This is a complete list of members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1950 general election, held on 23 February 1950.
1950–1951 Parliament of the United Kingdom | |||||
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Overview | |||||
Legislative body | Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||||
Term | 23 February 1950 | – 26 October 1951||||
Election | 1950 United Kingdom general election | ||||
Government | Second Attlee ministry | ||||
House of Commons | |||||
Members | 625 | ||||
Speaker | Douglas Clifton Brown | ||||
Leader | Herbert Morrison James Chuter Ede | ||||
Prime Minister | Clement Attlee | ||||
Leader of the Opposition | Winston Churchill | ||||
Third-party leader | Clement Davies | ||||
House of Lords | |||||
Lord Chancellor | Earl Jowitt |
Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included Edward Heath, Horace King, Fred Mulley, Bernard Braine, Harry Hylton-Foster, Iain Macleod, Gerald Nabarro, Reginald Maudling, Robert Carr, Bill Deedes, Enoch Powell, David Ormsby-Gore, Christopher Soames, Anthony Crosland, and Jo Grimond.
These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1950 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.
Affiliation | Members | |
Labour Party | 315 | |
Conservative Party* | 246 | |
Unionist | 26 | |
National Liberal* | 16 | |
UUP* | 10 | |
Liberal Party | 9 | |
Independent Nationalist | 2 | |
Independent Liberal | 1 | |
Total | 625 | |
Effective government majority | 5 |
× MacManaway was disqualified for being a Church of Ireland priest. A by-election was held in November 1950.
ł Polling in Moss Side took place on 9 March after the Conservative candidate, Sqn. Ldr. Fleming, died before polling day. Florence Horsbrugh had previously stood in the main election in Midlothian and Peebles.
See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.