1983–1987 Parliament of the United Kingdom | |||||
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![]() Palace of Westminster in 1983 | |||||
Overview | |||||
Legislative body | Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||||
Term | 9 June 1983 – 11 June 1987 | ||||
Election | 1983 United Kingdom general election | ||||
Government | Second Thatcher ministry | ||||
House of Commons | |||||
Members | 650 | ||||
Speaker | Bernard Weatherill | ||||
Leader | John Biffen | ||||
Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher | ||||
Leader of the Opposition | Michael Foot Neil Kinnock | ||||
Third-party leader | David Steel & Roy Jenkins | ||||
House of Lords | |||||
Lord Chancellor | Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone |
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected in the 1983 general election, held on 9 June. This Parliament was dissolved in 1987.
During 1983–1987 Bernard Weatherill was the speaker, Margaret Thatcher served as Prime Minister, Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock served as Leaders of the Opposition.
These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1983 general election.
Note: The Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru sit together as a party group, while Sinn Féin has not taken its seats. 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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Conservative Party | 397 | |
Labour Party | 209 | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance | 23 (6 + 17) | |
Ulster Unionist Party | 11 | |
Democratic Unionist Party | 3 | |
Plaid Cymru | 2 | |
Scottish National Party | 2 | |
Social Democratic and Labour Party | 1 | |
Sinn Féin | 1 | |
Ulster Popular Unionist Party | 1 | |
Total | 650 | |
Notional Government Majority | 144 | |
Effective Government Majority | 151 |
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.
Two seats were vacant when Parliament was dissolved preparatory to the 1987 general election:
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