List of MPs elected in the 1955 United Kingdom general election
| 1955–1959 Parliament of the United Kingdom | |||||
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 Palace of Westminster in 1955 | |||||
| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||||
| Term | 26 May 1955 – 16 October 1959 | ||||
| Election | 1955 United Kingdom general election | ||||
| Government | Eden ministry First Macmillan ministry | ||||
| House of Commons | |||||
| Members | 630 | ||||
| Speaker | William Morrison | ||||
| Leader | Harry Crookshank R. A. Butler | ||||
| Prime Minister | Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan | ||||
| Leader of the Opposition | Herbert Morrison Hugh Gaitskell | ||||
| Third-party leader | Clement Davies Jo Grimond | ||||
| House of Lords | |||||
| Lord Chancellor | Viscount Kilmuir | ||||
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.
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.
| Affiliation | Members | |
| Conservative Party | 345 | |
| Labour Party | 277 | |
| Liberal Party | 6 | |
| Sinn Féin | 2 | |
| Total | 630 | |
| Effective government majority | 29 | |
A[] | ||
| Constituency | MP | Party |
|---|---|---|
| Aberavon | William Cove | Labour |
| Aberdare | Arthur Probert | Labour |
| Aberdeen North | Hector Hughes | Labour |
| Aberdeen South | Lady Tweedsmuir | Conservative |
| Aberdeenshire East | Robert Boothby | Conservative |
| Aberdeenshire West | Henry Spence | Conservative |
| Abertillery | Llywelyn Williams | Labour |
| Abingdon | Airey Neave | Conservative |
| Accrington | Harry Hynd | Labour |
| Acton | Joseph Sparks | Labour |
| Aldershot | Eric Errington | Conservative |
| Altrincham and Sale | Frederick Erroll | Conservative |
| Anglesey | Cledwyn Hughes | Labour |
| Angus North and Mearns | Colin Thornton-Kemsley | Liberal & Conservative |
| Angus South | Capt. Sir James Duncan Bt. | Conservative |
| Antrim North | Hon. Phelim O'Neill | Ulster Unionist |
| Antrim South | Knox Cunningham | Ulster Unionist |
| Argyll | Duncan McCallum | Conservative |
| Armagh | C. W. Armstrong | Ulster Unionist |
| Arundel and Shoreham | Henry Kerby | Conservative |
| Ashfield | William Warbey | Labour |
| Ashford | Bill Deedes | Conservative |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | Hervey Rhodes | Labour |
| Aylesbury | Spencer Summers | Conservative |
| Ayr | Thomas Moore | Conservative |
| Ayrshire Central | Douglas Spencer-Nairn | Conservative |
| Ayrshire North and Bute | Charles MacAndrew | Conservative |
| Ayrshire South | Emrys Hughes | Labour |
B[] | ||
| Banbury | Douglas Dodds-Parker | Conservative |
| Banffshire | William Duthie | Conservative |
| Barking | Somerville Hastings | Labour |
| Barkston Ash | Leonard Ropner | Conservative |
| Barnet | Reginald Maudling | Conservative |
| Barnsley | Roy Mason | Labour |
| Barons Court | Thomas Williams | Labour |
| Barrow-in-Furness | Walter Monslow | Labour |
| Barry | Raymond Gower | Conservative |
| Basingstoke | Denzil Freeth | Conservative |
| Bassetlaw | Fred Bellenger | Labour |
| Bath | James Pitman | Conservative |
| Batley and Morley | Alfred Broughton | Labour |
| Battersea North | Douglas Jay | Labour |
| Battersea South | Ernest Partridge | Conservative |
| Bebington | Hendrie Oakshott | Conservative |
| Beckenham | Patrick Buchan-Hepburn | Conservative |
| Bedford | Christopher Soames | Conservative |
| Bedfordshire, Mid | Alan Lennox-Boyd | Conservative |
| Bedfordshire South | Norman Cole | Conservative |
| Bedwellty | Harold Finch | Labour |
| Belfast East | Alan McKibbin | Ulster Unionist |
| Belfast North | Montgomery Hyde | Ulster Unionist |
| Belfast South | David Campbell | Ulster Unionist |
| Belfast West | Patricia McLaughlin | Ulster Unionist |
| Belper | George Brown | Labour |
| Bermondsey | Bob Mellish | Labour |
| Berwick and East Lothian | William Anstruther-Gray | Conservative |
| Berwick upon Tweed | Antony Lambton | Conservative |
| Bethnal Green | Percy Holman | Labour |
| Bexley | Edward Heath | Conservative |
| Billericay | Richard Body | Conservative |
| Bilston | Robert Edwards | Labour |
| Birkenhead | Percy Collick | Labour |
| Birmingham All Saints | Denis Howell | Labour |
| Birmingham Aston | Julius Silverman | Labour |
| Birmingham Edgbaston | Edith Pitt | Conservative |
| Birmingham Hall Green | Aubrey Jones | Conservative |
| Birmingham Handsworth | Sir Edward Boyle | Conservative |
| Birmingham Ladywood | Victor Yates | Labour |
| Birmingham Northfield | Donald Chapman | Labour |
| Birmingham Perry Barr | Charles Howell | Labour |
| Birmingham Selly Oak | Harold Gurden | Conservative |
| Birmingham Small Heath | William Wheeldon | Labour |
| Birmingham Sparkbrook | Percy Shurmer | Labour |
| Birmingham Stechford | Roy Jenkins | Labour |
| Birmingham Yardley | Henry Usborne | Labour |
| Bishop Auckland | Hugh Dalton | Labour |
| Blackburn | Barbara Castle | Labour |
| Blackpool North | Toby Low | Conservative |
| Blackpool South | Roland Robinson | Conservative |
| Blaydon | William Whiteley | Labour |
| Blyth | Alfred Robens | Labour |
| Bodmin | Douglas Marshall | Conservative |
| Bolsover | Harold Neal | Labour |
| Bolton East | Philip Bell | Conservative |
| Bolton West | Arthur Holt | Liberal |
| Bootle | Simon Mahon | Labour |
| Bosworth | Arthur Allen | Labour |
| Bothwell | John Timmons | Labour |
| Bournemouth East and Christchurch | Nigel Nicolson | Conservative |
| Bournemouth West | John Eden | Conservative |
| Bradford East | Frank McLeavy | Labour |
| Bradford North | William Taylor | Conservative |
| Bradford South | George Craddock | Labour |
| Bradford West | Arthur Tiley | Conservative |
| Brecon and Radnor | Tudor Watkins | Labour |
| Brentford and Chiswick | Percy Lucas | Conservative |
| Bridgwater | Gerald Wills | Conservative |
| Bridlington | Hon. Richard Wood | Conservative |
| Brierley Hill | Charles Simmons | Labour |
| Brigg | Lance Mallalieu | Labour |
| Brighouse and Spenborough | John Edwards | Labour |
| Brighton Kemptown | Howard Johnson | Conservative |
| Brighton Pavilion | William Teeling | Conservative |
| Bristol Central | Stan Awbery | Labour |
| Bristol North East | William Coldrick | Labour |
| Bristol North West | Thomas Christopher Boyd | Labour |
| Bristol South | William A. Wilkins | Labour |
| Bristol South East | Tony Benn | Labour |
| Bristol West | Walter Monckton | Conservative |
| Brixton | Marcus Lipton | Labour |
| Bromley | Harold Macmillan | Conservative |
| Bromsgrove | James Dance | Conservative |
| Buckingham | Frank Markham | Conservative |
| Buckinghamshire South | Ronald Bell | Conservative |
| Burnley | Wilfrid Burke | Labour |
| Burton | John Jennings | Conservative |
| Bury and Radcliffe | John Bidgood | Conservative |
| Bury St Edmunds | William Aitken | Conservative |
C[] | ||
| Caernarfon | Goronwy Roberts | Labour |
| Caerphilly | Ness Edwards | Labour |
| Caithness and Sutherland | David Robertson | Conservative |
| Cambridge | Hamilton Kerr | Conservative |
| Cambridgeshire | Gerald Howard | Conservative |
| Cannock | Jennie Lee | Labour |
| Canterbury | Leslie Thomas | Conservative |
| Cardiff North | David Llewellyn | Conservative |
| Cardiff South East | James Callaghan | Labour |
| Cardiff West | George Thomas | Labour |
| Cardiganshire | Roderic Bowen | Liberal |
| Carlisle | Donald Johnson | Conservative |
| Carlton | Kenneth Pickthorn | Conservative |
| Carmarthen | Rhys Hopkin Morris | Liberal |
| Carshalton | Anthony Head | Conservative |
| Cheadle | William Shepherd | Conservative |
| Chelmsford | Hubert Ashton | Conservative |
| Chelsea | Allan Noble | Conservative |
| Cheltenham | William W. Hicks Beach | Conservative |
| Chertsey | Lionel Heald | Conservative |
| Chester, City of | Basil Nield | Conservative |
| Chesterfield | George Benson | Labour |
| Chester-le-Street | Patrick Bartley | Labour |
| Chichester | Lancelot Joynson-Hicks | Conservative |
| Chigwell | John Biggs-Davison | Conservative |
| Chippenham | David Eccles | Conservative |
| Chislehurst | Patricia Hornsby-Smith | Conservative |
| Chorley | Clifford Kenyon | Labour |
| Cirencester and Tewkesbury | William Morrison | Conservative |
| Cities of London and Westminster | H. Webbe | Conservative |
| Clapham | Charles Gibson | Labour |
| Cleveland | Arthur Palmer | Labour |
| Clitheroe | Richard Fort | Conservative |
| Coatbridge and Airdrie | Jean Mann | Labour |
| Colchester | Cuthbert Alport | Conservative |
| Colne Valley | Glenvil Hall | Labour |
| Consett | William Stones | Labour |
| Conway | Peter Thomas | Conservative |
| Cornwall, North | Harold Roper | Conservative |
| Coventry East | Richard Crossman | Labour |
| Coventry North | Maurice Edelman | Labour |
| Coventry South | Elaine Burton | Labour |
| Crewe | Scholefield Allen | Labour |
| Crosby | Graham Page | Conservative |
| Croydon North-East | John Hughes-Hallett | Conservative |
| Croydon North-West | Fred Harris | Conservative |
| Croydon South | Richard Thompson | Conservative |
D[] | ||
| Dagenham | John Parker | Labour |
| Darlington | Fergus Graham | Conservative |
| Dartford | Sydney Irving | Labour |
| Darwen | Charles Fletcher-Cooke | Conservative |
| Dearne Valley | Wilfred Paling | Labour |
| Denbigh | Emlyn Garner Evans | National Liberal |
| Deptford | Leslie Plummer | Labour |
| Derby North | Clifford Wilcock | Labour |
| Derby South | Philip Noel-Baker | Labour |
| Derbyshire North East | Henry White | Labour |
| Derbyshire South East | Arthur Champion | Labour |
| Derbyshire West | Edward Wakefield | Conservative |
| Devizes | H. Percivall Pott | Conservative |
| Devon, North | Hon. James Lindsay | Conservative |
| Dewsbury | William Paling | Labour |
| Don Valley | Tom Williams | Labour |
| Doncaster | Anthony Barber | Conservative |
| Dorking | Sir Gordon Touche | Conservative |
| Dorset North | Robert Crouch | Conservative |
| Dorset South | Victor Montagu | Conservative |
| Dorset West | Simon Wingfield Digby | Conservative |
| Dover | John Arbuthnot | Conservative |
| Down North | George Currie | Ulster Unionist |
| Down South | Lawrence Orr | Ulster Unionist |
| Dudley | George Wigg | Labour |
| Dulwich | Robert Jenkins | Conservative |
| Dumfriesshire | Major Niall Macpherson | National Liberal & Conservative |
| Dunbartonshire East | Cyril Bence | Labour |
| Dunbartonshire West | Tom Steele | Labour |
| Dundee East | George Thomson | Labour |
| Dundee West | John Strachey | Labour |
| Dunfermline Burghs | James Clunie | Labour |
| Durham | Charles Grey | Labour |
| Durham North West | William Ainsley | Labour |
E[] | ||
| Ealing North | John Barter | Conservative |
| Ealing South | Angus Maude | Conservative |
| Easington | Manny Shinwell | Labour |
| East Grinstead | Evelyn Emmet | Conservative |
| East Ham North | Percy Daines | Labour |
| East Ham South | Albert Oram | Labour |
| Eastbourne | Charles Taylor | Conservative |
| Eastleigh | David Price | Conservative |
| Ebbw Vale | Aneurin Bevan | Labour |
| Eccles | William Proctor | Labour |
| Edinburgh Central | Thomas Oswald | Labour |
| Edinburgh East | George Willis | Labour |
| Edinburgh Leith | James Hoy | Labour |
| Edinburgh North | William Rankine Milligan | Conservative |
| Edinburgh Pentlands | John Hope | Conservative |
| Edinburgh South | William Darling | Conservative |
| Edinburgh West | Ian Hutchison | Conservative |
| Edmonton | Austen Albu | Labour |
| Enfield East | Ernest Davies | Labour |
| Enfield West | Iain MacLeod | Conservative |
| Epping | Graeme Finlay | Conservative |
| Epsom | Peter Rawlinson | Conservative |
| Erith and Crayford | Norman Dodds | Labour |
| Esher | William Robson Brown | Conservative |
| Essex South East | Bernard Braine | Conservative |
| Eton and Slough | Fenner Brockway | Labour |
| Exeter | Rolf Dudley-Williams | Conservative |
| Eye | Harwood Harrison | Conservative |
F[] | ||
| Falmouth and Camborne | Frank Hayman | Labour |
| Farnham | Godfrey Nicholson | Conservative |
| Farnworth | Ernest Thornton | Labour |
| Faversham | Percy Wells | Labour |
| Feltham | Albert Hunter | Labour |
| Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Philip Clarke | Sinn Féin |
| Fife East | James Henderson-Stewart | Liberal & Conservative |
| Fife West | Willie Hamilton | Labour |
| Finchley | John Crowder | Conservative |
| Flint East | Eirene White | Labour |
| Flint West | Nigel Birch | Conservative |
| Folkestone and Hythe | Harry Mackeson | Conservative |
| Fulham | Michael Stewart | Labour |
| Fylde North | Hon. Richard Stanley | Conservative |
| Fylde South | Claude Lancaster | Conservative |
G[] | ||
| Gainsborough | Harry Crookshank | Conservative |
| Galloway | John Mackie | Conservative |
| Gateshead East | Arthur Moody | Labour |
| Gateshead West | John Hall | Labour |
| Gillingham | Frederick Burden | Conservative |
| Glasgow Bridgeton | James Carmichael | Labour |
| Glasgow Cathcart | John Henderson | Conservative |
| Glasgow Central | James McInnes | Labour |
| Glasgow Craigton | Jack Browne | Conservative |
| Glasgow Gorbals | Alice Cullen | Labour |
| Glasgow Govan | John Rankin | Labour |
| Glasgow Hillhead | Tam Galbraith | Conservative |
| Glasgow Kelvingrove | Walter Elliot | Conservative |
| Glasgow Maryhill | William Hannan | Labour |
| Glasgow Pollok | John George | Conservative |
| Glasgow Provan | William Reid | Labour |
| Glasgow Scotstoun | James Hutchison | Conservative |
| Glasgow Shettleston | John McGovern | Labour |
| Glasgow Springburn | John Forman | Labour |
| Glasgow Woodside | William Grant | Conservative |
| Gloucester | Moss Turner-Samuels | Labour |
| Gloucestershire South | Sir Frederick Corfield | Conservative |
| Gloucestershire West | M. Philips Price | Labour |
| Goole | George Jeger | Labour |
| Gosport and Fareham | Reginald Bennett | Conservative |
| Gower | David Grenfell | Labour |
| Grantham | Joseph Godber | Conservative |
| Gravesend | Peter Kirk | Conservative |
| Greenock | Hector McNeil | Labour |
| Greenwich | Joseph Reeves | Labour |
| Grimsby | Kenneth Younger | Labour |
| Guildford | Richard Nugent | Conservative |
H[] | ||
| Hackney Central | Herbert Butler | Labour |
| Hackney North and Stoke Newington | David Weitzman | Labour |
| Halifax | Maurice Macmillan | Conservative |
| Haltemprice | Sir Patrick Wall | Conservative |
| Hamilton | Tom Fraser | Labour |
| Hammersmith North | Frank Tomney | Labour |
| Hampstead | Henry Brooke | Conservative |
| Harborough | John Baldock | Conservative |
| Harrogate | James Ramsden | Conservative |
| Harrow Central | Patrick Bishop | Conservative |
| Harrow East | Ian Harvey | Conservative |
| Harrow West | Albert Braithwaite | Conservative |
| The Hartlepools | D. T. Jones | Labour |
| Harwich | Julian Ridsdale | Liberal & Conservative |
| Hastings | Neill Cooper-Key | Conservative |
| Hayes and Harlington | Arthur Skeffington | Labour |
| Hemel Hempstead | Viscountess Davidson | Conservative |
| Hemsworth | Horace Holmes | Labour |
| Hendon North | Ian Orr-Ewing | Conservative |
| Hendon South | Hugh Lucas-Tooth | Conservative |
| Henley | John Hay | Conservative |
| Hereford | James Thomas | Conservative |
| Hertford | Lord Balniel | Conservative |
| Hertfordshire East | Derek Walker-Smith | Conservative |
| Hertfordshire South West | Gilbert Longden | Conservative |
| Heston and Isleworth | Reader Harris | Conservative |
| Hexham | Rupert Speir | Conservative |
| Heywood and Royton | Tony Leavey | Conservative |
| High Peak | High Molson | Conservative |
| Hitchin | Martin Maddan | Conservative |
| Holborn and St Pancras South | Lena Jeger | Labour |
| Holland with Boston | Herbert Butcher | National Liberal & Conservative |
| Honiton | Robert Mathew | Conservative |
| Horncastle | John Maitland | Conservative |
| Hornchurch | Godfrey Lagden | Conservative |
| Hornsey | David Gammans | Conservative |
| Horsham | Frederick Gough | Conservative |
| Houghton-le-Spring | Billy Blyton | Labour |
| Hove | Anthony Marlowe | Conservative |
| Howden | Sir Paul Bryan | Conservative |
| Huddersfield East | Joseph Mallalieu | Labour |
| Huddersfield West | Donald Wade | Liberal |
| Huntingdonshire | David Renton | National Liberal & Conservative |
| Huyton | Harold Wilson | Labour |
I[] | ||
| Ilford North | Tom Iremonger | Conservative |
| Ilford South | Albert Cooper | Conservative |
| Ilkeston | George Oliver | Labour |
| Ince | Tom Brown | Labour |
| Inverness | Neil McLean | Conservative |
| Ipswich | Richard Stokes | Labour |
| Isle of Ely | Harry Legge-Bourke | Conservative |
| Isle of Thanet | William Rees-Davies | Conservative |
| Isle of Wight | Peter Macdonald | Conservative |
| Islington East | Eric Fletcher | Labour |
| Islington North | Wilfred Fienburgh | Labour |
| Islington South West | Albert Evans | Labour |
J[] | ||
| Jarrow | Ernest Fernyhough | Labour |
K[] | ||
| Keighley | Charles Hobson | Labour |
| Kensington North | George Rogers | Labour |
| Kensington South | Patrick Spens | Conservative |
| Kettering | Gilbert Mitchison | Labour |
| Kidderminster | Gerald Nabarro | Conservative |
| Kilmarnock | William Ross | Labour |
| King's Lynn | Ronald Scott-Miller | Conservative |
| Kingston upon Hull East | Harry Pursey | Labour |
| Kingston upon Hull North | Austen Hudson | Conservative |
| Kingston upon Hull West | Mark Hewitson | Labour |
| Kingston-upon-Thames | John Boyd-Carpenter | Conservative |
| Kinross and West Perthshire | Gilmour Leburn | Conservative |
| Kirkcaldy Burghs | Thomas Hubbard | Labour |
| Knutsford | Walter Bromley-Davenport | Conservative |
L[] | ||
| Lanark | Patrick Maitland | Conservative |
| Lanarkshire North | Margaret Herbison | Labour |
| Lancaster | Fitzroy Maclean | Conservative |
| Leeds East | Denis Healey | Labour |
| Leeds North East | Osbert Peake | Conservative |
| Leeds North West | Donald Kaberry | Conservative |
| Leeds South | Hugh Gaitskell | Labour |
| Leeds South East | Alice Bacon | Labour |
| Leeds West | Charles Pannell | Labour |
| Leek | Harold Davies | Labour |
| Leicester North East | Lynn Ungoed-Thomas | Labour |
| Leicester North West | Barnett Janner | Labour |
| Leicester South East | Charles Waterhouse | Conservative |
| Leicester South West | Herbert Bowden | Labour |
| Leigh | Harold Boardman | Labour |
| Leominster | Archer Baldwin | Conservative |
| Lewes | Tufton Beamish | Conservative |
| Lewisham North | Sir Austin Hudson, Bt. | Conservative |
| Lewisham South | Herbert Morrison | Labour |
| Lewisham West | Henry Price | Conservative |
| Leyton | Reginald Sorensen | Labour |
| Lichfield and Tamworth | Julian Snow | Labour |
| Lincoln | Geoffrey de Freitas | Labour |
| Liverpool Edge Hill | Arthur Irvine | Labour |
| Liverpool Exchange | Bessie Braddock | Labour |
| Liverpool Garston | Victor Raikes | Conservative |
| Liverpool Kirkdale | Norman Pannell | Conservative |
| Liverpool Scotland | David Logan | Labour |
| Liverpool Toxteth | Reginald Bevins | Conservative |
| Liverpool Walton | Kenneth Thompson | Conservative |
| Liverpool Wavertree | John Tilney | Conservative |
| Liverpool West Derby | John Woollam | Conservative |
| Llanelli | Jim Griffiths | Labour |
| Londonderry | Robin Chichester-Clark | Ulster Unionist |
| Loughborough | John Cronin | Labour |
| Louth | Cyril Osborne | Conservative |
| Lowestoft | Edward Evans | Labour |
| Ludlow | Christopher Holland-Martin | Conservative |
| Luton | Charles Hill | Liberal & Conservative |
M[] | ||
| Macclesfield | Arthur Vere Harvey | Conservative |
| Maidstone | Alfred Bossom | Conservative |
| Maldon | Alastair Harrison | Conservative |
| Manchester Ardwick | Leslie Lever | Labour |
| Manchester Blackley | Eric Johnson | Conservative |
| Manchester Cheetham | Harold Lever | Labour |
| Manchester Exchange | Will Griffiths | Labour |
| Manchester Gorton | Konni Zilliacus | Labour |
| Manchester Moss Side | Florence Horsbrugh | Conservative |
| Manchester Openshaw | William Williams | Labour |
| Manchester Withington | Sir Robert Cary, Bt. | Conservative |
| Manchester Wythenshawe | Eveline Hill | Conservative |
| Mansfield | Bernard Taylor | Labour |
| Melton | Anthony Nutting | Conservative |
| Meriden | Reginald Moss | Labour |
| Merioneth | Thomas Jones | Labour |
| Merthyr Tydfil | S.O. Davies | Labour |
| Merton and Morden | Humphrey Atkins | Conservative |
| Middlesbrough East | Hilary Marquand | Labour |
| Middlesbrough West | Jocelyn Simon | Conservative |
| Middleton and Prestwich | Sir John Barlow | Conservative |
| Midlothian | David Pryde | Labour |
| Mitcham | Robert Carr | Conservative |
| Monmouth | Peter Thorneycroft | Conservative |
| Montgomery | Clement Davies | Liberal |
| Moray and Nairn | Hon. James Stuart | Conservative |
| Morecambe and Lonsdale | Ian Fraser | Conservative |
| Morpeth | Will Owen | Labour |
| Motherwell | George Lawson | Labour |
N[] | ||
| Nantwich | Robert Grant-Ferris | Conservative |
| Neath | D. J. Williams | Labour |
| Nelson and Colne | Sydney Silverman | Labour |
| New Forest | Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre | Conservative |
| Newark | George Deer | Labour |
| Newbury | Anthony Hurd | Conservative |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | Stephen Swingler | Labour |
| Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Ted Short | Labour |
| Newcastle upon Tyne East | Arthur Blenkinsop | Labour |
| Newcastle upon Tyne North | Hon. Gwilym Lloyd George | Liberal & Conservative |
| Newcastle upon Tyne West | Ernest Popplewell | Labour |
| Newport | Peter Freeman | Labour |
| Newton | Frederick Lee | Labour |
| Norfolk Central | Frank Medlicott | National Liberal & Conservative |
| Norfolk North | Edwin Gooch | Labour |
| Norfolk South | John Hill | Conservative |
| Norfolk, South West | Sidney Dye | Labour |
| Normanton | Albert Roberts | Labour |
| Northampton | Reginald Paget | Labour |
| Northamptonshire South | Reginald Manningham-Buller | Conservative |
| Northwich | John Foster | Conservative |
| Norwich North | John Paton | Labour |
| Norwich South | Geoffrey Rippon | Conservative |
| Norwood | John Smyth | Conservatuve |
| Nottingham Central | John Cordeaux | Conservative |
| Nottingham North | James Harrison | Labour |
| Nottingham South | Denis Keegan | Conservative |
| Nottingham West | Tom O'Brien | Labour |
| Nuneaton | Frank Bowles | Labour |
O[] | ||
| Ogmore | Walter Padley | Labour |
| Oldbury and Halesowen | Arthur Moyle | Labour |
| Oldham East | Sir Ian Horobin | Conservative |
| Oldham West | Leslie Hale | Labour |
| Orkney and Shetland | Jo Grimond | Liberal |
| Ormskirk | Douglas Glover | Conservative |
| Orpington | Donald Sumner | Conservative |
| Oswestry | Hon. David Ormsby-Gore | Conservative |
| Oxford | Lawrence Turner | Conservative |
P[] | ||
| Paddington North | Ben Parkin | Labour |
| Paddington South | Robert Allan | Conservative |
| Paisley | Douglas Johnston | Labour |
| Peckham | Freda Corbet | Labour |
| Pembrokeshire | Desmond Donnelly | Labour |
| Penistone | Henry McGhee | Labour |
| Penrith and the Border | William Whitelaw | Conservative |
| Perth and East Perthshire | Alan Gomme-Duncan | Conservative |
| Peterborough | Harmar Nicholls | Conservative |
| Petersfield | Hon. Peter Legh | Conservative |
| Plymouth Devonport | Joan Vickers | Conservative & National Liberal |
| Plymouth Sutton | Hon. Jakie Astor | Conservative |
| Pontefract | George Sylvester | Labour |
| Pontypool | Granville West | Labour |
| Pontypridd | Arthur Pearson | Labour |
| Poole | Richard Pilkington | Conservative |
| Poplar | Charles Key | Labour |
| Portsmouth Langstone | Geoffrey Stevens | Conservative |
| Portsmouth South | Jocelyn Lucas | Conservative |
| Portsmouth West | Terence Clarke | Conservative |
| Preston North | Julian Amery | Conservative |
| Preston South | Alan Green | Conservative |
| Pudsey | Cyril Banks | Conservative |
| Putney | Hugh Linstead | Conservative |
R[] | ||
| Reading | Ian Mikardo | Labour |
| Reigate | John Vaughan-Morgan | Conservative |
| Renfrewshire East | Guy Lloyd | Conservative |
| Renfrewshire West | John Maclay | Liberal & Conservative |
| Rhondda East | William Mainwaring | Labour |
| Rhondda West | Iorwerth Thomas | Labour |
| Richmond (Surrey) | Sir George Harvie-Watt | Conservative |
| Richmond (Yorks) | Thomas Dugdale | Conservative |
| Ripon | Malcolm Stoddart-Scott | Conservative |
| Rochdale | Wentworth Schofield | Conservative |
| Rochester and Chatham | Arthur Bottomley | Labour |
| Romford | Ron Ledger | Labour |
| Ross and Cromarty | Capt. John MacLeod | National Liberal |
| Rossendale | Tony Greenwood | Labour |
| Rother Valley | David Griffiths | Labour |
| Rotherham | Jack Jones | Labour |
| Rowley Regis and Tipton | Arthur Henderson | Labour |
| Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles | Charles Donaldson | Conservative |
| Rugby | James Johnson | Labour |
| Ruislip-Northwood | Petre Crowder | Conservative |
| Runcorn | Dennis Vosper | Conservative |
| Rushcliffe | Martin Redmayne | Conservative |
| Rutherglen | Richard Brooman-White | Conservative |
| Rutland and Stamford | Sir Roger Conant | Conservative |
| Rye | Godman Irvine | Conservative |
S[] | ||
| Saffron Walden | Rab Butler | Conservative |
| St Albans | Hon. John Grimston | Conservative |
| St Helens | Hartley Shawcross | Labour |
| St Ives | Hon. Greville Howard | Conservative |
| St Marylebone | Wavell Wakefield | Conservative |
| St Pancras North | Kenneth Robinson | Labour |
| Salford East | Frank Allaun | Labour |
| Salford West | Charles Royle | Labour |
| Salisbury | John Morrison | Conservative |
| Scarborough and Whitby | Alexander Spearman | Conservative |
| Sedgefield | Joseph Slater | Labour |
| Sevenoaks | Sir John Rodgers | Conservative |
| Sheffield, Attercliffe | John Hynd | Labour |
| Sheffield, Brightside | Richard Winterbottom | Labour |
| Sheffield, Hallam | Sir Roland Jennings | Conservative |
| Sheffield, Heeley | Peter Roberts | Conservative |
| Sheffield, Hillsborough | George Darling | Labour |
| Sheffield, Park | Fred Mulley | Labour |
| Shipley | Geoffrey Hirst | Conservative |
| Shoreditch and Finsbury | Victor Collins | Labour |
| Shrewsbury | John Langford-Holt | Conservative |
| Skipton | Burnaby Drayson | Conservative |
| Smethwick | Patrick Gordon Walker | Labour |
| Solihull | Martin Lindsay | Conservative |
| Somerset North | Edwin Leather | Conservative |
| South Shields | James Chuter Ede | Labour |
| Southall | George Pargiter | Labour |
| Southampton Itchen | Horace King | Labour |
| Southampton Test | John Howard | Conservative |
| Southend East | Stephen McAdden | Conservative |
| Southend West | Henry Channon | Conservative |
| Southgate | Beverley Baxter | Conservative |
| Southport | Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh | Conservative |
| Southwark | George Isaacs | Labour |
| Sowerby | Douglas Houghton | Labour |
| Spelthorne | Beresford Craddock | Conservative |
| Stafford and Stone | Hugh Fraser | Conservative |
| Stalybridge and Hyde | Fred Blackburn | Labour |
| Stepney | Walter Edwards | Labour |
| Stirling and Falkirk | Malcolm MacPherson | Labour |
| Stirlingshire East and Clackmannan | Arthur Woodburn | Labour |
| Stirlingshire West | Alfred Balfour | Labour |
| Stockport North | Norman Hulbert | Conservative |
| Stockport South | Harold Steward | Conservative |
| Stockton-on-Tees | George Chetwynd | Labour |
| Stoke-on-Trent Central | Barnett Stross | Labour |
| Stoke-on-Trent North | Harriet Slater | Labour |
| Stoke-on-Trent South | Ellis Smith | Labour |
| Stratford-on-Avon | John Profumo | Conservative |
| Streatham | Duncan Sandys | Conservative |
| Stretford | Samuel Storey | Conservative |
| Stroud | Anthony Kershaw | Conservative |
| Sudbury and Woodbridge | John Hare | Conservative |
| Sunderland North | Fred Willey | Labour |
| Sunderland South | Paul Williams | Conservative |
| Surbiton | Sir Nigel Fisher | Conservative |
| Surrey East | Charles Doughty | Conservative |
| Sutton and Cheam | Richard Sharples | Conservative |
| Sutton Coldfield | Geoffrey Lloyd | Conservative |
| Swansea East | David Mort | Labour |
| Swansea West | Percy Morris | Labour |
| Swindon | Francis Noel-Baker | Labour |
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| Taunton | Henry Hopkinson | Conservative |
| Tavistock | Henry Studholme | Conservative |
| Thirsk and Malton | Robin Turton | Conservative |
| Thurrock | Hugh Delargy | Labour |
| Tiverton | Derick Heathcoat-Amory | Conservative |
| Tonbridge | Gerald Williams | Conservative |
| Torquay | Charles Williams | Conservative |
| Torrington | Hon. George Lambert | National Liberal & Conservative |
| Totnes | Ray Mawby | Conservative |
| Tottenham | Frederick Messer | Labour |
| Truro | Geoffrey Wilson | Conservative |
| Twickenham | Roger Gresham Cooke | Conservative |
| Tynemouth | Irene Ward | Conservative |
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| Ulster, Mid | Tom Mitchell | Sinn Féin |
| Uxbridge | Frank Beswick | Labour |
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| Vauxhall | George Strauss | Labour |
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| Wakefield | Arthur Creech Jones | Labour |
| Wallasey | Ernest Marples | Conservative |
| Wallsend | John McKay | Labour |
| Walsall North | William Wells | Labour |
| Walsall South | Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid | Conservative |
| Walthamstow East | John Harvey | Conservative |
| Walthamstow West | Clement Attlee | Labour |
| Wandsworth Central | Michael Hughes-Young | Conservative |
| Warrington | Edith Summerskill | Labour |
| Warwick and Leamington | Anthony Eden | Conservative |
| Watford | Frederick Farey-Jones | Conservative |
| Wednesbury | Stanley Evans | Labour |
| Wellingborough | George Lindgren | Labour |
| Wells | Lynch Maydon | Conservative |
| Wembley North | Eric Bullus | Conservative |
| Wembley South | Ronald Russell | Conservative |
| West Bromwich | John Dugdale | Labour |
| West Ham North | Arthur Lewis | Labour |
| West Ham South | Elwyn Jones | Labour |
| West Lothian | John Taylor | Labour |
| Westbury | Robert Grimston | Conservative |
| Western Isles | Malcolm Macmillan | Labour |
| Westhoughton | Tom Price | Labour |
| Westmorland | William Fletcher-Vane | Conservative |
| Weston-super-Mare | Ian Orr-Ewing | Conservative |
| Whitehaven | Frank Anderson | Labour |
| Widnes | James MacColl | Labour |
| Wigan | Ronald Williams | Labour |
| Willesden East | Maurice Orbach | Labour |
| Willesden West | Samuel Viant | Labour |
| Wimbledon | Cyril Black | Conservative |
| Winchester | Peter Smithers | Conservative |
| Windsor | Charles Mott-Radclyffe | Conservative |
| Wirral | Selwyn Lloyd | Conservative |
| Woking | Harold Watkinson | Conservative |
| Wokingham | Peter Remnant | Conservative |
| Wolverhampton North East | John Baird | Labour |
| Wolverhampton South West | Enoch Powell | Conservative |
| Wood Green | Joyce Butler | Labour Co-operative |
| Woodford | Winston Churchill | Conservative |
| Woolwich East | Christopher Mayhew | Labour |
| Woolwich West | William Steward | Conservative |
| Worcester | Hon. George Ward | Conservative |
| Worcestershire, South | Sir Peter Agnew | Conservative |
| Workington | Fred Peart | Labour |
| Worthing | Otho Prior-Palmer | Conservative |
| The Wrekin | William Yates | Conservative |
| Wrexham | James Idwal Jones | Labour |
| Wycombe | Sir John Hall | Conservative |
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| Yarmouth | Anthony Fell | Conservative |
| Yeovil | John Peyton | Conservative |
| York | Harry Hylton-Foster | Conservative |
By-elections[]
See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.
See also[]
- List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom
- UK general election, 1955
- Category:UK MPs 1955–1959
Categories:
- Lists of MPs elected in United Kingdom general elections
- 1955 United Kingdom general election
- UK MPs 1955–1959
- 1955-related lists