest the next election. | ||||
Stephen Lloyd | 6 December 2018 | Liberal Democrats | Independent | Eastbourne | Resigned the Liberal Democrats whip over the Brexit withdrawal agreement.[34] | ||
Fiona Onasanya | 19 December 2018 | Labour | Independent | Peterborough | Suspended from Labour after being convicted of perverting the course of justice.[35] Expelled from Labour in January 2019.[36] Removed from office on 1 May 2019 by a recall petition.[37] | ||
Luciana Berger | 18 February 2019 | Labour Co-op | Change UK | Liverpool Wavertree | Resigned from Labour, citing party's approach to Brexit and antisemitism.[38] | ||
4 June 2019 | Change UK | Independent | Left Change UK following in order to "work cross party" and "respond flexibly".[39] | ||||
10 July 2019 | Independent | The Independents | Formed new political grouping. | ||||
5 September 2019 | The Independents | Liberal Democrats | Joined the Liberal Democrats, citing the "moment of national crisis", as the most effective party to stop Brexit.[40] | ||||
Ann Coffey | 18 February 2019 | Labour | Change UK | Stockport | Resigned from Labour, citing party's approach to Brexit and antisemitism.[38] | ||
Mike Gapes | Labour Co-op | Change UK | Ilford South | ||||
Chris Leslie | Labour Co-op | Change UK | Nottingham East | ||||
Gavin Shuker | Labour Co-op | Change UK | Luton South | ||||
4 June 2019 | Change UK | Independent | Left Change UK following in order to "work cross party" and "respond flexibly".[39] | ||||
10 July 2019 | Independent | The Independents | Formed new political grouping. | ||||
Angela Smith | 18 February 2019 | Labour | Change UK | Penistone and Stocksbridge | Resigned from Labour, citing party's approach to Brexit and antisemitism.[38] | ||
4 June 2019 | Change UK | Independent | Left Change UK following in order to "work cross party" and "respond flexibly".[39] | ||||
10 July 2019 | Independent | The Independents | Formed new political grouping. | ||||
7 September 2019 | The Independents | Liberal Democrats | Defected to the Liberal Democrats.[41] | ||||
Chuka Umunna | 18 February 2019 | Labour | Change UK | Streatham | Resigned from Labour, citing party's approach to Brexit and antisemitism.[38] | ||
4 June 2019 | Change UK | Independent | Left Change UK following in order to "work cross party" and "respond flexibly".[39] | ||||
13 June 2019 | Independent | Liberal Democrats | Decided against the need for a new political party.[42] | ||||
Joan Ryan | 19 February 2019 | Labour | Change UK | Enfield North | Resigned from Labour, citing party's approach to Brexit and antisemitism.[38] | ||
Anna Soubry | 20 February 2019 | Conservative | Change UK | Broxtowe | Resigned from the Conservatives in response to its perceived move to the political right, such as "Hard Brexit" policies.[43] | ||
Heidi Allen | 20 February 2019 | Conservative | Change UK | South Cambridgeshire | |||
4 June 2019 | Change UK | Independent | Wanted to "work cross party" and "respond flexibly".[39] | ||||
10 July 2019 | Independent | The Independents | Formed new political grouping. | ||||
7 October 2019 | The Independents | Liberal Democrats | Joined the Lib Dems, citing effectiveness as part of a team, rejecting the status quo, and stopping Brexit.[44] | ||||
Sarah Wollaston | 20 February 2019 | Conservative | Change UK | Totnes | Resigned from the Conservatives in response to its perceived move to the political right, such as "Hard Brexit" policies.[43] | ||
4 June 2019 | Change UK | Independent | Wanted to "work cross party" and "respond flexibly".[39] | ||||
14 August 2019 | Independent | Liberal Democrats | Joined the Lib Dems to make the case for the UK to "remain at the heart of Europe".[45] | ||||
Ian Austin | 22 February 2019 | Labour | Independent | Dudley North | Resigned from Labour, blaming leader Jeremy Corbyn for "creating a culture of extremism and intolerance". | ||
Chris Williamson | 27 February 2019 | Labour | Independent | Derby North | Suspended for stating Labour had been "too apologetic" about allegations of antisemitism.[46] | ||
26 June 2019 | Independent | Labour | Reinstated.[47] | ||||
28 June 2019 | Labour | Independent | Suspended again.[48] | ||||
Nick Boles | 1 April 2019 | Conservative | Independent | Grantham and Stamford | Resigned from the Conservative Party, objecting that it was refusing to compromise over Brexit.[49] | ||
Phillip Lee | 3 September 2019 | Conservative | Liberal Democrats | Bracknell | Resigned from the Conservative Party over its stance on Brexit, and shift to the right.[50] | ||
Guto Bebb | Conservative | Independent | Aberconwy | Suspended from the Conservatives after voting against the Government, on a motion to allow Parliament to control the order paper in order to introduce a bill to prevent a no-deal Brexit.[51][52] | |||
Kenneth Clarke | Conservative | Independent | Rushcliffe | ||||
David Gauke | Conservative | Independent | South West Hertfordshire | ||||
Justine Greening | Conservative | Independent | Putney | ||||
Dominic Grieve | Conservative | Independent | Beaconsfield | ||||
Philip Hammond | Conservative | Independent | Runnymede and Weybridge | ||||
Oliver Letwin | Conservative | Independent | West Dorset | ||||
Anne Milton | Conservative | Independent | Guildford | ||||
Rory Stewart | Conservative | Independent | Penrith and The Border | ||||
Sam Gyimah | Conservative | Independent | East Surrey | ||||
14 September 2019 | Independent | Liberal Democrats | Joined the Lib Dems, citing UK institutions and democracy.[53] | ||||
Antoinette Sandbach | 3 September 2019 | Conservative | Independent | Eddisbury | Suspended after voting against the Government (see above). | ||
31 October 2019 | Independent | Liberal Democrats | Joined the Lib Dems, citing progressive centre-ground liberal values and the two main parties "floating off to two extremes".[54] | ||||
Richard Benyon | 3 September 2019 | Conservative | Independent | Newbury | Suspended from the Conservatives on 3 September after voting against the Government, on a motion to allow Parliament to control the order paper in order to introduce a bill to prevent a no-deal Brexit.[51][52]
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29 October 2019 | Independent | Conservative | |||||
Steve Brine | 3 September 2019 | Conservative | Independent | Winchester | |||
29 October 2019 | Independent | Conservative | |||||
Alistair Burt | 3 September 2019 | Conservative | Independent | North East Bedfordshire | |||
29 October 2019 | Independent | Conservative | |||||
Greg Clark | 3 September 2019 | Conservative | Independent | Tunbridge Wells | |||
29 October 2019 | Independent | Conservative | |||||
Stephen Hammond | 3 September 2019 | Conservative | Independent | Wimbledon | |||
29 October 2019 | Independent | Conservative | |||||
Richard Harrington | 3 September 2019 | Conservative | Independent | Watford | |||
29 October 2019 | Independent | Conservative | |||||
Margot James | 3 September 2019 | Conservative | Independent | Stourbridge | |||
29 October 2019 | Independent | Conservative | |||||
Caroline Nokes | 3 September 2019 | Conservative | Independent | Romsey and Southampton North | |||
29 October 2019 | Independent | Conservative | |||||
Nicholas Soames | 3 September 2019 | Conservative | Independent | Mid Sussex | |||
29 October 2019 | Independent | Conservative | |||||
Ed Vaizey | 3 September 2019 | Conservative | Independent | Wantage | |||
29 October 2019 | Independent | Conservative | |||||
Amber Rudd | 7 September 2019 | Conservative | Independent | Hastings and Rye | Resigned, saying leaving the EU with a deal was no longer HM Government's main objective and objecting to deselection of "The 21".[56] | ||
Mike Hill | 22 September 2019 | Labour | Independent | Hartlepool | Suspended over allegations of sexual harassment.[57] | ||
21 October 2019 | Independent | Labour | Reinstated after allegations of sexual harassment were dropped.[58] | ||||
Stephen Hepburn | 7 October 2019 | Labour | Independent | Jarrow | Suspended over allegations of sexual harassment.[59] | ||
Louise Ellman | 17 October 2019 | Labour Co-op | Independent | Liverpool Riverside | Resigned from Labour over antisemitism in the party, saying that Jeremy Corbyn is "not fit" to become prime minister.[60] | ||
Keith Vaz | 31 October 2019 | Labour | Suspended | Leicester East | Suspended from the House of Commons for 6 months, following Commons Standards Committee's findings that he "expressed willingness" to purchase cocaine for sex workers.[61] | ||
John Bercow | 4 November 2019 | The Speaker | Vacant | Buckingham | Stepped down as Speaker after ten years, and as MP.[62][63] | ||
Lindsay Hoyle | Labour | The Speaker | Chorley | Elected and royally approved as Speaker after nine years as Chairman of Ways and Means.[64] |
Progression of government majority and party totals
The majority is calculated as above.
Date | Event | Majority | Con | DUP | Lab | SNP | LD | SF | PC | Grn | CUK | TI | BSJP | Speaker | Ind | Suspended | Vacant |
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21 June 2017 | Opening of Parliament | 13 | 317 | 10 | 262 | 35 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
10 July 2017 | Morris suspended from Conservatives | 11 | 316 | 2 | |||||||||||||
25 October 2017 | O'Mara suspended from Labour | 261 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
2 November 2017 | Hopkins suspended from Labour | 260 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
3 November 2017 | Elphicke suspended from Conservatives | 9 | 315 | 5 | |||||||||||||
23 November 2017 | Lewis suspended from Labour | 259 | 6 | ||||||||||||||
12 December 2017 | Morris readmitted to Conservatives | 11 | 316 | 5 | |||||||||||||
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Date | Event | Majority | Con | DUP | Lab | SNP | LD | SF | PC | Grn | CUK | TI | BSJP | Speaker | Ind | Suspended | Vacant |
8 January 2018 | McElduff suspended from Sinn Féin | 11 | 316 | 10 | 259 | 35 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||
16 January 2018 | McElduff (Ind) resigns seat | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
30 April 2018 | Woodcock suspended from Labour | 258 | 6 | ||||||||||||||
3 May 2018 | Begley wins W Tyrone by-election for Sinn Féin | 7 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
9 May 2018 | Alexander (Labour) resigns seat | 12 | 257 | 1 | |||||||||||||
14 June 2018 | Daby wins Lewisham E by-election for Labour | 11 | 258 | 0 | |||||||||||||
3 July 2018 | O'Mara readmitted to Labour | 259 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
12 July 2018 | O'Mara resigns from Labour | 258 | 6 | ||||||||||||||
24 July 2018 | Paisley suspended from DUP | 9 | 9 | 7 | |||||||||||||
21 August 2018 | Griffiths suspended from Conservatives | 7 | 315 | 8 | |||||||||||||
30 August 2018 | Field resigns from Labour | 257 | 9 | ||||||||||||||
21 November 2018 | Paisley readmitted to DUP | 9 | 10 | 8 | |||||||||||||
6 December 2018 | Lloyd resigns from Liberal Democrats | 11 | 9 | ||||||||||||||
12 December 2018 | Elphicke, Griffiths readmitted to Conservatives | 13 | 317 | 7 | |||||||||||||
19 December 2018 | Onasanya suspended from Labour | 256 | 8 | ||||||||||||||
2019 | |||||||||||||||||
Date | Event | Majority | Con | DUP | Lab | SNP | LD | SF | PC | Grn | CUK | TI | BSJP | Speaker | Ind | Suspended | Vacant |
17 February 2019 | Flynn (Labour) dies | 14 | 317 | 10 | 255 | 35 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | |||
18 February 2019 | Seven Labour MPs leave to join Change UK | 248 | 7 | ||||||||||||||
19 February 2019 | Ryan leaves Labour for Change UK | 247 | 8 | ||||||||||||||
20 February 2019 | Three Conservative MPs join Change UK | 8 | 314 | 11 | |||||||||||||
22 February 2019 | Austin resigns from Labour | 246 | 9 | ||||||||||||||
27 February 2019 | Williamson suspended from Labour | 245 | 10 | ||||||||||||||
1 April 2019 | Boles resigns from Conservatives | 6 | 313 | 11 | |||||||||||||
4 April 2019 | Jones wins Newport West by-election for Labour | 5 | 246 | 11 | 0 | ||||||||||||
1 May 2019 | Onasanya (Ind) removed by recall petition | 6 | 10 | 1 | |||||||||||||
4 June 2019 | Six MPs leave Change UK, become Independent | 5 | 16 | ||||||||||||||
6 June 2019 | Forbes wins Peterborough by-election for Labour | 5 | 247 | 0 | |||||||||||||
13 June 2019 | Umunna (Ind) joins Liberal Democrats | 12 | 15 | ||||||||||||||
21 June 2019 | Davies (Con) removed after recall petition | 4 | 312 | 1 | |||||||||||||
10 July 2019 | Five independent MPs form The Independents | 5 | 10 | ||||||||||||||
22 July 2019 | Elphicke suspended from Conservatives | 2 | 311 | 11 | |||||||||||||
1 August 2019 | Dodds wins Brecon & Radnor by-election for Lib Dems | 1 | 13 | 0 | |||||||||||||
2 August 2019 | Field forms BJSP | 1 | 10 | ||||||||||||||
15 August 2019 | Wollaston (Ind) joins Liberal Democrats | 14 | 9 | ||||||||||||||
3 September 2019 | Lee (Con) joins Lib Dems; 21 Con MPs become Inds | -43 | 289 | 15 | 30 | ||||||||||||
5 September 2019 | Berger (The Independents) joins the Lib Dems | 16 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
7 September 2019 | Rudd resigns from Cons; Smith (TI) joins Lib Dems | -45 | 288 | 17 | 3 | 31 | |||||||||||
14 September 2019 | Gyimah (Ind) joins Lib Dems | 18 | 30 | ||||||||||||||
22 September 2019 | Hill suspended from Labour | 246 | 31 | ||||||||||||||
7 October 2019 | Hepburn suspended from Lab; Allen (TI) joins Lib Dems | 245 | 19 | 2 | 32 | ||||||||||||
16 October 2019 | Ellman resigns from Labour | 244 | 33 | ||||||||||||||
21 October 2019 | Hill readmitted to Labour | 245 | 32 | ||||||||||||||
28 October 2019 | Mann (Labour) vacates seat on elevation to Lords | -44 | 244 | 1 | |||||||||||||
29 October 2019 | 10 Inds have Con whip restored | -24 | 298 | 22 | |||||||||||||
31 October 2019 | Sandbach to LD; Vaz suspended | -23 | 243 | 20 | 21 | 1 | |||||||||||
4 November 2019 | Bercow (Speaker) vacates seat; Hoyle elected Speaker | 242 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Date | Event | Majority | Con | DUP | Lab | SNP | LD | SF | PC | Grn | CUK | TI | BSJP | Speaker | Ind | Suspended | Vacant |
See also
- Members of the House of Lords
- List of United Kingdom MPs by seniority (2017–2019)
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