List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom

This is a list of Parliaments of the United Kingdom, tabulated with the elections to the House of Commons and the list of members of the House.

The Parliaments are numbered from the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. For previous Westminster parliaments, see the list of Parliaments of Great Britain and list of Parliaments of England. For pre-Union Dublin parliaments, see the list of Parliaments of Ireland. For pre-1707 Scottish parliaments, see the list of Parliaments of Scotland.

Monarch	Number	Start date	Election	Members	Prime Minister(s)	Party	Percentage of popular vote
George III	1st	1801	none: co-opted		William Pitt the Younger, Henry Addington	Tory
	2nd	1802	election	MPs	Henry Addington, William Pitt the Younger	Tory
	3rd	1806	election	MPs	William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville	Whig
	4th	1807	election	MPs	William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Spencer Perceval, The Earl of Liverpool	Tory
	5th	1812	election	MPs	The Earl of Liverpool	Tory
	6th	1818	election	MPs	The Earl of Liverpool	Tory
George IV	7th	1820	election	MPs	The Earl of Liverpool	Tory
	8th	1826	election	MPs	The Earl of Liverpool, George Canning, Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington	Tory
William IV	9th	1830	election	MPs	Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey	Whig
	10th	1831	election	MPs	The Earl Grey	Whig
	11th	1832	election	MPs	The Earl Grey, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Robert Peel	Whig	67.0
	12th	1835	election	MPs	William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne	Whig	55.2
Victoria	13th	1837	election	MPs	William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne	Whig	51.7
	14th	1841	election	MPs	Sir Robert Peel, Bt	Conservative	56.9
	15th	1847	election	MPs	The Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell	Whig	53.8
	16th	1852	election	MPs	Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen	Conservative	41.9
	17th	1857	election	MPs	Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Earl of Derby	Whig	65.9
	18th	1859	election	MPs	The Viscount Palmerston	Liberal	65.7
	19th	1865	election	MPs	John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, The Earl of Derby, Benjamin Disraeli	Liberal	59.5
	20th	1868	election	MPs	William Ewart Gladstone	Liberal	61.5
	21st	1874	election	MPs	Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield	Conservative	44.3
	22nd	1880	election	MPs	William Ewart Gladstone	Liberal	54.7
	23rd	1885	election	MPs	Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, William Ewart Gladstone	Liberal (minority)	47.4
	24th	1886	election	MPs	The Marquess of Salisbury	Conservative	51.1
	25th	1892	election	MPs	William Ewart Gladstone, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery	Liberal (minority)	45.4
	26th	1895	election	MPs	Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury	Conservative	49.0
	27th	1900	election	MPs	The Marquess of Salisbury, Arthur Balfour	Conservative	50.3
Edward VII
	28th	1906	election	MPs	Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Herbert Henry Asquith	Liberal	48.9
	29th	1910 (Jan)	election	MPs	Herbert Henry Asquith	Liberal (minority)	43.5
George V
	30th	1910 (Dec)	election	MPs	Herbert Henry Asquith, David Lloyd George	Liberal (minority)	43.2
	31st	1918	election	MPs	David Lloyd George	Coalition	47.1
	32nd	1922	election	MPs	Andrew Bonar Law	Conservative	38.5
	33rd	1923	election	MPs	Ramsay Macdonald	Labour (minority)	30.7
	34th	1924	election	MPs	Stanley Baldwin	Conservative	46.8
	35th	1929	election	MPs	Ramsay MacDonald	Labour (minority)	37.1
	36th	1931	election	MPs	Ramsay MacDonald	National Government	67.2
	37th	1935	election	MPs	Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill	National Government	53.3
Edward VIII
George VI
	38th	1945	election	MPs	Clement Attlee	Labour	49.7
	39th	1950	election	MPs	Clement Attlee	Labour	46.1
	40th	1951	election	MPs	Winston Churchill	Conservative	48.0
Elizabeth II
	41st	1955	election	MPs	Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan	Conservative	49.7
	42nd	1959	election	MPs	Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home	Conservative	49.4
	43rd	1964	election	MPs	Harold Wilson	Labour	44.1
	44th	1966	election	MPs	Harold Wilson	Labour	48.0
	45th	1970	election	MPs	Edward Heath	Conservative	46.4
	46th	1974 (Feb)	election	MPs	Harold Wilson	Labour (minority)	37.2
	47th	1974 (Oct)	election	MPs	Harold Wilson, James Callaghan	Labour	39.2
	48th	1979	election	MPs	Margaret Thatcher	Conservative	43.9
	49th	1983	election	MPs	Margaret Thatcher	Conservative	42.3
	50th	1987	election	MPs	Margaret Thatcher, John Major	Conservative	42.2
	51st	1992	election	MPs	John Major	Conservative	41.9
	52nd	1997	election	MPs	Tony Blair	Labour	43.2
	53rd	2001	election	MPs	Tony Blair	Labour	40.7
	54th	2005	election	MPs	Tony Blair, Gordon Brown	Labour	35.2
	55th	2010	election	MPs	David Cameron	Coalition	N/A (59.1; Conservatives: 36.1; Liberal Democrats: 23)
	56th	2015	election	MPs	David Cameron	Conservative	36.9

The parties listed are those that won the election. During the nineteenth century, the party of government sometimes changed between general elections.

Notes

• ^ The term Prime Minister was not officially recognised until Campbell-Bannerman, although the title had been in common use, often as an insult, since 1721.

See also

• Duration of English Parliaments before 1660
• Duration of English, British and United Kingdom Parliaments from 1660
• List of Parliaments of England
• List of Parliaments of Great Britain
• List of British Governments
• List of British ministries