This is a list of

Members of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members ofte ...

(MPs) elected in the 1983 general election, held on 9 June. This Parliament was dissolved in 1987. During 1983-1987

Bernard Weatherill Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, (25 November 1920 – 6 May 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1983 and 1992. Family He was the son of Bernard Bruce Weatherill ...

was the speaker,

Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime ...

served as Prime Minister,

Michael Foot Michael Mackintosh Foot (23 July 19133 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Labour Leader from 1980 to 1983. Foot began his career as a journalist on ''Tribune'' and the ''Evening Standard''. He co-wrote the 1940 ...

and

Neil Kinnock Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock (born 28 March 1942) is a British former politician. As a member of the Labour Party, he served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader ...

served as Leaders of the Opposition.

Composition

These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1983 general election. House of Commons elected members, 1983

Note: The Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru sit together as a party group, while Sinn Féin has not taken its seats. 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. __NOTOC__

By-elections

See the

list of United Kingdom by-elections The list of by-elections in the United Kingdom is divided chronologically by parliament: Parliament of the United Kingdom * List of United Kingdom by-elections (1801–1806) * List of United Kingdom by-elections (1806–1818) * List of United Kin ...

. Two seats were vacant when Parliament was dissolved preparatory to the 1987 general election: *Kirkcaldy – Harry Gourlay (Lab) died 20 April 1987 *Lewisham, Deptford – John Silkin (Lab) died 26 April 1987

Composition

By-elections

See also