List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_1970_United_Kingdom_general_election
This is a list of members of Parliament elected at the 1970 general election, held on 18 June.
| 1970–February 1974 Parliament of the United Kingdom | |||||
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Palace of Westminster in 1973 | |||||
| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||||
| Term | 18 June 1970 (1970-06-18) – 12 March 1974 (1974-03-12) | ||||
| Election | 1970 United Kingdom general election | ||||
| Government | Heath ministry | ||||
| House of Commons | |||||
| Members | 630 | ||||
| Speaker | Horace King Selwyn Lloyd | ||||
| Leader | William Whitelaw Robert Carr Jim Prior | ||||
| Prime Minister | Edward Heath | ||||
| Leader of the Opposition | Harold Wilson | ||||
| Third-party leader | Jeremy Thorpe | ||||
| House of Lords | |||||
| Lord Chancellor | Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone | ||||
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These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1970 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 | 330 | |
| Labour Party | 288 | |
| Liberal Party | 6 | |
| Scottish National Party | 1 | |
| Unity | 2 | |
| Protestant Unionist Party | 1 | |
| Republican Labour Party | 1 | |
| Independent Labour | 1 | |
| Total | 630 | |
| Effective government majority | 31 | |
This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1970 general election held on 18 June.
Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included John Prescott, Norman Tebbit, Ian Paisley, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, Kenneth Clarke, John Gummer, Alan Haselhurst, Dennis Skinner, and Gerald Kaufman.
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- See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.