This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by English constituencies for the Fifty-Eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–present).
It includes both MPs elected at the 2019 general election, held on 12 December 2019, and those subsequently elected in by-elections.
The list is sorted by the name of the MP, and MPs who did not serve throughout the Parliament are italicised. New MPs elected since the general election are noted at the bottom of the page.
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Hello Internet The UK had an election we need to talk about because after the debates finished, the people voted and the ballots tallied the results were this: But parliament ended up looking like this: Which isn't, exactly, representative. And by not exactly, I mean at all. Red earned 30% of the vote and 36% of the seats, which is sort of close, but the rest is madness: Orange earned 8% of the vote but got one eighth of that while Yellow's 5% just about doubled, and purple earned 13% and got squat. Meanwhile blue's 37% of the people booted to 51% of the seats in parliament. The blue boost is even bigger when you consider that 51% of the seats gives basically 100% the control. How'd this happen? In the UK -- national elections aren't really national, they're a bunch of local elections. The UK is divided into constituencies, each of which elects one member of parliament (M.P.) to represent them. This local / national divide is where the trouble begins. Imagine a parliament with just three constituencies, and it's easy to see how it wouldn't always align with citizens. Some people think this sort of result is fine -- “it's all *about* winning local elections,” they’ll say. “Each M.P. represents their constituency.” And while the imbalance in this example is dumb, but it's the same problem in the real election and this same argument is given, but there are two more problems with it in reality land. 1) Few citizens have any idea who their MP is, they just know what party they voted for -- what party they want to represent their views on the national level. And pretending like it's a local election is a bit disingenuous. -- in practice it's an election for now the nation will run -- not really for who is going to represent a tiny part of it. and even if it were 2) The individual constituencies are worse at representing their citizens than parliament. Indulge this spreadsheet-loving nerd for a moment, will you? The difference between what a party earned at the polls and what they got in parliament is the amount of misrepresentation error. If we calculate all the errors for all the parties and add them up we can say the Parliament as a whole has 47% percentage points of misrepresentation error. That sounds bad looks like a utopian rainbow of diversity compared to any local election because the local elections have *one* winner. Out of the 650 constituencies 647 have a higher representation error than parliament. These are the only three that don't and they're really unusual for having so many of a single kind of voter in one place. Most places look the The Wrekin which is dead in the middle a mere one-hundred and one points off. Note that the winning candidate didn't reach a majority here. Which means more than half of constituencies elected their MP with a minority of voters. The worst is Belfast South at the bottom of the list. Hilariously unrepresentative. Less than a quarter of the voters get to speak for the entire place in parliament. This is the the lowest percentage an M.P. has ever been elected by. So when people argue that the UK election is a bunch of local elections 1) people don't act like it, and 2) It's even more of an argument that the elections are broken because they're worse on this level. These local elections are unrepresentative because of the terrible 'First Past the Post' voting system -- which I have complained mightily about and won't repeat everything here -- go watch the video -- but TL;DR it only 'works' when citizens are limited to two choices. Voting for any party except the biggest makes it more likely the biggest will win by a minority -- which is exactly what happened. That citizens keep voting for smaller parties despite knowing the result is against their strategic interests demonstrates the citizenry wants diverse representation -- but that successes is the very thing that's made this the most unrepresentative parliament in the history of the UK. People happy with the results argue the system is working fine -- of course they do. Their team won. Government isn't a sport where a singular 'winner' must be determined. It's a system to make rules that everyone follows and so, we need a system where everyone can agree the process is fair even if the results don't go in their favor. If you support a system that disenfranchises people you don't like and turbo-franchises people you do -- then it doesn't look like you sport representative democracy, it looks like you support a kind of dictatorship light. Where a small group of people (including you) makes the rules for everyone. But as it is now, on election day the more people express what they want the worse the system looks which makes them disengaged at best or angry at worst and GEE I CAN'T IMAGINE WHY. This is fixable, there are many, many better ways the UK could vote -- here are two that even keep local representatives. And fixing voting really matters, because this is a kind of government illegitimacy score -- and it's been going up and may continue to do so unless this fundamentally broken voting system is changed.
Composition
Affiliation | Members | |
Conservative Party | 329 | |
Labour Party | 179 | |
Liberal Democrats | 11 | |
Independent | 10 | |
Green Party | 1 | |
Reform UK | 1 | |
Workers Party | 1 | |
Speaker | 1 | |
Total | 533 |
MPs in the East of England region
Affiliation | Members | |
Conservative | 51 | |
Labour | 6 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | |
Independent | 1 | |
Total | 60 |
MPs in the East Midlands region
Affiliation | Members | |
Conservative | 36 | |
Labour | 8 | |
Reform UK | 1 | |
Independent | 3 | |
Total | 48 |
MPs in the London region
Affiliation | Members | |
Labour | 48 | |
Conservative | 21 | |
Liberal Democrats | 3 | |
Independent | 2 | |
Total | 74 |
MPs in the North East region
Affiliation | Members | |
Labour | 18 | |
Conservative | 11 | |
Independent | 1 | |
Total | 30 |
MPs in the North West region
Affiliation | Members | |
Labour | 43 | |
Conservative | 31 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | |
Speaker | 1 | |
Workers | 1 | |
Independent | 2 | |
Total | 77 |
MPs in the South East region
Affiliation | Members | |
Conservative | 73 | |
Labour | 8 | |
Liberal Democrats | 2 | |
Green | 1 | |
Independent | 1 | |
Total | 85 |
MPs in the South West region
Affiliation | Members | |
Conservative | 46 | |
Labour | 7 | |
Liberal Democrats | 3 | |
Independent | 2 | |
Total | 58 |
MPs in the West Midlands region
Affiliation | Members | |
Conservative | 42 | |
Labour | 17 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | |
Independent | 1 | |
Total | 61 |
MPs in the Yorkshire and the Humber region
Affiliation | Members | |
Labour | 31 | |
Conservative | 24 | |
Independent | 1 | |
Total | 56 |
By-elections
- 2021 Batley and Spen by-election
- 2021 Chesham and Amersham by-election
- 2021 Hartlepool by-election
- 2021 North Shropshire by-election
- 2021 Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election
- 2022 Birmingham Erdington by-election
- 2022 City of Chester by-election
- 2022 Southend West by-election
- 2022 Stretford and Urmston by-election
- 2022 Tiverton and Honiton by-election
- 2022 Wakefield by-election
- 2023 Mid Bedfordshire by-election
- 2023 Selby and Ainsty by-election
- 2023 Tamworth by-election
- 2023 Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election
- 2023 West Lancashire by-election
- 2024 Kingswood by-election
- 2024 Rochdale by-election
- 2024 Wellingborough by-election
See also
- 2019 United Kingdom general election in England
- List of MPs elected in the 2019 United Kingdom general election
- List of MPs for constituencies in Northern Ireland (2019–present)
- List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (2019–present)
- List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (2019–present)
Notes
- ^ Hancock's Conservative whip was suspended in November 2022 and he currently sits as an independent.[1]
- ^ Anderson was elected as a Conservative candidate in the 2019 election before his suspension from the party in February 2024. He joined Reform UK in March.
- ^ Bridgen was elected as a Conservative candidate in the 2010 election before his expulsion from the party in April 2023. He joined the Reclaim Party in May but resigned from it in December.
- ^ Webbe was elected as a Labour candidate in the 2019 election before her expulsion from the party in November 2021.
- ^ Charalambous's Labour whip was suspended in June 2023 and he currently sits as an independent.[2]
- ^ Corbyn was suspended from Labour in October 2020 and reinstated to the party in November but the parliamentary whip was not restored. He currently sits as an independent.[3][4]
- ^ Davey was defeated in the 2015 election and re-entered the House in the 2017 election.[5]
- ^ Olney was defeated in the 2017 election and re-entered the House in the 2019 election.[6]
- ^ Nick Brown was suspended from Labour in September 2022 and resigned from the party in December 2023. He currently sits as an independent.
- ^ Galloway previously served in the House as the Member for Glasgow Hillhead (Scotland) from 1987 to 1997, the Member for Glasgow Kelvin (Scotland) from 1997 to 2005, the Member for Bethnal Green and Bow from 2005 to 2010, and the Member for Bradford West from 2012 to 2015.
- ^ Lloyd previously served in the House as the Member for Stretford from 1983 to 1997 and the Member for Manchester Central from 1997 to 2012.[7]
- ^ McVey previously served in the House as the Member for Wirral West from 2010 to 2015.[8]
- ^ Wakeford was elected as a Conservative in the 2019 election before defecting to Labour in January 2022.[9]
- ^ Davies previously served in the House as the Member for Eastleigh from 2015 to 2019.[10]
- ^ Parish was elected as a Conservative in the 2010 election before the party whip was withdrawn in April 2022.
- ^ Warburton was suspended by the parliamentary Conservatives in April 2022 and sat as an independent.[11]
- ^ Pincher was suspended by the parliamentary Conservatives in July 2022 and sat as an independent.[12]
- ^ Ahmad Khan was elected as a Conservative in the 2019 election before his expulsion from the party in April 2022.
- ^ Brabin resigned in May 2021 to take her post as Mayor of West Yorkshire.
- ^ McCartney was defeated in the 2017 election and re-entered the House in the 2019 election.[13]
References
- ^ Elgot, Jessica; Khomami, Nadia; Dyer, Henry (1 November 2022). "Matt Hancock loses Tory whip after agreeing to appear on I'm a Celebrity". The Guardian.
- ^ "Labour shadow minister Bambos Charalambous suspended over complaint". BBC News. 9 June 2023.
- ^ Culbertson, Alix; Allegretti, Aubrey (30 October 2020). "Jeremy Corbyn suspended from Labour Party over antisemitism report reaction". Sky News.
- ^ "Jeremy Corbyn will not return as Labour MP, says Sir Keir Starmer". BBC News. 18 November 2020.
- ^ Watts, Matt (9 June 2017). "Ed Davey wins back marginal Kingston and Surbiton from Tories". Evening Standard. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ Kellie, Susie (13 December 2019). "Richmond Park 2019 General Election results: Sarah Olney claims seat for Lib Dems". Richmond & Twickenham Times. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ Linton, Deborah (17 March 2012). "Labour chooses Tony Lloyd to bid to become Greater Manchester police commissioner". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
- ^ Bradbury, Sean (8 May 2015). "Watch the moment Esther McVey lost her seat in Wirral West". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
- ^ Watson, Iain (19 January 2022). "Christian Wakeford's long walk to defection". BBC News. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- ^ Taylor, Rebecca (11 November 2019). "General election: Tory candidate accused of dumping seat to switch to safer constituency". Sky News. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
- ^ "Tory MP David Warburton suspended during investigation into claims". BBC News. 2 April 2022.
- ^ Nevett, Joshua (1 July 2022). "Chris Pincher suspended as Tory MP after groping allegation". BBC News. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
- ^ Lavigueur, Nick (13 December 2019). "Jason McCartney takes back Colne Valley from Thelma Walker". ExaminerLive. Retrieved 19 December 2019.