List of MPs elected in the 1955 United Kingdom general election

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.

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

By nation

List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland (1955–1959) List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (1955–1959)

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.

This table shows the number of MPs in each party: Affiliation Members At 1955 election At dissolution● Conservative Party325325 Unionist Party3029 Ulster Unionist Party1012 Labour Party277281● National Liberal Party1917 Liberal Party66 Sinn Féin20 Speaker11  Total 630 630  Effective government majority 62 60

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