List of parliaments of the United Kingdom

This is a list of parliaments of the United Kingdom, tabulated with the elections to the House of Commons and the list of members of the House.^[1]

The parliaments are numbered from the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. For previous Westminster parliaments, see the list of parliaments of Great Britain and list of parliaments of England. For pre-Union Dublin parliaments, see the list of parliaments of Ireland. For pre-1707 Scottish parliaments, see the list of parliaments of Scotland.

List of parliaments

Monarch	Number	Start date	Election	Members	Prime ministers[α]	Party control[β]	Percentage of popular vote
George III	1	1801	none: co-opted		William Pitt	Tory
					Henry Addington
	2	1802	General election	MPs
					William Pitt
	3	1806	General election	MPs	The Lord Grenville	Whig
	4	1807	General election	MPs	The Duke of Portland	Tory
					Spencer Perceval
					The Earl of Liverpool
	5	1812	General election	MPs
	6	1818	General election	MPs
George IV	7	1820	General election	MPs
	8	1826	General election	MPs
					George Canning
					The Viscount Goderich
					The Duke of Wellington
William IV	9	1830	General election	MPs	The Earl Grey		59.3%
	10	1831	General election	MPs		Whig	63.3%
	11	1832	General election	MPs			67.0%
					The Viscount Melbourne
					Sir Robert Peel
	12	1835	General election	MPs	The Viscount Melbourne		55.2%
Victoria	13	1837	General election	MPs			51.7%
	14	1841	General election	MPs	Sir Robert Peel	Conservative	56.9%
	15	1847	General election	MPs	Lord John Russell	Whig	53.8%
	16	1852	General election	MPs	The Earl of Derby	Conservative	41.9%
					The Earl of Aberdeen
	17	1857	General election	MPs	The Viscount Palmerston	Whig	65.9%
					The Earl of Derby
	18	1859	General election	MPs	The Viscount Palmerston	Liberal	65.7%
	19	1865	General election	MPs	The Earl Russell		59.5%
					The Earl of Derby
					Benjamin Disraeli
	20	1868	General election	MPs	William Ewart Gladstone		61.5%
	21	1874	General election	MPs	Benjamin Disraeli[γ]	Conservative	44.3%
	22	1880	General election	MPs	William Ewart Gladstone	Liberal	54.7%
	23	1885	General election	MPs	The Marquess of Salisbury	Liberal (minority)	47.4%
					William Ewart Gladstone
	24	1886	General election	MPs	The Marquess of Salisbury	Conservative	51.1%
	25	1892	General election	MPs	William Ewart Gladstone	Liberal (minority)	45.4%
					The Earl of Rosebery
	26	1895	General election	MPs	The Marquess of Salisbury	Conservative	49.0%
	27	1900	General election	MPs			50.3%
Edward VII					Arthur Balfour
	28	1906	General election	MPs	Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman	Liberal	48.9%
					Herbert Asquith
	29	1910 (Jan)	General election	MPs		Liberal (minority)	43.5%
George V
	30	1910 (Dec)	General election	MPs			43.2%
					David Lloyd George
	31	1918	General election	MPs		Coalition (Coa.Lib–Con–Lab)	47.1%
	32	1922	General election	MPs	Bonar Law	Conservative	38.5%
	33	1923	General election	MPs	Ramsay MacDonald	Labour (minority)	30.7%
	34	1924	General election	MPs	Stanley Baldwin	Conservative	46.8%
	35	1929	General election	MPs	Ramsay MacDonald	Labour (minority)	37.1%
	36	1931	General election	MPs		National Government	67.2%
	37	1935	General election	MPs	Stanley Baldwin	National Government	53.3%
Edward VIII
George VI
					Neville Chamberlain
					Winston Churchill
	38	1945	General election	MPs	Clement Attlee	Labour	49.7%
	39	1950	General election	MPs			46.1%
	40	1951	General election	MPs	Winston Churchill[δ]	Conservative	48.0%
Elizabeth II
	41	1955	General election	MPs	Anthony Eden		49.7%
					Harold Macmillan
	42	1959	General election	MPs			49.4%
					The Earl of Home[ε]
	43	1964	General election	MPs	Harold Wilson	Labour	44.1%
	44	1966	General election	MPs			48.0%
	45	1970	General election	MPs	Edward Heath	Conservative	46.4%
	46	1974 (Feb)	General election	MPs	Harold Wilson	Labour (minority)	37.2%
	47	1974 (Oct)	General election	MPs		Labour	39.2%
					James Callaghan
	48	1979	General election	MPs	Margaret Thatcher	Conservative	43.9%
	49	1983	General election	MPs			42.3%
	50	1987	General election	MPs			42.2%
					John Major
	51	1992	General election	MPs			41.9%
	52	1997	General election	MPs	Tony Blair	Labour	43.2%
	53	2001	General election	MPs			40.7%
	54	2005	General election	MPs			35.2%
					Gordon Brown
	55	2010	General election	MPs	David Cameron	Coalition (Con–Lib.Dem)	59.1%
	56	2015	General election	MPs		Conservative	36.9%
					Theresa May
	57	2017	General election	MPs			42.4%
					Boris Johnson
	58	2019	General election	MPs			43.6%
					Liz Truss
Charles III
					Rishi Sunak
	59	2024	General election	MPs	Sir Keir Starmer	Labour	33.7%

Notes

1. The term prime minister was not officially recognised until Campbell-Bannerman, although the title had been in common use, if initially as an insult, since 1721.
2. The parties listed are those that won the election. During the 19th century, the party of government sometimes changed between general elections.
3. Disraeli was made the Earl of Beaconsfield from 1876, during his term as Prime Minister.
4. Churchill was made Sir Winston Churchill from 1953, during his term as Prime Minister.
5. The Earl of Home was made Sir Alec Douglas-Hom from 1959, during his term as Prime Minister.

See also

• Duration of English parliaments before 1660
• Duration of English, British and United Kingdom parliaments from 1660
• List of parliaments of England
• List of parliaments of Scotland
• List of parliaments of Great Britain
• List of British governments

References

1. "House of Commons | UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 July 2024.