1964–1966 Parliament of the United Kingdom | |||||
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Overview | |||||
Legislative body | Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||||
Term | 16 October 1964 – 31 March 1966 | ||||
Election | 1964 United Kingdom general election | ||||
Government | First Wilson ministry | ||||
House of Commons | |||||
Members | 630 | ||||
Speaker | Harry Hylton-Foster Horace King | ||||
Leader | Herbert Bowden | ||||
Prime Minister | Harold Wilson | ||||
Leader of the Opposition | Sir Alec Douglas-Home Edward Heath | ||||
Third-party leader | Jo Grimond | ||||
House of Lords | |||||
Lord Chancellor | Baron Gardiner |
This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1964 general election, held on 15 October 1964.
Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included Geoffrey Howe, Roy Hattersley, Shirley Williams, Peter Shore, Robert Maxwell, Brian Walden, Alan Williams, Anthony Meyer, Alf Morris, George Younger and Bernard Weatherill.
These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1964 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.
Affiliation | Members | |
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Labour Party | 317 | |
Conservative Party* | 304 | |
Liberal Party | 9 | |
Total | 630 | |
Effective Government Majority | 4 |
Table of contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z By-elections |
See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.
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