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This is a list of Members of Parliament elected at the 1970 general election, held on 18 June.
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.
This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1970 general election held on 18 June.
Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included John Prescott,
Composition
These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1970 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.
This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1970 general election held on 18 June.
Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included John Prescott, Norman Tebbit
Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit (born 29 March 1931) is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment (1981–1983), Secretary of State for Trad ...
, Ian Paisley
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014) was a Northern Irish loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First ...
, John Smith
John Smith is a common personal name. It is also commonly used as a placeholder name and pseudonym, and is sometimes used in the United States and the United Kingdom as a term for an average person. It may refer to:
People
:''In chronological ...
, Neil Kinnock, Kenneth Clarke, John Gummer, Alan Haselhurst, Dennis Skinner, and Gerald Kaufman
Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman (21 June 1930 – 26 February 2017) was a British politician and author who served as a minister throughout the Labour government of 1974 to 1979. Elected as a member of parliament (MP) at the 1970 general election, ...
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By-elections
*See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.See also
* :UK MPs 1970-1974 {{UnitedKingdomMPs1970
Events
January
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General election
A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
UK MPs