This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected in the

1983 general election The following elections occurred in the year 1983. Africa * 1983 Cameroonian parliamentary election * 1983 Equatorial Guinean legislative election * 1983 Kenyan general election * 1983 Malagasy parliamentary election * 1983 Malawian general e ...

, held on 9 June. This Parliament was dissolved in 1987. During 1983-1987

Bernard Weatherill Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, (25 November 1920 – 6 May 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1983 and 1992. Family He was the son of Bernard Bruce Weatherill (1 ...

was the speaker, Margaret Thatcher served as Prime Minister, Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock served as Leaders of the Opposition.

Composition

These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1983 general election. House of Commons elected members, 1983

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. __NOTOC__

By-elections

See the list of United Kingdom by-elections. Two seats were vacant when Parliament was dissolved preparatory to the 1987 general election: *Kirkcaldy –

Harry Gourlay Harry Philip Heggie Gourlay (10 July 1916 – 20 April 1987) was a Scotland, Scottish Scottish Labour Party, Labour Party politician. Gourlay was educated at Kirkcaldy High School and was a vehicles examiner. He served as a councillor on Kirkcal ...

(Lab) died 20 April 1987 *Lewisham, Deptford – John Silkin (Lab) died 26 April 1987

Composition

By-elections

See also