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Note: The Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru sit together as a party group, while Sinn Féin has not taken its seats. 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.
The effective majority is slightly higher as Sinn Féin members choose not to take up their seats, and the speaker doesn't usually vote. Speaker Betty Boothroyd was included in a Labour notional majority for statistical purposes.
Note:
# The election of Mark Oaten was declared void by the election court on 6 October 1997.
Members of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members ofte ...
(MPs) elected to the House of Commons
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at the 1997 general election, held on 1 May.
The list is arranged by constituency. New MPs elected since the general election are noted at the bottom of the page.
During the 1997–2001 Parliament, Betty Boothroyd
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd (born 8 October 1929) is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000. From 1992 to 2000, she served as Speaker of the House of ...
and Michael Martin served as Speaker, Tony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...
served as Prime Minister, and John Major
Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997, and as Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon, formerly Huntin ...
and William Hague
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served as Leader of the Opposition. Dissolution of Parliament was on 14 May 2001.
Sub-lists
* List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1997–2001) * List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (1997–2001)Composition
These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1997 general election.
Note: The Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru sit together as a party group, while Sinn Féin has not taken its seats. 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.
The effective majority is slightly higher as Sinn Féin members choose not to take up their seats, and the speaker doesn't usually vote. Speaker Betty Boothroyd was included in a Labour notional majority for statistical purposes.
Note:
# The election of Mark Oaten was declared void by the election court on 6 October 1997.
By-elections
See thelist of United Kingdom by-elections
The list of by-elections in the United Kingdom is divided chronologically by parliament:
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References
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