| 1955–1959 Parliament of the United Kingdom | |||||
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.jpg.webp) Palace of Westminster in 1955 | |||||
| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||||
| Term | 26 May 1955 – 16 October 1959 | ||||
| Election | 1955 United Kingdom general election | ||||
| Government | Eden ministry First Macmillan ministry | ||||
| House of Commons | |||||
| Members | 630 | ||||
| Speaker | William Morrison | ||||
| Leader | Harry Crookshank R. A. Butler | ||||
| Prime Minister | Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan | ||||
| Leader of the Opposition | Herbert Morrison Hugh Gaitskell | ||||
| Third-party leader | Clement Davies Jo Grimond | ||||
| House of Lords | |||||
| Lord Chancellor | Viscount Kilmuir | ||||
This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1955 general election, held on 26 May 1955. A total of 630 MPs were elected.
Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included William Whitelaw and Geoffrey Rippon.
Composition
These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1955 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 | |
| Conservative Party | 345 | |
| Labour Party | 277 | |
| Liberal Party | 6 | |
| Sinn Féin | 2 | |
| Total | 630 | |
| Effective government majority | 29 | |
By-elections
See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.
See also
- List of parliaments of the United Kingdom
- UK general election, 1955
- Category:UK MPs 1955–1959
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