List of MPs elected in the 1970 United Kingdom general election
| 43rd Parliament | (1964) |
| 44th Parliament | (1966) |
| 45th Parliament | (1970) |
| 46th Parliament | (February 1974) |
| 47th Parliament | (October 1974) |
Composition
These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1970 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 | 330 | |
| Labour Party | 288 | |
| Liberal Party | 6 | |
| Scottish National Party | 1 | |
| Unity | 2 | |
| Protestant Unionist Party | 1 | |
| Republican Labour Party | 1 | |
| Independent Labour | 1 | |
| Total | 630 | |
| Effective Government Majority | 31 | |
This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 45th Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1970 general election held on 18 June 1970.
Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included John Prescott, Norman Tebbit, Ian Paisley, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, Kenneth Clarke, John Gummer, Alan Haselhurst, Dennis Skinner, and Gerald Kaufman.
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By-elections
- See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.
See also
- Category:UK MPs 1970-1974
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