List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom
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This is a listing of sessions of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, tabulated with the elections to the House of Commons for each session, and the list of members of the House.
The sessions are numbered from the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. For previous Westminster parliaments, see List of Parliaments of Great Britain.
| Number | Start date | Election | Members | Prime Minister(s) | Party |
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| 1st | 1802 | election | MPs | Henry Addington, William Pitt the Younger | Tory |
| 2nd | 1806 | election | MPs | William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville | Whig |
| 3rd | 1807 | election | MPs | William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Spencer Perceval, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool | Tory |
| 4th | 1812 | election | MPs | The Earl of Liverpool | Tory |
| 5th | 1818 | election | MPs | The Earl of Liverpool | Tory |
| 6th | 1820 | election | MPs | The Earl of Liverpool | Tory |
| 7th | 1826 | election | MPs | The Earl of Liverpool, George Canning, Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Tory |
| 8th | 1830 | election | MPs | Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey | Whig |
| 9th | 1831 | election | MPs | The Earl Grey | Whig |
| 10th | 1832 | election | MPs | The Earl Grey, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Robert Peel | Whig |
| 11th | 1835 | election | MPs | William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | Whig |
| 12th | 1837 | election | MPs | The Viscount Melbourne | Whig |
| 13th | 1841 | election | MPs | Sir Robert Peel, Bt | Conservative |
| 14th | 1847 | election | MPs | The Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell | Whig |
| 15th | 1852 | election | MPs | Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen | Conservative |
| 16th | 1857 | election | MPs | Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Earl of Derby | Whig |
| 17th | 1859 | election | MPs | The Viscount Palmerston | Liberal |
| 18th | 1865 | election | MPs | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, The Earl of Derby, Benjamin Disraeli | Liberal |
| 19th | 1868 | election | MPs | William Ewart Gladstone | |
| 20th | 1874 | election | MPs | Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield | Conservative |
| 21st | 1880 | election | MPs | William Ewart Gladstone | Liberal |
| 22nd | 1885 | election | MPs | Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, William Ewart Gladstone | |
| 23rd | 1886 | election | MPs | The Marquess of Salisbury | Conservative |
| 24th | 1892 | election | MPs | William Ewart Gladstone, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | Liberal |
| 25th | 1895 | election | MPs | Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Conservative |
| 26th | 1900 | election | MPs | The Marquess of Salisbury, Arthur Balfour | Conservative |
| 27th | 1906 | election | MPs | Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Herbert Henry Asquith | Liberal |
| 28th | 1910 (Jan) | election | MPs | Herbert Henry Asquith | Liberal |
| 29th | 1910 (Dec) | election | MPs | Herbert Henry Asquith, David Lloyd George | Liberal |
| 30th | 1918 | election | MPs | David Lloyd George | Coalition |
| 31st | 1922 | election | MPs | Andrew Bonar Law | Conservative |
| 32nd | 1923 | election | MPs | Stanley Baldwin | Conservative |
| 33rd | 1924 | election | MPs | Stanley Baldwin | Conservative |
| 34th | 1929 | election | MPs | Ramsay MacDonald | Labour |
| 35th | 1931 | election | MPs | Ramsay MacDonald | National Government |
| 36th | 1935 | election | MPs | Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill | National Government |
| 37th | 1945 | election | MPs | Clement Attlee | Labour |
| 38th | 1950 | election | MPs | Clement Attlee | Labour |
| 39th | 1951 | election | MPs | Winston Churchill | Conservative |
| 40th | 1955 | election | MPs | Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan | Conservative |
| 41st | 1959 | election | MPs | Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home | Conservative |
| 42nd | 1964 | election | MPs | Harold Wilson | Labour |
| 43rd | 1966 | election | MPs | Harold Wilson | Labour |
| 44th | 1970 | election | MPs | Edward Heath | Conservative |
| 45th | 1974 (Feb) | election | MPs | Harold Wilson | Labour |
| 46th | 1974 (Oct) | election | MPs | Harold Wilson, James Callaghan | Labour |
| 47th | 1979 | election | MPs | Margaret Thatcher | Conservative |
| 48th | 1983 | election | MPs | Margaret Thatcher | Conservative |
| 49th | 1987 | election | MPs | Margaret Thatcher, John Major | Conservative |
| 50th | 1992 | election | MPs | John Major | Conservative |
| 51st | 1997 | election | MPs | Tony Blair | Labour |
| 52nd | 2001 | election | MPs | Tony Blair | Labour |
| 53rd | 2005 | election | MPs | Tony Blair | Labour |
The parties listed are those that won the election. During the nineteenth century, the party of government sometimes changed between general elections.