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List of MPs elected in the 1955 United Kingdom general election

List of MPs elected in the 1955 United Kingdom general election

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This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1955 general election, held on 26 May 1955. A total of 630 MPs were elected.

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Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included William Whitelaw and Geoffrey Rippon.

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Composition

These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1955 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
Conservative Party 345
Labour Party 277
Liberal Party 6
Sinn Féin 2
 Total 630
 Effective government majority 29
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By-elections

See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.

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