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This is a list of
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.
* The National Liberals were in alliance with the Conservatives, bringing total Conservative strength to 321 seats.
This is a complete list of
Members of Parliament
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elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom
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at the 1951 general election, held on 25 October 1951. A total of 625 MPs were elected.
Notable newcomers to the House of Commons
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included Anthony Barber
Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber, Baron Barber, (4 July 1920 – 16 December 2005) was a British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1970 to 1974.
After serving in both the Territorial Army and the Royal A ...
, Lord Lambton and Ted Short.
Composition
These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1951 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.
* The National Liberals were in alliance with the Conservatives, bringing total Conservative strength to 321 seats.
This is a complete list of 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 of ...
elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom
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at the 1951 general election on 25 October 1951.
° Frank Collindridge
Frank Collindridge CBE (1891 – 16 October 1951) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Born in Barnsley, Collindridge became a coal miner, and became active in the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) and the Labour Party ...
, the sitting MP for Barnsley, died during the campaign. A special election took place on 8 November .
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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See also
*List of parliaments of the United Kingdom
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The parliaments are numbered from the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ...
* UK general election, 1951
* :UK MPs 1951-1955
References
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Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the United ...
1951 United Kingdom general election
List
UK MPs
Following is a (currently incomplete) list of past United Kingdom MPs in alphabetical order.
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