Women in Parliament Today
See a full alphabetical list of women members of the House of Lords, with links to contact and biographical information. Women Chairs of Select Committees. Details of the women who have chaired Select Committees in both Houses since the 2010-15 Parliament. Laws that have changed women's lives.
List of female members of the House of Commons of the United …
Succeeded her husband J. C. C. Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson as MP after he became a member of the House of Lords after being raised to the peerage as Viscount Davidson. Daughter of Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson. In 1963 she was created a life peer as Baroness Northchurch, of Chiswick in the County of Middlesex.
List of female cabinet members of the United Kingdom
Contents. List of female cabinet members of the United Kingdom. Sixty-six women have been appointed to positions in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom, with three female Prime Ministers serving in cabinet.
Women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
Between 1918 and 2024, a total of 693 women have been elected as Members of the House of Commons. As of July 2024 there are 263 women in the House of Commons, the highest ever. [ 2 ] This is an all-time high at 40%.
Female Members of Parliament - House of Commons Library
Jul 24, 2024 · This list provides the names of the female MPs, the party they were first elected for, the constituency or constituencies they represented and the dates they sat as MPs. Please note Sinn Féin MPs have never taken their seats in the House of Commons.
A Breakdown Of The Number Of Female MPs Now In Parliament …
In addition to welcoming in a record number of LGBTQ+ and state school-educated MPs, the polls saw the highest number of female lawmakers being elected to the House of Commons.
General election 2019 results: full list of female MPs after a record ...
Dec 13, 2019 · The House of Commons will welcome 220 women to its benches after a record number of female MP won seats in the general election. There are 12 more women who have been elected this year as MPs...
2024 general election: How many women were elected? - The …
Aug 6, 2024 · 263 women were elected to Parliament on 4 July 2024 – the highest number ever. This Insight compares the number of women MPs elected in 2024 with earlier election results and looks at the history of female representation in the UK Parliament.
Women in the Cabinet: 1979 to 2017 - The House of Commons …
Mar 7, 2018 · This has happened twice in history, as part of Gordon Brown’s Labour Government and as part of Theresa May’s Conservative Government. The graph below shows a time series of the number of women in parliament, and this Cabinet changes May 1979 to January 2017 PDF explains each of these changes.
Female MPs from 86 countries mark 100 years of women's suffrage - BBC
Female politicians from 86 countries gathered in the Commons to mark 100 years since women in the UK won the right to vote.