This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected in the 1992 general election, held on 9 April. During the 1992–97 Parliament, Betty Boothroyd was the Speaker,

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 (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997, and as Member of Parliament ...

served as Prime Minister, and Neil Kinnock,

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, Margaret Beckett, and Tony Blair served as Leader of the Opposition. This Parliament was dissolved on 8 April 1997.

By nation

List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1992–1997) This is a list of the 72 Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Scottish constituencies for the Fifty-First Parliament of the United Kingdom (1992 to 1997) at the 1992 United Kingdom general elect ...

* List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (1992–1997)

Composition

These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties as it was directly after the 1992 general election and before the 1997 general election: House of Commons elected members, 1992

Note: The Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru sit together as a party group. 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 1997 general election: *Meriden:

Iain Mills Iain Campbell Mills (21 April 1940 – 16 January 1997) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Mills was educated in southern Africa and subsequently worked as a Market Planning Executive for Dunlop. He served as a counci ...

(Con) died 13 January 1997 *Don Valley:

Martin Redmond Martin Redmond (15 August 1937 – 16 January 1997) was a British Labour Party politician from Doncaster in South Yorkshire. Martin Redmond was of Irish descent and was born in Scawsby, near Doncaster. He was educated at Woodlands Roman Catholi ...

(Lab) died 16 January 1997 One further MP died prior to the 1997 general election (who was standing down due to health problems, incidentally) during the period in which parliament was dissolved: *North Dorset: Nicholas Baker (Con) died 25 April 1997

Defections

*1995 Alan Howarth (Stratford-on-Avon) defects from Con to Lab. *1995

Emma Nicholson Emma Harriet Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (born 16 October 1941) is a British politician, who has been a life peer since 1997. She was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon in 1987, befo ...

(Devon West and Torridge) defects from Con to Lib Dem. *1996 Peter Thurnham (Bolton North East) defects from Con to Lib Dem, with eight months as an independent. *March 1997 George Gardiner (Reigate) defects from Con to Referendum Party.

Progression of government majority and party totals

The government voting total is the total number of Conservative MPs, minus the two Conservative Deputy Speakers. The opposition voting total is the total number of other MPs, minus the Speaker and the Labour Deputy Speaker. The majority is the difference between the former and the latter. See als
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By nation

Composition

By-elections

Defections

Progression of government majority and party totals

References

See also