It was the election from which Margaret Thatcher, the incumbent Conservative Party leader became Prime Minister, the first female head of government in the United Kingdom and Europe.
These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1979 general election.
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| Constituency | MP | Party |
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| Aberavon | John Morris | Labour |
| Aberdare | Ioan Evans | Labour Co-operative |
| Aberdeen, North | Robert Hughes | Labour |
| Aberdeen, South | Iain Sproat | Conservative |
| Aberdeenshire, East | Albert McQuarrie | Conservative |
| Aberdeenshire, West | Russell Fairgrieve | Conservative |
| Abertillery | Jeffrey Thomas | Labour, then SDP |
| Abingdon | Thomas Benyon | Conservative |
| Accrington | Arthur Davidson | Labour |
| Acton | Sir George Young, Bt | Conservative |
| Aldershot | Julian Critchley | Conservative |
| Aldridge-Brownhills | Richard Shepherd | Conservative |
| Altrincham and Sale | Fergus Montgomery | Conservative |
| Anglesey | Keith Best | Conservative |
| Angus, North, and Mearns | Alick Buchanan-Smith | Conservative |
| Angus, South | Peter Fraser | Conservative |
| Antrim, North | Rev. Ian Paisley | Democratic Unionist |
| Antrim, South | James Molyneaux | Official Unionist |
| Argyll | John MacKay | Conservative |
| Armagh | Harold McCusker | Official Unionist |
| Arundel | Michael Marshall | Conservative |
| Ashfield | Frank Haynes | Labour |
| Ashford | Keith Speed | Conservative |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | Robert Sheldon | Labour |
| Aylesbury | Timothy Raison | Conservative |
| Ayr | Hon. George Younger | Conservative |
| Ayrshire, Central | David Lambie | Labour |
| Ayrshire, North, and Bute | John Alexander Corrie | Conservative |
| Ayrshire, South | George Foulkes | Labour Co-operative |
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| Banbury | Neil Marten | Conservative |
| Banff | David Myles | Conservative |
| Barking, Barking | Josephine Richardson | Labour |
| Barking, Dagenham | John Parker | Labour |
| Barkston Ash | Michael Alison | Conservative |
| Barnet, Chipping Barnet | Sydney Chapman | Conservative |
| Barnet, Finchley | Margaret Thatcher | Conservative |
| Barnet, Hendon, North | John Gorst | Conservative |
| Barnet, Hendon, South | Peter Thomas | Conservative |
| Barnsley | Roy Mason | Labour |
| Barrow-in-Furness | Albert Booth | Labour |
| Barry | Sir Raymond Gower | Conservative |
| Basildon | Harvey Proctor | Conservative |
| Basingstoke | David Mitchell | Conservative |
| Bassetlaw | Joseph Ashton | Labour |
| Bath | Chris Patten | Conservative |
| Batley and Morley | Kenneth Woolmer | Labour |
| Beaconsfield | Ronald Bell | Conservative |
| Bebington and Ellesmere Port | Barry Porter | Conservative |
| Bedford | Trevor Skeet | Conservative |
| Bedfordshire, Mid | Stephen Hastings | Conservative |
| Bedfordshire, South | David Madel | Conservative |
| Bedwellty | Neil Kinnock | Labour |
| Beeston | James Lester | Conservative |
| Belfast, East | Peter Robinson | Democratic Unionist |
| Belfast, North | John McQuade | Democratic Unionist |
| Belfast, South | Rev. Robert Bradford | Official Unionist |
| Belfast, West | Gerard "Gerry" Fitt | Social Democratic and Labour |
| Belper | Sheila Faith | Conservative |
| Berwick and East Lothian | John Robertson | Labour |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | Alan Beith | Liberal |
| Bexley, Bexleyheath | Cyril Townsend | Conservative |
| Bexley, Erith and Crayford | James Wellbeloved | Labour, then SDP |
| Bexley, Sidcup | Edward Heath | Conservative |
| Birkenhead | Frank Field | Labour |
| Birmingham, Edgbaston | Jill Knight | Conservative |
| Birmingham, Erdington | Julius Silverman | Labour |
| Birmingham, Hall Green | Reginald Eyre | Conservative |
| Birmingham, Handsworth | Sheila Wright | Labour |
| Birmingham, Ladywood | John Sever | Labour |
| Birmingham, Northfield | Jocelyn Cadbury | Conservative |
| Birmingham, Perry Barr | Jeff Rooker | Labour |
| Birmingham, Selly Oak | Anthony Beaumont-Dark | Conservative |
| Birmingham, Small Heath | Denis Howell | Labour |
| Birmingham, Sparkbrook | Roy Hattersley | Labour |
| Birmingham, Stechford | Terence Davis | Labour |
| Birmingham, Yardley | David Gilroy Bevan | Conservative |
| Bishop Auckland | Derek Foster | Labour |
| Blaby | Nigel Lawson | Conservative |
| Blackburn | Jack Straw | Labour |
| Blackpool, North | Norman Miscampbell | Conservative |
| Blackpool, South | Peter Blaker | Conservative |
| Blaydon | John McWilliam | Labour |
| Blyth | John Ryman | Labour |
| Bodmin | Robert Hicks | Conservative |
| Bolsover | Dennis Skinner | Labour |
| Bolton, East | David Young | Labour |
| Bolton, West | Ann Taylor | Labour |
| Bootle | Allan Roberts | Labour |
| Bosworth | Hon. Adam Butler | Conservative |
| Bothwell | James Hamilton | Labour |
| Bournemouth, East | David Atkinson | Conservative |
| Bournemouth, West | Sir John Eden, Bt | Conservative |
| Bradford, North | Benjamin Ford | Labour |
| Bradford, South | Thomas Torney | Labour |
| Bradford, West | Edward Lyons | Labour, then SDP |
| Braintree | Anthony Newton | Conservative |
| Brecon and Radnor | Tom Hooson | Conservative |
| Brent, East | Reginald Freeson | Labour |
| Brent, North | Rhodes Boyson | Conservative |
| Brent, South | Laurence Pavitt | Labour Co-operative |
| Brentwood and Ongar | Robert McCrindle | Conservative |
| Bridgwater | Tom King | Conservative |
| Bridlington | John Townend | Conservative |
| Brigg and Scunthorpe | Michael Brown | Conservative |
| Brighouse and Spenborough | Gary Waller | Conservative |
| Brighton, Kemptown | Andrew Bowden | Conservative |
| Brighton, Pavilion | Julian Amery | Conservative |
| Bristol, North East | Arthur Palmer | Labour Co-operative |
| Bristol, North West | Michael Colvin | Conservative |
| Bristol, South | Michael Cocks | Labour |
| Bristol, South East | Tony Benn | Labour |
| Bristol, West | Hon. William Waldegrave | Conservative |
| Bromley, Beckenham | Philip Goodhart | Conservative |
| Bromley, Chislehurst | Roger Sims | Conservative |
| Bromley, Orpington | Ivor Stanbrook | Conservative |
| Bromley, Ravensbourne | John Hunt | Conservative |
| Bromsgrove and Redditch | Hal Miller | Conservative |
| Buckingham | William Benyon | Conservative |
| Burnley | Dan Jones | Labour |
| Burton | Ivan Lawrence | Conservative |
| Bury and Radcliffe | Frank White | Labour |
| Bury St Edmunds | Eldon Griffiths | Conservative |
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| Caernarfon | Dafydd Wigley | Plaid Cymru |
| Caerphilly | Ednyfed Hudson Davies | Labour, then SDP |
| Caithness and Sutherland | Robert Maclennan | Labour, then SDP |
| Cambridge | Robert Rhodes James | Conservative |
| Cambridgeshire | Francis Pym | Conservative |
| Camden, Hampstead | Geoffrey Finsberg | Conservative |
| Camden, Holborn and St Pancras South | Frank Dobson | Labour |
| Camden, St Pancras, North | Albert Stallard | Labour |
| Cannock | Gwilym Roberts | Labour |
| Canterbury | David Crouch | Conservative |
| Cardiff, North | Ian Grist | Conservative |
| Cardiff, North West | Michael Roberts | Conservative |
| Cardiff, South East | James Callaghan | Labour |
| Cardiff, West | George Thomas | Labour |
| Cardigan | Geraint Howells | Liberal |
| Carlisle | Ronald Lewis | Labour |
| Carlton | Philip Holland | Conservative |
| Carmarthen | Roger Thomas | Labour |
| Cheadle | Tom Normanton | Conservative |
| Chelmsford | Norman St John-Stevas | Conservative |
| Cheltenham | Charles Irving | Conservative |
| Chertsey and Walton | Geoffrey Pattie | Conservative |
| Chesham and Amersham | Sir Ian Gilmour, Bt | Conservative |
| Chester | Hon. Peter Morrison | Conservative |
| Chesterfield | Eric Varley | Labour |
| Chester-le-Street | Giles Radice | Labour |
| Chichester | Anthony Nelson | Conservative |
| Chippenham | Richard Needham | Conservative |
| Chorley | Den Dover | Conservative |
| Christchurch and Lymington | Robert Adley | Conservative |
| Cirencester and Tewkesbury | Hon. Nicholas Ridley | Conservative |
| City of London and Westminster, South | Hon. Peter Brooke | Conservative |
| City of Westminster, Paddington | John Wheeler | Conservative |
| City of Westminster, St Marylebone | Kenneth Baker | Conservative |
| Cleveland and Whitby | Leon Brittan | Conservative |
| Clitheroe | David Waddington | Conservative |
| Coatbridge and Airdrie | James Dempsey | Labour |
| Colchester | Antony Buck | Conservative |
| Colne Valley | Richard Wainwright | Liberal |
| Consett | David Watkins | Labour |
| Conway | Wyn Roberts | Conservative |
| Cornwall, North | Gerrard Neale | Conservative |
| Coventry, North East | George Park | Labour |
| Coventry, North West | Geoffrey Robinson | Labour |
| Coventry, South East | William Wilson | Labour |
| Coventry, South West | John Butcher | Conservative |
| Crewe | Gwyneth Dunwoody | Labour |
| Crosby | Graham Page | Conservative |
| Croydon, Central | John Moore | Conservative |
| Croydon, North East | Bernard Weatherill | Conservative |
| Croydon, North West | Robert Taylor | Conservative |
| Croydon, South | William Clark | Conservative |
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| Darlington | Edward Fletcher | Labour |
| Dartford | Bob Dunn | Conservative |
| Darwen | Charles Fletcher-Cooke | Conservative |
| Daventry | Reginald Prentice | Conservative |
| Dearne Valley | Edwin Wainwright | Labour |
| Denbigh | Geraint Morgan | Conservative |
| Derby, North | Phillip Whitehead | Labour |
| Derby, South | Walter Johnson | Labour |
| Derbyshire, North East | Raymond Ellis | Labour |
| Derbyshire, South East | Peter Rost | Conservative |
| Derbyshire, West | Matthew Parris | Conservative |
| Devizes | Hon. Charles Morrison | Conservative |
| Devon, North | Antony Speller | Conservative |
| Devon, West | Peter Mills | Conservative |
| Dewsbury | David Ginsburg | Labour, then SDP |
| Doncaster | Harold Walker | Labour |
| Don Valley | Michael Welsh | Labour |
| Dorking | Keith Wickenden | Conservative |
| Dorset, North | Nicholas Baker | Conservative |
| Dorset, South | Viscount Cranborne | Conservative |
| Dorset, West | James Spicer | Conservative |
| Dover and Deal | Peter Rees | Conservative |
| Down, North | James Kilfedder | Independent Ulster Unionist |
| Down, South | Enoch Powell | Official Unionist |
| Dudley, East | John Gilbert | Labour |
| Dudley, West | John Blackburn | Conservative |
| Dumfries | Hector Monro | Conservative |
| Dunbartonshire, Central | Hugh McCartney | Labour |
| Dunbartonshire, East | Norman Hogg | Labour |
| Dunbartonshire, West | Ian Campbell | Labour |
| Dundee, East | Gordon Wilson | Scottish National Party |
| Dundee, West | Ernie Ross | Labour |
| Dunfermline | Richard Douglas | Labour Co-operative |
| Durham | Mark Hughes | Labour |
| Durham, North West | Ernest Armstrong | Labour |
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| Ealing, North | Harry Greenway | Conservative |
| Ealing, Southall | Sydney Bidwell | Labour |
| Easington | Jack Dormand | Labour |
| Eastbourne | Ian Gow | Conservative |
| East Grinstead | Geoffrey Johnson-Smith | Conservative |
| East Kilbride | Dr Maurice Miller | Labour |
| Eastleigh | David Price | Conservative |
| Ebbw Vale | Michael Foot | Labour |
| Eccles | Lewis Carter-Jones | Labour |
| Edinburgh, Central | Robin Cook | Labour |
| Edinburgh, East | Gavin Strang | Labour |
| Edinburgh, Leith | Ronald Brown | Labour |
| Edinburgh, North | Alex Fletcher | Conservative |
| Edinburgh, Pentlands | Malcolm Rifkind | Conservative |
| Edinburgh, South | Michael Ancram | Conservative |
| Edinburgh, West | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton | Conservative |
| Enfield, Edmonton | Edward Graham | Labour Co-operative |
| Enfield, North | Timothy Eggar | Conservative |
| Enfield, Southgate | Hon. Anthony Berry | Conservative |
| Epping Forest | John Biggs-Davison | Conservative |
| Epsom & Ewell | Hon. Archie Hamilton | Conservative |
| Esher | Carol Mather | Conservative |
| Essex, South East | Sir Bernard Braine | Conservative |
| Eton and Slough | Joan Lestor | Labour |
| Exeter | John Hannam | Conservative |
| Eye | John Gummer | Conservative |
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| Falmouth and Camborne | David Mudd | Conservative |
| Fareham | Peter Lloyd | Conservative |
| Farnham | Maurice Macmillan | Conservative |
| Farnworth | John Roper | Labour Co-operative, then SDP |
| Faversham | Roger Moate | Conservative |
| Fermanagh & South Tyrone | Frank Maguire | Independent Republican |
| Fife, Central | Willie Hamilton | Labour |
| Fife, East | Barry Henderson | Conservative |
| Flint, East | Barry Jones | Labour |
| Flint, West | Sir Anthony Meyer, Bt | Conservative |
| Folkestone and Hythe | Albert Costain | Conservative |
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| Gainsborough | Marcus Kimball | Conservative |
| Galloway | Ian Lang | Conservative |
| Gateshead, East | Bernard Conlan | Labour |
| Gateshead, West | John Horam | Labour, then SDP |
| Gillingham | Frederick Burden | Conservative |
| Glasgow, Cathcart | John Maxton | Labour |
| Glasgow, Central | Thomas McMillan | Labour |
| Glasgow, Craigton | Bruce Millan | Labour |
| Glasgow, Garscadden | Donald Dewar | Labour |
| Glasgow, Govan | Andrew McMahon | Labour |
| Glasgow, Hillhead | Thomas Galbraith | Conservative |
| Glasgow, Kelvingrove | Neil Carmichael | Labour |
| Glasgow, Maryhill | James Craigen | Labour Co-operative |
| Glasgow, Pollok | James White | Labour |
| Glasgow, Provan | Hugh Brown | Labour |
| Glasgow, Queen's Park | Frank McElhone | Labour |
| Glasgow, Shettleston | David Marshall | Labour |
| Glasgow, Springburn | Michael Martin | Labour |
| Gloucester | Sally Oppenheim | Conservative |
| Gloucestershire, South | John Cope | Conservative |
| Gloucestershire, West | Paul Marland | Conservative |
| Goole | Edmund Marshall | Labour |
| Gosport | Peter Viggers | Conservative |
| Gower | Ifor Davies | Labour |
| Grantham | Hon. Douglas Hogg | Conservative |
| Gravesend | Timothy Brinton | Conservative |
| Greenock and Port Glasgow | Dickson Mabon | Labour Co-operative, then SDP |
| Greenwich, Greenwich | Guy Barnett | Labour |
| Greenwich, Woolwich, East | John Cartwright | Labour, then SDP |
| Greenwich, Woolwich, West | Peter Bottomley | Conservative |
| Grimsby | Austin Mitchell | Labour |
| Guildford | David Howell | Conservative |
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| Hackney, Central | Stanley Clinton-Davis | Labour |
| Hackney, North and Stoke Newington | Ernest Roberts | Labour |
| Hackney, South and Shoreditch | Ronald Brown | Labour, then SDP |
| Halesowen and Stourbridge | John Stokes | Conservative |
| Halifax | Shirley Summerskill | Labour |
| Haltemprice | Patrick Wall | Conservative |
| Hamilton | George Robertson | Labour |
| Hammersmith, Fulham | Martin Stevens | Conservative |
| Hammersmith, North | Clive Soley | Labour |
| Harborough | John Farr | Conservative |
| Haringey, Hornsey | Hugh Rossi | Conservative |
| Haringey, Tottenham | Norman Atkinson | Labour |
| Haringey, Wood Green | Reg Race | Labour |
| Harlow | Stanley Newens | Labour Co-operative |
| Harrogate | Robert Banks | Conservative |
| Harrow, Central | Anthony Grant | Conservative |
| Harrow, East | Hugh Dykes | Conservative |
| Harrow, West | John Page | Conservative |
| Hartlepool | Edward Leadbitter | Labour |
| Harwich | Julian Ridsdale | Conservative |
| Hastings | Kenneth Warren | Conservative |
| Havant and Waterloo | Ian Lloyd | Conservative |
| Havering, Hornchurch | Robin Squire | Conservative |
| Havering, Romford | Michael Neubert | Conservative |
| Havering, Upminster | John Loveridge | Conservative |
| Hazel Grove | Tom Arnold | Conservative |
| Hemel Hempstead | Nicholas Lyell | Conservative |
| Hemsworth | Alec Woodall | Labour |
| Henley | Michael Heseltine | Conservative |
| Hereford | Colin Shepherd | Conservative |
| Hertford and Stevenage | Bowen Wells | Conservative |
| Hertfordshire, East | Sir Derek Walker-Smith, Bt | Conservative |
| Hertfordshire, South | Cecil Parkinson | Conservative |
| Hertfordshire, South West | Geoffrey Dodsworth | Conservative |
| Hexham | Geoffrey Rippon | Conservative |
| Heywood and Royton | Joel Barnett | Labour |
| High Peak | Spencer Le Marchant | Conservative |
| Hillingdon, Hayes and Harlington | Neville Sandelson | Labour, then SDP |
| Hillingdon, Ruislip-Northwood | John Wilkinson | Conservative |
| Hillingdon, Uxbridge | Michael Shersby | Conservative |
| Hitchin | Ian Stewart | Conservative |
| Holland with Boston | Richard Body | Conservative |
| Honiton | Peter Emery | Conservative |
| Horncastle | Peter Tapsell | Conservative |
| Horsham and Crawley | Peter Hordern | Conservative |
| Houghton-le-Spring | Thomas Urwin | Labour |
| Hounslow, Brentford and Isleworth | Barney Hayhoe | Conservative |
| Hounslow, Feltham and Heston | Russell Kerr | Labour |
| Hove | Hon. Tim Sainsbury | Conservative |
| Howden | Sir Paul Bryan | Conservative |
| Huddersfield, East | Barry Sheerman | Labour Co-operative |
| Huddersfield, West | Geoffrey Dickens | Conservative |
| Huntingdonshire | John Major | Conservative |
| Huyton | Sir Harold Wilson | Labour |
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| Ilkeston | Raymond Fletcher | Labour |
| Ince | Michael McGuire | Labour |
| Inverness | Russell Johnston | Liberal |
| Ipswich | Kenneth Weetch | Labour |
| Isle of Ely | Clement Freud | Liberal |
| Isle of Wight | Stephen Ross | Liberal |
| Islington, Central | John Grant | Labour, then SDP |
| Islington, North | Michael O'Halloran | Labour, then SDP, then Independent Labour |
| Islington, South and Finsbury | George Cunningham | Labour, then SDP |
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| Jarrow | Donald Dixon | Labour |
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| Keighley | Robert Cryer | Labour |
| Kensington and Chelsea, Chelsea | Nicholas Scott | Conservative |
| Kensington and Chelsea, Kensington | Sir Brandon Rhys-Williams, Bt | Conservative |
| Kettering | William Homewood | Labour |
| Kidderminster | Esmond Bulmer | Conservative |
| Kilmarnock | William McKelvey | Labour |
| Kingston upon Hull Central | Kevin McNamara | Labour |
| Kingston upon Hull East | John Prescott | Labour |
| Kingston upon Hull West | James Johnson | Labour |
| Kingston upon Thames | Norman Lamont | Conservative |
| Kingswood | Jack Aspinwall | Conservative |
| Kinross and West Perthshire | Nicholas Fairbairn | Conservative |
| Kirkcaldy | Harry Gourlay | Labour |
| Knutsford | Jock Bruce-Gardyne | Conservative |
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| Lambeth, Central | John Tilley | Labour Co-operative |
| Lambeth, Norwood | John Fraser | Labour |
| Lambeth, Streatham | William Shelton | Conservative |
| Lambeth, Vauxhall | Stuart Holland | Labour |
| Lanark | Judith Hart | Labour |
| Lanarkshire, North | John Smith | Labour |
| Lancaster | Elaine Kellett-Bowman | Conservative |
| Leeds, East | Denis Healey | Labour |
| Leeds, North East | Sir Keith Joseph, Bt | Conservative |
| Leeds, North West | Sir Donald Kaberry, Bt | Conservative |
| Leeds, South | Merlyn Rees | Labour |
| Leeds, South East | Stanley Cohen | Labour |
| Leeds, West | Joseph Dean | Labour |
| Leek | David Knox | Conservative |
| Leicester, East | Tom Bradley | Labour, then SDP |
| Leicester South | Jim Marshall | Labour |
| Leicester, West | Greville Janner | Labour |
| Leigh | Lawrence Cunliffe | Labour |
| Leominster | Peter Temple-Morris | Conservative |
| Lewes | Tim Rathbone | Conservative |
| Lewisham Deptford | Hon. John Silkin | Labour |
| Lewisham, East | Roland Moyle | Labour |
| Lewisham, West | Christopher Price | Labour |
| Lichfield and Tamworth | John Heddle | Conservative |
| Lincoln | Kenneth Carlisle | Conservative |
| Liverpool, Edge Hill | David Alton | Liberal |
| Liverpool, Garston | Malcolm Thornton | Conservative |
| Liverpool, Kirkdale | James Dunn | Labour, then SDP |
| Liverpool, Scotland Exchange | | Labour |
| Liverpool, Toxteth | Richard Crawshaw | Labour, then SDP |
| Liverpool, Walton | Eric Heffer | Labour |
| Liverpool, Wavertree | Anthony Steen | Conservative |
| Liverpool, West Derby | Eric Ogden | Labour, then SDP |
| Llanelli | Denzil Davies | Labour |
| Londonderry | William Ross | Official Unionist |
| Loughborough | Stephen Dorrell | Conservative |
| Louth | Michael Brotherton | Conservative |
| Lowestoft | James Prior | Conservative |
| Ludlow | Eric Cockeram | Conservative |
| Luton, East | Graham Bright | Conservative |
| Luton, West | John Russell Carlisle | Conservative |
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| Macclesfield | Nicholas Winterton | Conservative |
| Maidstone | John Wells | Conservative |
| Maldon | John Wakeham | Conservative |
| Manchester, Ardwick | Gerald Kaufman | Labour |
| Manchester, Blackley | Kenneth Eastham | Labour |
| Manchester, Central | Harold Lever | Labour |
| Manchester, Gorton | Kenneth Marks | Labour |
| Manchester, Moss Side | George Morton | Labour |
| Manchester, Openshaw | Charles Morris | Labour |
| Manchester, Withington | Frederick Silvester | Conservative |
| Manchester, Wythenshawe | Alfred Morris | Labour Co-operative |
| Mansfield | Don Concannon | Labour |
| Melton | Michael Latham | Conservative |
| Meriden | Iain Mills | Conservative |
| Merioneth | Dafydd Thomas | Plaid Cymru |
| Merthyr Tydfil | Edward Rowlands | Labour |
| Merton, Mitcham and Morden | Bruce Douglas-Mann | Labour, then Ind SDP |
| Merton, Wimbledon | Sir Michael Havers | Conservative |
| Middleton and Prestwich | James Callaghan | Labour |
| Midlothian | Alexander Eadie | Labour |
| Monmouth | John Stradling Thomas | Conservative |
| Montgomery | Delwyn Williams | Conservative |
| Moray and Nairn | Alexander Pollock | Conservative |
| Morecambe and Lonsdale | Hon. Mark Lennox-Boyd | Conservative |
| Morpeth | George Grant | Labour |
| Motherwell and Wishaw | Jeremy Bray | Labour |
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| Nantwich | Sir Nicholas Bonsor, Bt | Conservative |
| Neath | Donald Coleman | Labour |
| Nelson and Colne | John Lee | Conservative |
| Newark | Richard Alexander | Conservative |
| Newbury | Michael McNair-Wilson | Conservative |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | John Golding | Labour |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, Central | Harry Cowans | Labour |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, East | Mike Thomas | Labour Co-operative, then SDP |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, North | Sir William Elliott | Conservative |
| Newcastle upon Tyne, West | Robert Brown | Labour |
| New Forest | Patrick McNair-Wilson | Conservative |
| Newham, North East | Ronald Leighton | Labour |
| Newham, North West | Arthur Lewis | Labour |
| Newham, South | Nigel Spearing | Labour |
| Newport | Roy Hughes | Labour |
| Newton | John Evans | Labour |
| Norfolk North | Ralph Howell | Conservative |
| Norfolk, North West | Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler | Conservative, then SDP |
| Norfolk, South | John MacGregor | Conservative |
| Norfolk, South West | Sir Paul Hawkins | Conservative |
| Normanton | Albert Roberts | Labour |
| Northampton, North | Antony Marlow | Conservative |
| Northampton, South | Michael Morris | Conservative |
| North Fylde | Walter Clegg | Conservative |
| Northwich | Alastair Goodlad | Conservative |
| Norwich, North | David Ennals | Labour |
| Norwich, South | John Garrett | Labour |
| Nottingham, East | Jack Dunnett | Labour |
| Nottingham, North | William Whitlock | Labour |
| Nottingham, West | Michael English | Labour |
| Nuneaton | Leslie Huckfield | Labour |
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| Ogmore | Raymond Powell | Labour |
| Oldham, East | James Lamond | Labour |
| Oldham, West | Michael Meacher | Labour |
| Orkney and Shetland | Jo Grimond | Liberal |
| Ormskirk | Robert Kilroy-Silk | Labour |
| Oswestry | John Biffen | Conservative |
| Oxford | John Patten | Conservative |
| Oxfordshire, Mid | Hon. Douglas Hurd | Conservative |
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| Paisley | Allen Adams | Labour |
| Pembrokeshire | Nicholas Edwards | Conservative |
| Penistone | Allen McKay | Labour |
| Penrith and The Border | William Whitelaw | Conservative |
| Perth and East Perthshire | Bill Walker | Conservative |
| Peterborough | Brian Mawhinney | Conservative |
| Petersfield | Lt.-Col. Michael Mates | Conservative |
| Plymouth, Devonport | David Owen | Labour, then SDP |
| Plymouth, Drake | Janet Fookes | Conservative |
| Plymouth, Sutton | Alan Clark | Conservative |
| Pontefract and Castleford | Geoffrey Lofthouse | Labour |
| Pontypool | Leo Abse | Labour |
| Pontypridd | Brynmor John | Labour |
| Poole | John Ward | Conservative |
| Portsmouth, North | Peter Griffiths | Conservative |
| Portsmouth, South | Bonner Pink | Conservative |
| Preston, North | Robert Atkins | Conservative |
| Preston, South | Stanley Thorne | Labour |
| Pudsey | Giles Shaw | Conservative |
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| Reading, North | Anthony Durant | Conservative |
| Reading, South | Gerard Vaughan | Conservative |
| Redbridge, Ilford, North | Vivian Bendall | Conservative |
| Redbridge, Ilford, South | Neil Thorne | Conservative |
| Redbridge, Wanstead and Woodford | Patrick Jenkin | Conservative |
| Reigate | George Gardiner | Conservative |
| Renfrewshire, East | Allan Stewart | Conservative |
| Renfrewshire, West | Norman Buchan | Labour |
| Rhondda | Alec Jones | Labour |
| Richmond upon Thames, Richmond | Sir Anthony Royle | Conservative |
| Richmond upon Thames, Twickenham | Toby Jessel | Conservative |
| Richmond (Yorkshire) | Sir Timothy Kitson | Conservative |
| Ripon | Keith Hampson | Conservative |
| Rochdale | Cyril Smith | Liberal |
| Rochester and Chatham | Peggy Fenner | Conservative |
| Ross and Cromarty | Hamish Gray | Conservative |
| Rossendale | David Trippier | Conservative |
| Rotherham | Stanley Crowther | Labour |
| Rother Valley | Peter Hardy | Labour |
| Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles | David Steel | Liberal |
| Royal Tunbridge Wells | Patrick Mayhew | Conservative |
| Rugby | Jim Pawsey | Conservative |
| Runcorn | Mark Carlisle | Conservative |
| Rushcliffe | Kenneth Clarke | Conservative |
| Rutherglen | Gregor Mackenzie | Labour |
| Rutland and Stamford | Kenneth Lewis | Conservative |
| Rye | Godman Irvine | Conservative |
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| Saffron Walden | Alan Haselhurst | Conservative |
| St Albans | Victor Goodhew | Conservative |
| St Helens | Leslie Spriggs | Labour |
| St Ives | John Nott | Conservative |
| Salford, East | Frank Allaun | Labour |
| Salford, West | Stanley Orme | Labour |
| Salisbury | Michael Hamilton | Conservative |
| Scarborough | Michael Shaw | Conservative |
| Sevenoaks | Mark Wolfson | Conservative |
| Sheffield, Attercliffe | Patrick Duffy | Labour |
| Sheffield, Brightside | Joan Maynard | Labour |
| Sheffield, Hallam | John Osborn | Conservative |
| Sheffield, Heeley | Frank Hooley | Labour |
| Sheffield, Hillsborough | Martin Flannery | Labour |
| Sheffield, Park | Frederick Mulley | Labour |
| Shipley | Marcus Fox | Conservative |
| Shoreham | Richard Luce | Conservative |
| Shrewsbury | Sir John Langford-Holt | Conservative |
| Skipton | John Watson | Conservative |
| Solihull | Percy Grieve | Conservative |
| Somerset, North | Paul Dean | Conservative |
| Southampton, Itchen | Bob Mitchell | Labour, then SDP |
| Southampton, Test | James Hill | Conservative |
| Southend, East | Sir Stephen McAdden | Conservative |
| Southend, West | Paul Channon | Conservative |
| South Fylde | Edward Gardner | Conservative |
| Southport | Ian Percival | Conservative |
| South Shields | David G. Clark | Labour |
| Southwark, Bermondsey | Robert Mellish | Labour |
| Southwark, Dulwich | Hon. Samuel Silkin | Labour |
| Southwark, Peckham | Harry Lamborn | Labour |
| Sowerby | Donald Thompson | Conservative |
| Spelthorne | Humphrey Atkins | Conservative |
| Stafford and Stone | Hon. Hugh Fraser | Conservative |
| Staffordshire, South West | Patrick Cormack | Conservative |
| Stalybridge and Hyde | Tom Pendry | Labour |
| Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth | Harry Ewing | Labour |
| Stirlingshire, East and Clackmannan | Martin O'Neill | Labour |
| Stirlingshire, West | Dennis Canavan | Labour |
| Stockport, North | Andrew Bennett | Labour |
| Stockport, South | Tom McNally | Labour, then SDP |
| Stoke-on-Trent, Central | Robert Cant | Labour |
| Stoke-on-Trent, North | John Forrester | Labour |
| Stoke-on-Trent, South | Jack Ashley | Labour |
| Stratford-on-Avon | Angus Maude | Conservative |
| Stretford | Winston Churchill | Conservative |
| Stroud | Anthony Kershaw | Conservative |
| Sudbury and Woodbridge | Keith Stainton | Conservative |
| Sunderland, North | Frederick Willey | Labour |
| Sunderland, South | Gordon Bagier | Labour |
| Surbiton | Sir Nigel Fisher | Conservative |
| Surrey, East | Sir Geoffrey Howe | Conservative |
| Surrey, North West | Michael Grylls | Conservative |
| Sussex, Mid | Tim Renton | Conservative |
| Sutton, Carshalton | Nigel Forman | Conservative |
| Sutton, Sutton and Cheam | Neil Macfarlane | Conservative |
| Sutton Coldfield | Norman Fowler | Conservative |
| Swansea, East | Donald Anderson | Labour |
| Swansea, West | Alan Williams | Labour |
| Swindon | David Stoddart | Labour |
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| Taunton | Edward du Cann | Conservative |
| Teesside, Middlesbrough | Arthur Bottomley | Labour |
| Teesside, Redcar | James Tinn | Labour |
| Teesside, Stockton | William Rodgers | Labour, then SDP |
| Teesside, Thornaby | Ian Wrigglesworth | Labour Co-operative, then SDP |
| Thanet, East | Jonathan Aitken | Conservative |
| Thanet, West | William Rees-Davies | Conservative |
| Thirsk and Malton | John Spence | Conservative |
| Thurrock | Oonagh McDonald | Labour |
| Tiverton | Robin Maxwell-Hyslop | Conservative |
| Tonbridge and Malling | John Stanley | Conservative |
| Torbay | Sir Frederic Bennett | Conservative |
| Totnes | Ray Mawby | Conservative |
| Tower Hamlets, Bethnal Green and Bow | Ian Mikardo | Labour |
| Tower Hamlets, Stepney and Poplar | Peter Shore | Labour |
| Truro | David Penhaligon | Liberal |
| Tynemouth | Neville Trotter | Conservative |
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| Ulster, Mid | John Dunlop | United Ulster Unionist |
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| Wakefield | Walter Harrison | Labour |
| Wallasey | Lynda Chalker | Conservative |
| Wallsend | Ted Garrett | Labour |
| Walsall, North | David Winnick | Labour |
| Walsall, South | Bruce George | Labour |
| Waltham Forest, Chingford | Norman Tebbit | Conservative |
| Waltham Forest, Leyton | Bryan Magee | Labour, then SDP |
| Waltham Forest, Walthamstow | Eric Deakins | Labour |
| Wandsworth, Battersea, North | Douglas Jay | Labour |
| Wandsworth, Battersea, South | Alfred Dubs | Labour |
| Wandsworth, Putney | David Mellor | Conservative |
| Wandsworth, Tooting | Tom Cox | Labour |
| Warley, East | Andrew Faulds | Labour |
| Warley, West | Peter Archer | Labour |
| Warrington | Sir Thomas Williams | Labour Co-operative |
| Warwick and Leamington | Dudley Smith | Conservative |
| Watford | Tristan Garel-Jones | Conservative |
| Wellingborough | Peter Fry | Conservative |
| Wells | Hon. Robert Boscawen | Conservative |
| Welwyn and Hatfield | Christopher Murphy | Conservative |
| West Bromwich, East | Peter Snape | Labour |
| West Bromwich, West | Betty Boothroyd | Labour |
| Westbury | Dennis Walters | Conservative |
| Western Isles | Donald Stewart | Scottish National Party |
| Westhoughton | Roger Stott | Labour |
| West Lothian | Tam Dalyell | Labour |
| Westmorland | Michael Jopling | Conservative |
| Weston-super-Mare | Jerry Wiggin | Conservative |
| Whitehaven | John Cunningham | Labour |
| Widnes | Gordon Oakes | Labour |
| Wigan | Alan Fitch | Labour |
| Winchester | John Browne | Conservative |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | Alan Glyn | Conservative |
| Wirral | David Hunt | Conservative |
| Woking | Cranley Onslow | Conservative |
| Wokingham | William van Straubenzee | Conservative |
| Wolverhampton, North East | Renee Short | Labour |
| Wolverhampton, South East | Robert Edwards | Labour Co-operative |
| Wolverhampton, South West | Nicholas Budgen | Conservative |
| Worcester | Peter Walker | Conservative |
| Worcestershire, South | Michael Spicer | Conservative |
| Workington | Dale Campbell-Savours | Labour |
| Worthing | Terence Higgins | Conservative |
| Wrekin, The | Warren Hawksley | Conservative |
| Wrexham | Tom Ellis | Labour, then SDP |
| Wycombe | Ray Whitney | Conservative |
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| Yarmouth | Anthony Fell | Conservative |
| Yeovil | John Peyton | Conservative |
| York | Alexander Lyon | Labour | |
See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.
