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List of MPs elected in the 1992 United Kingdom general election

List of MPs elected in the 1992 United Kingdom general election

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This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected in the 1992 general election, held on 9 April.

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During the 1992–97 Parliament, Betty Boothroyd was the Speaker, John Major served as Prime Minister, and Neil Kinnock, John Smith, Margaret Beckett, and Tony Blair served as Leader of the Opposition. This Parliament was dissolved on 8 April 1997.[1]

By nation

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:

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.

Affiliation Members
Conservative Party 336
Labour Party 271
Liberal Democrats 20
Ulster Unionist Party 9
Plaid Cymru 4
Social Democratic and Labour Party 4
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Scottish National Party 3
Ulster Popular Unionist Party 1
 Total 651
 Notional government majority 21
 Effective government majority 46
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z By-elections

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By-elections

See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.

Two seats were vacant when Parliament was dissolved preparatory to the 1997 general election:

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:

Defections

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 also here.

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References

  1. "Politics 97". BBC News. 1 May 1997.

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