List of MPs elected in the 1959 United Kingdom general election
| 40th Parliament | (1951) |
| 41st Parliament | (1955) |
| 42nd Parliament | (1959) |
| 43rd Parliament | (1964) |
| 44th Parliament | (1966) |
Composition
These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties at the 1959 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 | 365 | |
| Labour Party | 258 | |
| Liberal Party | 6 | |
| Independent Conservative | 1 | |
| Total | 630 | |
| Effective Government Majority | 49 | |
This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1959 general election, held on 8 October 1959.
Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included: Margaret Thatcher, Nicholas Ridley, Jim Prior, Peter Tapsell, John Morris and Jeremy Thorpe. It was also the final election in which Winston Churchill, then aged 84, stood as a candidate. Tapsell retired from Parliament 56 years later at the 2015 general election.
By-elections
See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.
See also
- List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom
- UK general election, 1959
- Category:UK MPs 1959-1964