List of MPs elected in the 1979 United Kingdom general election information
1979–1983 Parliament of the United Kingdom
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Overview
Legislative body
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Term
3 June 1979 (1979-06-03) – 9 June 1983 (1983-06-09)
Election
1979 United Kingdom general election
Government
First Thatcher ministry
House of Commons
Members
635
Speaker
George Thomas
Leader
Norman St John-Stevas Francis Pym John Biffen
Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher
Leader of the Opposition
James Callaghan Michael Foot
Third-party leader
David Steel
House of Lords
Lord Chancellor
Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected in the 1979 general election, held on 3 May. This Parliament was dissolved in 1983.
Parliament, which consists of the House of Lords and the elected House of Commons, was convened on Tuesday 15 May 1979 at the Palace of Westminster by Queen Elizabeth II.
This map shows by geography the colours each of the 635 constituencies of the 1979–1983 Parliament.
Of the 77 newcomers, two were women (Sheila Faith and Sheila Wright). In total, the Parliament had 19 female members (8 Conservative, 11 Labour), fewer than any post-war parliament before or since, with the sole exception of 1951.[1]
It was the election from which Margaret Thatcher, the incumbent Conservative Party leader became Prime Minister, the first female head of government in the United Kingdom and Europe.
^"Women MPS and parliamentary candidates since 1945 | UK Political Info".
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