List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies represented by sitting Prime Ministers
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This is a chronological list of parliamentary constituencies in the Kingdom of Great Britain and its successor state the United Kingdom which were represented by sitting Prime Ministers.
All the constituencies are or were (in the case of those abolished) in England apart from three in Wales and six in Scotland.
Name of constituency | Prime Minister name | Portrait | Start | End | Notes |
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King's Lynn | Sir Robert Walpole | 4 April 1721 | 11 February 1742 | Regarded as the first Prime Minister in the modern sense | |
None | Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington | 16 February 1742 | 2 July 1743 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Sussex | Henry Pelham | 27 August 1743 | 6 March 1754 | ||
None | The Duke of Newcastle | 60px | 16 March 1754 | 16 November 1756 | Prime Minister in House of Lords |
None | The Duke of Devonshire | 16 November 1756 | 25 June 1757 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
None | The Duke of Newcastle | 60px | 2 July 1757 | 26 May 1762 | Prime Minister in House of Lords |
None | The Earl of Bute | 26 May 1762 | 8 April 1763 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Buckingham | George Grenville | 16 April 1763 | 13 July 1765 | ||
None | The Marquess of Rockingham | 60px | 13 July 1765 | 30 July 1766 | Prime Minister in House of Lords |
Bath | The Earl of Chatham, "William Pitt the Elder" | 30 July 1766 | 4 August 1766 | Pitt "kissed hands" as a commoner on 30 July 1766. He chose to become Lord Privy Seal, and was created Earl of Chatham on 4 August 1766. | |
None | The Earl of Chatham, "William Pitt the Elder" | 4 August 1766 | 14 October 1768 | See previous entry. Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
None | The Duke of Grafton | 14 October 1768 | 28 January 1770 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Banbury | Lord North | 28 January 1770 | 22 March 1782 | ||
None | The Marquess of Rockingham | 60px | 27 March 1782 | 1 July 1782 | Prime Minister in House of Lords |
None | The Earl of Shelburne | 4 July 1782 | 2 April 1783 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
None | The Duke of Portland | 2 April 1783 | 19 December 1783 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Appleby | William Pitt the Younger | 19 December 1783 | 3 April 1784 | ||
Cambridge University | William Pitt the Younger | 3 April 1784 | 14 March 1801 | Chose to stand for different constituency | |
Devizes | Henry Addington | 60px | 17 March 1801 | 10 May 1804 | |
Cambridge University | William Pitt the Younger | 10 May 1804 | 23 January 1806 | ||
None | The Lord Grenville | 11 February 1806 | 31 March 1807 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
None | The Duke of Portland | 31 March 1807 | 4 October 1809 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Northampton | Spencer Perceval | 4 October 1809 | 11 May 1812 | ||
None | The Earl of Liverpool | 8 June 1812 | 9 April 1827 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Seaford | George Canning | 10 April 1827 | 8 August 1827 | ||
None | The Viscount Goderich | 60px | 31 August 1827 | 21 January 1828 | Prime Minister in House of Lords |
None | The Duke of Wellington | 22 January 1828 | 16 November 1830 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
None | The Earl Grey | 22 November 1830 | 9 July 1834 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
None | The Viscount Melbourne | 16 July 1834 | 14 November 1834 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
None | The Duke of Wellington | 14 November 1834 | 10 December 1834 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Tamworth | Sir Robert Peel | 10 December 1834 | 8 April 1835 | ||
None | The Viscount Melbourne | 18 April 1835 | 30 August 1841 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Tamworth | Sir Robert Peel | 30 August 1841 | 29 June 1846 | ||
City of London | The Lord John Russell (afterwards PM as Earl Russell) |
30 June 1846 | 21 February 1852 | ||
None | The Earl of Derby | 23 February 1852 | 17 December 1852 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
None | The Earl of Aberdeen | 19 December 1852 | 30 January 1855 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Tiverton | The Viscount Palmerston | 6 February 1855 | 19 February 1858 | ||
None | The Earl of Derby | 20 February 1858 | 11 June 1859 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Tiverton | The Viscount Palmerston | 12 June 1859 | 18 October 1865 | ||
None | The Earl Russell (previously PM as Lord John Russell) |
29 October 1865 | 26 June 1866 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
None | The Earl of Derby | 28 June 1866 | 25 February 1868 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Buckinghamshire | Benjamin Disraeli | 27 February 1868 | 1 December 1868 | ||
Greenwich | William Ewart Gladstone | 3 December 1868 | 17 February 1874 | ||
Buckinghamshire | Benjamin Disraeli | 20 February 1874 | 21 August 1876 | Disraeli became Earl of Beaconsfield on 21 August 1876. | |
None | Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield | 21 August 1876 | 21 April 1880 | See previous entry. Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Midlothian | William Ewart Gladstone | 23 April 1880 | 9 June 1885 | ||
None | The Marquess of Salisbury | 23 June 1885 | 28 January 1886 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Midlothian | William Ewart Gladstone | 1 February 1886 | 20 July 1886 | ||
None | The Marquess of Salisbury | 25 July 1886 | 11 August 1892 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Midlothian | William Ewart Gladstone | 15 August 1892 | 2 March 1894 | ||
None | The Earl of Rosebery | 5 March 1894 | 22 June 1895 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
None | The Marquess of Salisbury | 25 June 1895 | 11 July 1902 | Prime Minister in House of Lords | |
Manchester East | Arthur Balfour | 11 July 1902 | 5 December 1905 | ||
Stirling Burghs | Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman | 5 December 1905 | 7 April 1908 | ||
Fife East | H. H. Asquith | 7 April 1908 | 7 December 1916 | ||
Caernarvon Boroughs | David Lloyd George | 7 December 1916 | 19 October 1922 | ||
Glasgow Central | Bonar Law | 60px | 23 October 1922 | 20 May 1923 | |
Bewdley | Stanley Baldwin | 23 May 1923 | 16 January 1924 | ||
Aberavon | Ramsay MacDonald | 60px | 22 January 1924 | 4 November 1924 | |
Bewdley | Stanley Baldwin | 4 November 1924 | 5 June 1929 | ||
Seaham | Ramsay MacDonald | 60px | 5 June 1929 | 7 June 1935 | |
Bewdley | Stanley Baldwin | 7 June 1935 | 28 May 1937 | ||
Birmingham Edgbaston | Neville Chamberlain | 28 May 1937 | 10 May 1940 | ||
Epping | Winston Churchill | 10 May 1940 | 27 July 1945 | ||
Limehouse | Clement Attlee | 27 July 1945 | 23 February 1950 | Constituency abolished effective with the 1950 general election | |
Walthamstow West | Clement Attlee | 23 February 1950 | 26 October 1951 | ||
Woodford | Winston Churchill | 26 October 1951 | 6 April 1955 | ||
Warwick and Leamington | Sir Anthony Eden | 6 April 1955 | 10 January 1957 | ||
Bromley | Harold Macmillan | 10 January 1957 | 19 October 1963 | ||
None | Alec Douglas-Home | 60px | 19 October 1963 | 8 November 1963 | Douglas-Home was the Earl of Home when he became Prime Minister and renounced his peerage four days later to stand for the House of Commons. Elected in by-election, 8 November 1963 |
Kinross and Western Perthshire | Alec Douglas-Home | 60px | 8 November 1963 | 16 October 1964 | |
Huyton | Harold Wilson | 60px | 16 October 1964 | 19 June 1970 | |
Bexley | Edward Heath | 19 June 1970 | 28 February 1974 | Constituency abolished effective with February 1974 General Election. | |
Sidcup | Edward Heath | 28 February 1974 | 4 March 1974 | Heath was elected for Sidcup and did not resign as Prime Minister for several days while he attempted to form a coalition. | |
Huyton | Harold Wilson | 60px | 4 March 1974 | 5 April 1976 | |
Cardiff South East | James Callaghan | 5 April 1976 | 4 May 1979 | ||
Finchley | Margaret Thatcher | 4 May 1979 | 28 November 1990 | ||
Huntingdon | John Major | 28 November 1990 | 2 May 1997 | ||
Sedgefield | Tony Blair | 60px | 2 May 1997 | 27 June 2007 | |
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | Gordon Brown | 27 June 2007 | 11 May 2010 | ||
Witney | David Cameron | 11 May 2010 | Incumbent |