List of MPs elected in the 1950 United Kingdom general election

1950–1951 Parliament of the United Kingdom
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Palace of Westminster in 1950
Overview
Legislative body	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Term	23 February 1950 (1950-02-23) – 26 October 1951 (1951-10-26)
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

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.

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.

Composition[edit]

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.

• The National Liberals, (Scottish) Unionists and Ulster Unionists were in alliance with the Conservatives, bringing total Conservative strength to 298 seats.

• By-elections
• See also
• References

× 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.

By-elections[edit]

See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.

See also[edit]

• List of parliaments of the United Kingdom
• UK general election, 1950
• List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (1950–1951)
• Category:UK MPs 1950–1951

References[edit]

• The Times House of Commons 1950 (1950)