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Post by mick745 on Dec 21, 2014 17:11:30 GMT
I have been working hard in collating the names of all the Members of Parliament since 1945 and can reveal that there have been 3,118 of them. I have put them all in a spreadsheet which can be viewed here: drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwvp6xntW0KwUVdFaThMMDFBRkk/view?usp=sharingBold italics indicates that a MP left during the Parliament. Highlighted yellow are MPs that won by-elections. I have placed it here for your information. There is obviously lots of work to be done, I wish to add dates or birth and death (it can then be tracked how many are living or dead from each parliament, oldest and youngest MPs etc.), and other information such as peerages. I also intend to take the database back further, at least to 1900. Meanwhile I have extracted some information already including a list of MPs leaving at each dissolution: drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwvp6xntW0KwMEhmblNYRTREOGM/view?usp=sharingAnd a list of retreads during this period (there are 225 of them): drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwvp6xntW0KwVkxsXzBKVUF4c3c/view?usp=sharingAll comments on improvements that could be made gratefully received. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 17:56:51 GMT
I bloody love you.
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Post by Andrew_S on Dec 22, 2014 4:30:21 GMT
Great work.
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Post by johnloony on Dec 23, 2014 0:26:40 GMT
That link isn't working properly for me... I can only see one page (where the text is too small to read, and there is no magnifying glass thingy) and it says "Whoops... there was a problem loading more pages."  |
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Post by mick745 on Dec 23, 2014 7:31:33 GMT
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Post by mrhell on Dec 23, 2014 17:06:05 GMT
I also had a problem. I think the best plan is to save the file as a spreadsheet.
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Post by mick745 on Jan 18, 2015 16:26:32 GMT
I have now added the 1935-1945 Parliament to my list, which brings the number of people who have sat in Parliament since 1935 to 3,614 - nearly 500 people ended their parliamentary careers during this 10 year period. Only 293 MPs who were sitting at the time of the 1945 dissolution were reelected - 141 did not seek reelection (I have included Walter Windsor in this list as he died during the campaign and therefore did not seek reelection) and an astonishing 174 stood for election but were unsuccessful. However, it does mean that the 149 who stood down in 2010 is the highest number of retirees so far, and will probably be the most ever.
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Post by Andrew_S on Jan 18, 2015 18:23:20 GMT
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Post by mick745 on Jan 23, 2015 11:55:06 GMT
This is the number of MPs ending their careers with each Parliament (by-elections included):
2005-2010 - 240 (a few of these are likely to be returned in 2015, so this number will change)
2001-2005 - 138
1997-2001 - 113
1992-1997 - 257
1987-1992 - 147
1983-1987 - 137
1979-1983 - 153
1974o-1979 - 141
1974f-1974o - 40
1970-1974f - 137
1966-1970 - 166
1964-1966 - 82
1959-1964 - 176
1955-1959 - 148
1951-1955 - 107
1950-1951 - 67
1945-1950 - 200
1935-1945 - 496
The number of 'first time' MPs beginning their careers with each parliament (by-elections included):
2010-2015 - 245
2005-2010 - 132
2001-2005 - 98
1997-2001 - 256
1992-1997 - 145
1987-1992 - 143
1983-1987 - 166
1979-1983 - 130
1974o-1979 - 62
1974f-1974o - 108
1970-1974f - 162
1966-1970 - 113
1964-1966 - 135
1959-1964 - 153
1955-1959 - 114
1951-1955 - 87
1950-1951 - 139
1945-1950 - 388
I have had a look again at the 1945 election and the figures really are staggering - I think at this stage of my research that the 1945 election is likely to be the only example of a UK election when fewer than half of the MPs at dissolution were re-elected (293v315).
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Post by neilm on Jan 25, 2015 10:53:21 GMT
Interesting that it's so close between 1997 and 2010, I'd not expected that
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Post by mick745 on Jan 31, 2015 11:03:03 GMT
I have now got back as far as the 1929-31 Parliament. The number of MPs elected since 1929 stands at 4,003. It is getting much more complicated now though - retreads are much rarer these days but were much more common in the 1920s and 1930s, it seems that a large percentage of the Labour MPs defeated in 1931 made a return, the number of retreads at the 1935 election was at least 72, and in 1945 was at least 21. There will also be a few in 1923 and 1924 also I suspect. For comparison these are the number of retreads making a return at each election (the earlier figures are subject to change as I uncover more examples as I take back the database list further):
2010 - 5
2005 - 4
2001 - 7
1997 - 17
1992 - 13
1987 - 9
1983 - 7
1979 - 14
1974O - 10
1974F - 20
1970 - 21
1966 - 9
1964 - 10
1959 - 7
1955 - 5
1951 - 12
1950 - 28
1945 - 21
1935 - 72
And at by-elections (I have left out those who sought reelection in their constituencies and were immediately re-elected such as David Davis, Mark Reckless, Mark Oaten and the NI MPs who resigned in protest in 1986).
2010-2015 - 1
2005-2010 - 0
2001-2005 - 0
1997-2001 - 3
1992-1997 - 0
1987-1992 - 2
1983-1987 - 1
1979-1983 - 6
1974O-1979 - 4
1974F-1974O - 1
1970-1974F - 5
1966-1970 - 7
1964-1966 - 5
1959-1964 - 10 (I have included Tony Benn in this figure)
1955-1959 - 6
1951-1955 - 8
1950-1951 - 8
1945-1950 - 10
1935-1945 - 31 (again I have included Ian Fraser in this figure)
1931-1935 - 10
the number of defeated (sitting) MPs who stood for reelection in 1931 was 225, which is by far the largest figure uncovered so far (and dwarfs even the 1945 (174) and 1997 (133) figures). Chances are this will be highest ever.
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Post by mick745 on May 16, 2015 23:31:55 GMT
I have updated my list to include the newly elected MPs from last week. I will post the list in the next few days. There were 177 MPs elected for the first time to Parliament on 7 May, meaning that there have been 3,295 people to be elected to Parliament since 1945. There were 5 retreads, Dawn Butler, Joan Ryan, Rob Marris, Boris Johnson and Alex Salmond. Only 1 MP is left who sat in Parliament in the 1960s, David Winnick who sat for Croydon South from 1966-1970.
The following current MPs sat in the 1970-Feb 1974 Parliament: Kenneth Clarke, Alan Haselhurst, Gerald Kaufman, Michael Meacher and Dennis Skinner.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 8:49:37 GMT
I have updated my list to include the newly elected MPs from last week. I will post the list in the next few days. There were 177 MPs elected for the first time to Parliament on 7 May, meaning that there have been 3,295 people to be elected to Parliament since 1945. There were 5 retreads, Dawn Butler, Joan Ryan, Rob Marris, Boris Johnson and Alex Salmond. Only 1 MP is left who sat in Parliament in the 1960s, David Winnick who sat for Croydon South from 1966-1970. The following current MPs sat in the 1970-Feb 1974 Parliament: Kenneth Clarke, Alan Haselhurst, Gerald Kaufman, Michael Meacher and Dennis Skinner. Excellent stuff. Sir Gerald Kaufman is Father of the House and will be presiding over tomorrow's Election of Speaker. We now have a retiring MPs thread for this Parliament: I wonder how many of those names you mention will be on that list. |
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Post by mick745 on May 17, 2015 14:55:55 GMT
During the 1945-2015 period, 2 MPs have sat in 14 Parliaments (Tony Benn and Edward Heath), 1 in 13 (Peter Tapsell), and 12 sat in 12 Parliaments (Julian Amery, Bernard Braine, James Callaghan, Kenneth Clarke, Tam Dalyell, Michael Foot, Hugh Fraser, Roy Jenkins, Gerald Kaufman, Michael Meacher, Dennis Skinner and Alan Williams). The other figures are: 11 Parliaments (27), 10 Parliaments (49), 9 Parliaments (78), 8 Parliaments (123), 7 Parliaments (214), 6 Parliaments (262), 5 Parliaments (376), 4 Parliaments (441), 3 Parliaments (498), 2 Parliaments (556) and 1 Parliament only (656).
Of those elected on 7 May 2015: 4 have sat in 12 Parliaments (Clarke, Kaufman, Meacher and Skinner), 1 in 11 (Haselhurst), 3 in 10 (Peter Bottomley, Geoffrey Robinson and David Winnick), 4 in 9 (Margaret Beckett, Frank field, Harriet Harman and Barry Sheerman), 12 in 8, 20 in 7, 30 in 6, 59 in 5, 49 in 4, 90 in 3, 201 in 2, with 177 are sitting in their first.
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Post by iain on May 17, 2015 15:17:34 GMT
Of the current Lib Dem MPs:
1 was first elected in 1997
3 were first elected in 2001
4 were first elected in 2005
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Post by mrhell on May 17, 2015 18:00:14 GMT
Of the current Lib Dem MPs: 1 was first elected in 1997 3 were first elected in 2001 4 were first elected in 2005 I was trying to think of this but I couldn't remember offhand when Carmichael was elected. Blimey, Tom Brake is our longest serving MP. |
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Post by mick745 on May 30, 2015 12:53:14 GMT
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Post by mick745 on Jul 24, 2015 21:43:38 GMT
Of the 2,929 newly elected 'debut' MPs since 1945, 2,530 entered via a General Election win (86.4%) and 396 (13.5%) via a By-Election victory. The other three entered Parliament after electoral petitions.
Since 1997 908 new MPs have sat - 858 via a General Election victory (94.5%)and 50 via a By-Election victory (5.5%).
39 debut Members have failed to make it to the dissolution of their first parliament, for various reasons, including death or disqualification, the most recent examples (since 1992) being Louise Mensch (Corby), Peter Law (Blaenau Gwent), Paul Daisley (Brent East), Jimmy Boyce (Rotherham), Stephen Milligan (Eastleigh) and Judith Chaplin (Newbury).
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Post by mick745 on Jul 26, 2015 21:02:41 GMT
I have now reached the 1922-1923 Parliament (working backwards) and it has occurred to me that I have now done around half of the Parliaments since 1832 so I am going to keep going for now. Although I am finding it tougher now as I am less familiar with the names. Also retreading was far more common in the 1920s and 1930s complexing matters further. The number of MPs since 1922 stands at 4,664.
I believe I have captured all retreads since 1945 now, I don't believe any members who left the Commons prior to 1922 came back in 1945 or later.
The fewest number of new MPs returned at any election in this period was 36 in October 1974, when 589 Members at dissolution were returned.
The most number of new MPs was in 1945 when 324 were first timers. More than 200 debutants is unusual only happening in 1997 (243) and 2010 (227).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2015 22:00:01 GMT
According to my calculations, out of the 63 64 female Labour MPs who were first elected in 1997 and featured in the famous Blair Babes photograph, 10 11 are still in the House of Commons.
26 of them have retired; 28 lost their seats, one of whom became a retread (Joan Ryan of Enfield North). One has died (Fiona Jones).
By far and away the most impressive survivor is Gisela Stuart of Birmingham Edgbaston. Most of the other nine ten survivors represent seats that were never going to be lost, one potential exception being Karen Buck in Westminster North. Sandra Osborne may well have lost her seat ten years earlier had the old Ayr constituency been left intact.
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