List_of_United_Kingdom_MPs_with_the_shortest_service

List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service

List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service

List of MPs

This is an annotated list of the Members of the United Kingdom Parliament since 1900 having total service of less than 365 days.

Nominal service is the number of days that elapsed between the Declaration (or deemed election) and the date of death, defeat, disqualification, resignation or other cause of termination.

Effective service is the number of days elapsed between taking the Oath as a Member of Parliament (if the Member did so) and the date of death, resignation, disqualification or dissolution of Parliament. In other words, this number is the maximum number of days the Member could have sat in Parliament, whether or not they actually did so.

This list includes Irish Republican MPs who were elected but did not serve in the House of Commons due to their abstentionist policy.

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Notes

  1. Higgins died hours before his declaration on 26 January 1906 and was declared elected posthumously.
  2. Polling took place on 5 July 1945, but results were not declared until 26 July.
  3. Polling took place on 14 December 1918, but results were not declared until 28 December.
  4. Anderson took his seat, but never spoke, asked a question, or voted.
  5. Gordon never spoke, asked a question, or voted. In March 1919 he was appointed to the Scottish Standing Committee, but died two days later.
  6. McCan was in prison at the time of his death but as an abstentionist would not have taken his seat, had he been free to do so.
  7. Dumphreys never spoke or asked a written question, but he voted in 19 divisions.
  8. Mathew never made a formal maiden speech, although he made several interventions, notably on 28 November 1922, when he challenged the Prime Minister, Bonar Law, over Unemployment. He also voted in 18 divisions.
  9. MacDonald was a member of the Scottish Parliament from 1999 until her death in 2014.
  10. Dodds was elected to the Welsh Parliament in 2021.
  11. McIntyre holds the record for the most attempts by a former MP to return to the Commons.
  12. Anderson never spoke or asked a question, but he voted in 12 divisions.
  13. The precise date of Williamson's taking of the Oath is not recorded; it probably occurred on 14/15 February 1906. Williamson spoke once in Parliament, to ask that "The Question be now put", but was overruled by the Speaker. He voted in several divisions.
  14. The precise date of St. Maur's taking of the Oath is not recorded; it occurred in late February 1911.
  15. The precise date of O'Sullivan's taking of the Oath is not recorded; it occurred in late February 1910.
  16. Cawley took his seat, but never spoke, asked a question, or voted.
  17. The precise date of Frewen's taking of the Oath is not recorded; it probably occurred in late February 1911.
  18. McElduff was an abstentionist
  19. West was the only member of the March–October 1974 Parliament who did not serve in any other Parliament.

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