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This is a chronological list of parliamentary constituencies in the Kingdom of Great Britain and its successor state the United Kingdom which were represented by sitting prime ministers.

A majority of constituencies are or were (in the case of those abolished) in England, apart from three in Wales and six in Scotland. No prime minister has represented a constituency in Ireland or Northern Ireland.

Constituency		County	Prime Minister	Portrait	Start	End	Notes
	King's Lynn	Norfolk	Sir Robert Walpole		3 April 1721	6 February 1742	Regarded as the first prime minister in the modern sense. Created Earl of Orford on 6 February 1742
	Earl of Orford	House of Lords	The Earl of Orford		6 February 1742	11 February 1742	See previous entry.
	Earl of Wilmington	House of Lords	The Earl of Wilmington		16 February 1742	2 July 1743
	Sussex	Sussex	Henry Pelham		27 August 1743	6 March 1754
	Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne	House of Lords	The Duke of Newcastle		16 March 1754	11 November 1756
	Duke of Devonshire	House of Lords	The Duke of Devonshire		16 November 1756	29 June 1757
	Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne	House of Lords	The Duke of Newcastle		29 June 1757	26 May 1762
	Representative Peer	House of Lords	The Earl of Bute		26 May 1762	8 April 1763
	Buckingham	Buckinghamshire	George Grenville		16 April 1763	10 July 1765
	Marquess of Rockingham	House of Lords	The Marquess of Rockingham		13 July 1765	30 July 1766
	Bath	Somerset	William Pitt the Elder		30 July 1766	4 August 1766	Pitt "kissed hands" as a commoner on 30 July 1766. He chose to become Lord Privy Seal, and was created Earl of Chatham on 4 August 1766.
	Earl of Chatham	House of Lords	The Earl of Chatham		4 August 1766	14 October 1768	See previous entry.
	Duke of Grafton	House of Lords	The Duke of Grafton		14 October 1768	28 January 1770
	Banbury	Oxfordshire	Lord North		28 January 1770	27 March 1782
	Marquess of Rockingham	House of Lords	The Marquess of Rockingham		27 March 1782	1 July 1782
	Baron Wycombe	House of Lords	The Earl of Shelburne		4 July 1782	26 March 1783
	Duke of Portland	House of Lords	The Duke of Portland		2 April 1783	18 December 1783
	Appleby	Westmorland	William Pitt the Younger		19 December 1783	3 April 1784
	Cambridge University	Cambridgeshire			3 April 1784	14 March 1801	Chose to stand for different constituency
	Devizes	Wiltshire	Henry Addington		17 March 1801	10 May 1804
	Cambridge University	Cambridgeshire	William Pitt the Younger		10 May 1804	23 January 1806
	Baron Grenville	House of Lords	The Lord Grenville		11 February 1806	25 March 1807
	Duke of Portland	House of Lords	The Duke of Portland		31 March 1807	4 October 1809
	Northampton	Northamptonshire	Spencer Perceval		4 October 1809	11 May 1812	Perceval was shot and killed in the lobby of the House of Commons. He is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated.
	Earl of Liverpool	House of Lords	The Earl of Liverpool		8 June 1812	9 April 1827
	Seaford	Sussex	George Canning		20 April 1827	8 August 1827	Chose to stand for different constituency
	Viscount Goderich	House of Lords	The Viscount Goderich		31 August 1827	8 January 1828
	Duke of Wellington	House of Lords	The Duke of Wellington		22 January 1828	16 November 1830
	Earl Grey	House of Lords	The Earl Grey		22 November 1830	9 July 1834
	Baron Melbourne	House of Lords	The Viscount Melbourne		16 July 1834	14 November 1834
	Duke of Wellington	House of Lords	The Duke of Wellington		17 November 1834	9 December 1834
	Tamworth	Staffordshire	Sir Robert Peel, Bt.		10 December 1834	8 April 1835
	Baron Melbourne	House of Lords	The Viscount Melbourne		18 April 1835	30 August 1841
	Tamworth	Staffordshire	Sir Robert Peel, Bt.		30 August 1841	29 June 1846
	City of London	City of London	Lord John Russell		30 June 1846	21 February 1852	Later created Earl Russell on 27 July 1861
	Earl of Derby	House of Lords	The Earl of Derby		23 February 1852	17 December 1852
	Viscount Gordon	House of Lords	The Earl of Aberdeen		19 December 1852	30 January 1855
	Tiverton	Devon	The Viscount Palmerston		6 February 1855	19 February 1858
	Earl of Derby	House of Lords	The Earl of Derby		20 February 1858	11 June 1859
	Tiverton	Devon	The Viscount Palmerston		12 June 1859	18 October 1865
	Earl Russell	House of Lords	The Earl Russell		29 October 1865	26 June 1866	Previously Lord John Russell.
	Earl of Derby	House of Lords	The Earl of Derby		28 June 1866	25 February 1868
	Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire	Benjamin Disraeli		27 February 1868	1 December 1868
	Greenwich	Kent	William Ewart Gladstone		3 December 1868	17 February 1874
	Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire	Benjamin Disraeli		20 February 1874	21 August 1876	Created Earl of Beaconsfield on 21 August 1876
	Earl of Beaconsfield	House of Lords	The Earl of Beaconsfield		21 August 1876	21 April 1880	See previous entry.
	Midlothian	Edinburgh	William Ewart Gladstone		23 April 1880	9 June 1885
	Marquess of Salisbury	House of Lords	The Marquess of Salisbury		23 June 1885	28 January 1886
	Midlothian	Edinburgh	William Ewart Gladstone		1 February 1886	20 July 1886
	Marquess of Salisbury	House of Lords	The Marquess of Salisbury		25 July 1886	11 August 1892
	Midlothian	Edinburgh	William Ewart Gladstone		15 August 1892	2 March 1894
	Baron Rosebery	House of Lords	The Earl of Rosebery		5 March 1894	22 June 1895
	Marquess of Salisbury	House of Lords	The Marquess of Salisbury		25 June 1895	11 July 1902
	Manchester East	Lancashire	Arthur Balfour		12 July 1902	4 December 1905
	Stirling Burghs	Stirlingshire	Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman		5 December 1905	5 April 1908
		Perthshire
		Fife
		Linlithgowshire
	Fife East	Fife	H. H. Asquith		5 April 1908	5 December 1916
	Caernarvon Boroughs	Caernarfon	David Lloyd George		6 December 1916	19 October 1922
	Glasgow Central	Glasgow	Bonar Law		23 October 1922	20 May 1923
	Bewdley	Worcestershire	Stanley Baldwin		22 May 1923	22 January 1924
	Aberavon	Glamorgan	Ramsay MacDonald		22 January 1924	4 November 1924
	Bewdley	Worcestershire	Stanley Baldwin		4 November 1924	4 June 1929
	Seaham	County Durham	Ramsay MacDonald		5 June 1929	7 June 1935
	Bewdley	Worcestershire	Stanley Baldwin		7 June 1935	28 May 1937
	Birmingham Edgbaston	Warwickshire	Neville Chamberlain		28 May 1937	10 May 1940
	Epping	Essex	Winston Churchill		10 May 1940	5 July 1945	Constituency abolished effective with 1945 general election
	Woodford	Essex			5 July 1945	26 July 1945
	Limehouse	County of London	Clement Attlee		26 July 1945	23 February 1950	Constituency abolished effective with 1950 general election
	Walthamstow West	Essex			23 February 1950	26 October 1951
	Woodford	Essex	Sir Winston Churchill		26 October 1951	5 April 1955
	Warwick and Leamington	Warwickshire	Sir Anthony Eden		6 April 1955	9 January 1957
	Bromley	Kent	Harold Macmillan		10 January 1957	18 October 1963
	Earl of Home	House of Lords	The Earl of Home		19 October 1963	22 October 1963	Douglas-Home was the Earl of Home when he became prime minister and renounced his peerage four days later to stand for the House of Commons.
	Prime minister outside Parliament		Sir Alec Douglas-Home		23 October 1963	7 November 1963	Douglas-Home was in neither House of Parliament and during an active parliament, briefly for twenty days. He was elected in by-election on 8 November 1963, but did not take his seat until 12 November.
	Kinross and Western Perthshire	Kinross-shire			8 November 1963	16 October 1964
		Perthshire
	Huyton	Lancashire	Harold Wilson		16 October 1964	19 June 1970
	Bexley	Greater London	Edward Heath		19 June 1970	28 February 1974	Constituency abolished effective with February 1974 general election
	Sidcup	Greater London			28 February 1974	4 March 1974	Heath was elected for Sidcup and did not resign as prime minister for several days while he attempted to form a coalition.
	Huyton	Merseyside	Harold Wilson		4 March 1974	5 April 1976
	Cardiff South East	South Glamorgan	James Callaghan		5 April 1976	4 May 1979
	Finchley	Greater London	Margaret Thatcher		4 May 1979	28 November 1990
	Huntingdon	Cambridgeshire	John Major		28 November 1990	2 May 1997
	Sedgefield	County Durham	Tony Blair		2 May 1997	27 June 2007
	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath	Fife	Gordon Brown		27 June 2007	11 May 2010
	Witney	Oxfordshire	David Cameron		11 May 2010	13 July 2016
	Maidenhead	Berkshire	Theresa May		13 July 2016	24 July 2019
	Uxbridge and South Ruislip	Greater London	Boris Johnson		24 July 2019	6 September 2022	Had previously served as MP for Henley
	South West Norfolk	Norfolk	Liz Truss		6 September 2022	25 October 2022
	Richmond (Yorks)	North Yorkshire	Rishi Sunak		25 October 2022	4 July 2024	Constituency abolished effective with 2024 general election
	Richmond and Northallerton				4 July 2024	5 July 2024	Sunak was elected for Richmond and Northallerton and resigned as prime minister the next day.
	Holborn and St Pancras	Greater London	Sir Keir Starmer		5 July 2024	Incumbent

References

1. ^ Members of the Peerage of Scotland were not automatically permitted to sit in the House of Lords until the passing of the Peerage Act 1963. Up to that point, Scottish peers could only sit in the House of Lords if they were elected as one of the sixteen Representative Peers, or if they held, in addition to their Scottish peerage, an additional title in either the Peerage of Great Britain or the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Following the passing of the Peerage Act, all Scottish peers were given the right to a seat in the House of Lords. This right lasted until the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.
2. ^ Members of the Peerage of Ireland were not automatically permitted to sit in the House of Lords. Only Irish peers that had been elected as one of 28 Representative Peers (from 1801 to 1921), or those that held, in addition to their Irish peerage, an additional title in either the Peerage of Great Britain or the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This lasted until the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999. However, those Irish peers that were not entitled to a seat in the House of Lords were entitled to stand for election to the House of Commons.

External links

• Prime Ministers in History, 10 Downing Street website

• Lists of constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Lists of prime ministers of the United Kingdom