56th Parliament of the United Kingdom
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| Election | United Kingdom general election, 2015 | ||||
| Government |
May ministry —Second Cameron ministry – until 13 July 2016 |
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| House of Commons | |||||
| Members | 650 | ||||
| Speaker | John Bercow | ||||
| Leader |
David Lidington — Chris Grayling – until 14 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister |
Theresa May — David Cameron – until 13 July 2016 |
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| Leader of the Opposition |
Jeremy Corbyn — Harriet Harman – acting until 12 September 2015 |
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| Third-party leader | Angus Robertson | ||||
| House of Lords | |||||
| Members | 780 | ||||
| Lord Speaker |
The Lord Fowler — The Baroness D'Souza – until 31 August 2016 |
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| Leader |
The Baroness Evans of Bowes Park — The Baroness Stowell of Beeston – until 14 July 2016 |
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| Leader of the Opposition | The Baroness Smith of Basildon | ||||
| Third-party leader | The Lord Wallace of Tankerness | ||||
| Crown-in-Parliament | Queen Elizabeth II | ||||
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| 1st | 27 May 2015 – 12 May 2016 |
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| 2nd | 18 May 2016 – |
The fifty-sixth Parliament of the United Kingdom is the legislature of the United Kingdom following the 2015 general election of Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons. Parliament, which consists of the House of Lords and the elected House of Commons, was convened on 27 May 2015 at the Palace of Westminster by Queen Elizabeth II.
The election saw each of Parliament's 650 constituencies return one MP to the House of Commons. It resulted in a Conservative majority, a massive loss of seats for the Liberal Democrats, and all but three Scottish seats going to the SNP.
UKIP won its first seat at a general election. Alliance and Respect each had their representation from the last Parliament wiped out. The UUP won representation after none in the previous Parliament.
Below is a graphical representation of the House of Commons showing a comparison of party strengths as it was directly after the 2015 general election. This is not a 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.
This table shows the number of MPs in each party:
The following table is a list of MPs elected, ordered by constituency. Names of incumbents are listed where they stood for re-election; for details of defeated new candidates and the incumbent who stood down in those cases see individual constituency articles.
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