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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.
A majority of constituencies are or were (in the case of those abolished) in England, apart from three in Wales and six in Scotland. No prime minister has represented a constituency in Ireland or Northern Ireland.
Constituency | County | Prime Minister | Portrait | Start | End | Notes | |
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King's Lynn | ![]() | Sir Robert Walpole | ![]() | 3 April 1721 | 6 February 1742 | Regarded as the first prime minister in the modern sense. Created Earl of Orford on 6 February 1742 | |
Earl of Orford | ![]() | The Earl of Orford | 6 February 1742 | 11 February 1742 | See previous entry. | ||
Earl of Wilmington | ![]() | The Earl of Wilmington | ![]() | 16 February 1742 | 2 July 1743 | ||
Sussex | ![]() | Henry Pelham | ![]() | 27 August 1743 | 6 March 1754 | ||
Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | ![]() | The Duke of Newcastle | ![]() | 16 March 1754 | 11 November 1756 | ||
Duke of Devonshire | ![]() | The Duke of Devonshire | | 16 November 1756 | 29 June 1757 | ||
Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | ![]() | The Duke of Newcastle | ![]() | 29 June 1757 | 26 May 1762 | ||
Representative Peer | ![]() | The Earl of Bute | ![]() | 26 May 1762 | 8 April 1763 | [note 1] | |
Buckingham | ![]() | George Grenville | ![]() | 16 April 1763 | 10 July 1765 | ||
Marquess of Rockingham | ![]() | The Marquess of Rockingham | ![]() | 13 July 1765 | 30 July 1766 | ||
Bath | ![]() | 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. | |
Earl of Chatham | ![]() | The Earl of Chatham | 4 August 1766 | 14 October 1768 | See previous entry. | ||
Duke of Grafton | ![]() | The Duke of Grafton | | 14 October 1768 | 28 January 1770 | ||
Banbury | ![]() | Lord North | ![]() | 28 January 1770 | 27 March 1782 | ||
Marquess of Rockingham | ![]() | The Marquess of Rockingham | ![]() | 27 March 1782 | 1 July 1782 | ||
Baron Wycombe | ![]() | The Earl of Shelburne | ![]() | 4 July 1782 | 26 March 1783 | [note 2] | |
Duke of Portland | ![]() | The Duke of Portland | ![]() | 2 April 1783 | 18 December 1783 | ||
Appleby | ![]() | William Pitt the Younger | ![]() | 19 December 1783 | 3 April 1784 | ||
Cambridge University | ![]() | 3 April 1784 | 14 March 1801 | Chose to stand for different constituency | |||
Devizes | ![]() | Henry Addington | ![]() | 17 March 1801 | 10 May 1804 | ||
Cambridge University | ![]() | William Pitt the Younger | ![]() | 10 May 1804 | 23 January 1806 | ||
Baron Grenville | ![]() | The Lord Grenville | ![]() | 11 February 1806 | 25 March 1807 | ||
Duke of Portland | ![]() | The Duke of Portland | ![]() | 31 March 1807 | 4 October 1809 | ||
Northampton | ![]() | Spencer Perceval | ![]() | 4 October 1809 | 11 May 1812 | Perceval was shot and killed in the lobby of the House of Commons. He is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated. | |
Earl of Liverpool | ![]() | The Earl of Liverpool | ![]() | 8 June 1812 | 9 April 1827 | ||
Seaford | ![]() | George Canning | ![]() | 20 April 1827 | 8 August 1827 | Chose to stand for different constituency | |
Viscount Goderich | ![]() | The Viscount Goderich | ![]() | 31 August 1827 | 8 January 1828 | ||
Duke of Wellington | ![]() | The Duke of Wellington | ![]() | 22 January 1828 | 16 November 1830 | ||
Earl Grey | ![]() | The Earl Grey | ![]() | 22 November 1830 | 9 July 1834 | ||
Baron Melbourne | ![]() | The Viscount Melbourne | ![]() | 16 July 1834 | 14 November 1834 | [note 2] | |
Duke of Wellington | ![]() | The Duke of Wellington | ![]() | 17 November 1834 | 9 December 1834 | ||
Tamworth | ![]() | Sir Robert Peel, Bt. | ![]() | 10 December 1834 | 8 April 1835 | ||
Baron Melbourne | ![]() | The Viscount Melbourne | ![]() | 18 April 1835 | 30 August 1841 | [note 2] | |
Tamworth | ![]() | Sir Robert Peel, Bt. | ![]() | 30 August 1841 | 29 June 1846 | ||
City of London | ![]() | Lord John Russell | ![]() | 30 June 1846 | 21 February 1852 | Later created Earl Russell on 27 July 1861 | |
Earl of Derby | ![]() | The Earl of Derby | ![]() | 23 February 1852 | 17 December 1852 | ||
Viscount Gordon | ![]() | The Earl of Aberdeen | ![]() | 19 December 1852 | 30 January 1855 | [note 1] | |
Tiverton | ![]() | The Viscount Palmerston | ![]() | 6 February 1855 | 19 February 1858 | ||
Earl of Derby | ![]() | The Earl of Derby | ![]() | 20 February 1858 | 11 June 1859 | ||
Tiverton | ![]() | The Viscount Palmerston | ![]() | 12 June 1859 | 18 October 1865 | ||
Earl Russell | ![]() | The Earl Russell | ![]() | 29 October 1865 | 26 June 1866 | Previously Lord John Russell. | |
Earl of Derby | ![]() | The Earl of Derby | ![]() | 28 June 1866 | 25 February 1868 | ||
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 | Created Earl of Beaconsfield on 21 August 1876 | |
Earl of Beaconsfield | ![]() | The Earl of Beaconsfield | 21 August 1876 | 21 April 1880 | See previous entry. | ||
Midlothian | ![]() | William Ewart Gladstone | ![]() | 23 April 1880 | 9 June 1885 | ||
Marquess of Salisbury | ![]() | The Marquess of Salisbury | ![]() | 23 June 1885 | 28 January 1886 | ||
Midlothian | ![]() | William Ewart Gladstone | ![]() | 1 February 1886 | 20 July 1886 | ||
Marquess of Salisbury | ![]() | The Marquess of Salisbury | ![]() | 25 July 1886 | 11 August 1892 | ||
Midlothian | ![]() | William Ewart Gladstone | ![]() | 15 August 1892 | 2 March 1894 | ||
Baron Rosebery | ![]() | The Earl of Rosebery | ![]() | 5 March 1894 | 22 June 1895 | [note 1] | |
Marquess of Salisbury | ![]() | The Marquess of Salisbury | ![]() | 25 June 1895 | 11 July 1902 | ||
Manchester East | ![]() | Arthur Balfour | ![]() | 12 July 1902 | 4 December 1905 | ||
Stirling Burghs | ![]() | Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman | ![]() | 5 December 1905 | 5 April 1908 | ||
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Fife East | ![]() | H. H. Asquith | ![]() | 5 April 1908 | 5 December 1916 | ||
Caernarvon Boroughs | ![]() | David Lloyd George | ![]() | 6 December 1916 | 19 October 1922 | ||
Glasgow Central | ![]() | Bonar Law | ![]() | 23 October 1922 | 20 May 1923 | ||
Bewdley | ![]() | Stanley Baldwin | ![]() | 22 May 1923 | 22 January 1924 | ||
Aberavon | ![]() | Ramsay MacDonald | ![]() | 22 January 1924 | 4 November 1924 | ||
Bewdley | ![]() | Stanley Baldwin | ![]() | 4 November 1924 | 4 June 1929 | ||
Seaham | ![]() | Ramsay MacDonald | ![]() | 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 | 5 July 1945 | Constituency abolished effective with 1945 general election | |
Woodford | ![]() | 5 July 1945 | 26 July 1945 | ||||
Limehouse | ![]() | Clement Attlee | ![]() | 26 July 1945 | 23 February 1950 | Constituency abolished effective with 1950 general election | |
Walthamstow West | ![]() | 23 February 1950 | 26 October 1951 | ||||
Woodford | ![]() | Sir Winston Churchill | ![]() | 26 October 1951 | 5 April 1955 | ||
Warwick and Leamington | ![]() | Sir Anthony Eden | ![]() | 6 April 1955 | 9 January 1957 | ||
Bromley | ![]() | Harold Macmillan | ![]() | 10 January 1957 | 18 October 1963 | ||
Earl of Home | ![]() | Alec Douglas-Home | ![]() | 19 October 1963 | 22 October 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. | |
Prime minister outside Parliament | Alec Douglas-Home | 23 October 1963 | 7 November 1963 | Douglas-Home was in neither House of Parliament and during an active parliament, briefly for twenty days. He was elected in by-election on 8 November 1963, but did not take his seat until 12 November. | |||
Kinross and Western Perthshire | ![]() | 8 November 1963 | 16 October 1964 | ||||
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Huyton | ![]() | Harold Wilson | ![]() | 16 October 1964 | 19 June 1970 | ||
Bexley | ![]() | Edward Heath | ![]() | 19 June 1970 | 28 February 1974 | Constituency abolished effective with February 1974 general election | |
Sidcup | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 2 May 1997 | 27 June 2007 | ||
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | ![]() | Gordon Brown | ![]() | 27 June 2007 | 11 May 2010 | ||
Witney | ![]() | David Cameron | ![]() | 11 May 2010 | 13 July 2016 | ||
Maidenhead | ![]() | Theresa May | ![]() | 13 July 2016 | 24 July 2019 | ||
Uxbridge and South Ruislip | ![]() | Boris Johnson | ![]() | 24 July 2019 | 6 September 2022 | Had previously served as MP for Henley | |
South West Norfolk | ![]() | Liz Truss | ![]() | 6 September 2022 | 25 October 2022 | ||
Richmond (Yorks) | ![]() | Rishi Sunak | ![]() | 25 October 2022 | 4 July 2024 | Constituency abolished effective with 2024 general election | |
Richmond and Northallerton | 4 July 2024 | 5 July 2024 | Sunak was elected for Richmond and Northallerton and resigned as prime minister the next day. | ||||
Holborn and St Pancras | ![]() | Sir Keir Starmer | ![]() | 5 July 2024 | Incumbent |