Template:UK House of Commons composition
| Affiliation | Members | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elected in 2019[1] | At dissolution in 2024[2] | Change | ||
| Conservative | 365 | 344 |  21
| |
| Labour[a] | 202 | 205 |  3
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| SNP | 48 | 43 | 5
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| Liberal Democrats | 11 | 15 | 4
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| DUP | 8 | 7 | 1
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| Sinn Féin | 7 | 7 | 
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| Plaid Cymru | 4 | 3 | 1
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| SDLP | 2 | 2 |
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| Alba | N/A[b] | 2[c] | 2
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| Green | 1 | 1 |
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| Alliance | 1 | 1 |
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| Workers Party | N/A[b] | 1 | 1
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| Reform UK | 0 | 1 | 1
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| Speaker | 1 | 1 |
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| Independent | 0 | 17[d] | 17
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| Total | 650 | 650 |
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| Voting total[e] | 639 | 638 | 1[f]
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| Vacant | 0 | 0 |
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| Government majority | 87 | 44[7] | 43
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For full details of changes during the 2019-2024 Parliament, see By-elections and Defections, suspensions and resignations.
Notes[edit]
- ^ Includes 24 MPs sponsored by the Co-operative Party, who are designated Labour and Co-operative.[3]
- ^ a b At the time of the 2019 election this party did not exist.
- ^ Both of the Alba Party's MPs, Kenny MacAskill and Neale Hanvey, were elected for the Scottish National Party (SNP) before leaving to join Alba in 2021.[4]
- ^ At the time of the dissolution of Parliament on 30 May 2024, eight of the independent MPs had been elected as Conservatives at the 2019 general election, including Andrew Bridgen, who defected to Reclaim in May 2023 but left the party in December 2023 and for the remainder of the 2019–2024 Parliament sat as an independent. The remaining nine independent MPs all came from the opposition benches.
- ^ The seven members of Sinn Féin abstained, i.e. they did not take their seats in the House of Commons;[5] the Speaker and deputy speakers (at this Parliament's dissolution, three Conservative and one Labour) had only a tie-breaking vote constrained by conventions.[6]
- ^ Deputy speaker Eleanor Laing (Con, Chair of Ways and Means) was on an extended leave of absence, and Roger Gale (Con) served as an additional acting deputy speaker from December 2022 until the end of the Parliament.
References[edit]
- ^ "Election 2019: Results". BBC News. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
- ^ "State of the parties". UK Parliament. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ^ "About: Members of Parliament". Co-operative Party. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ Webster, Laura (27 March 2021). "MP Kenny MacAskill quits SNP to join Alex Salmond's Alba Party". The National. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ Kelly, Conor (19 August 2019). "Understanding Sinn Féin's Abstention from the UK Parliament". E-International Relations. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
- ^ Boothroyd, David. "House of Commons: Tied Divisions". United Kingdom Election Results. Retrieved 25 July 2018.[dead link]
- ^ Zodgekar, Ketaki; Baker, Finn (8 May 2024). "What is the government's current working majority?". Institute for Government. Retrieved 10 May 2024.