Support in Scotland was critical to Labour's overall electoral fortunes as without Scottish MPs it would have gained only two UK electoral victories in the 20th century ( 1945 and 1966 ).

The election defeat also meant that the Tories were left without any MPs in Scotland or Wales, failing to win a single seat outside England.

Result: 54 pro ( Social Democrats, Social Liberals, People's Union, Pro Patria Union and Reform Party ) without no against or neutral MPs.

The fact that the parliamentary bill authorising the drowning went through without support from any Welsh MPs showed that the MPs ' votes in Westminster were not enough to prevent such bills from passing.

As many MPs return to their constituencies on Thursday night, this has the practical effect of blocking all private members ' bills without solid support.

Although elected, Jenkins resigned the SDP leadership and Owen succeeded to it without a contest among the 6 remaining SDP MPs.

Although prime ministers have answered questions in parliament for centuries, until the 1880s questions to the prime minister were treated the same as questions to other Ministers of the Crown: asked without notice, on days when ministers were available in whatever order MPs rose to ask them.

In the 1931 general election he was returned as one of five ILP MPs without Labour Party support.

However, two British MPs raised the matter in the House of Commons, which meant that British newspapers were able to report what had been said without fear of being sued for libel.

The ban was introduced by fellow MPs without the need for a vote.

In 2003, he was one of a large number of Labour MPs who voted against the Iraq War ; he later rebelled against the party line when he voted against government policy to allow terror suspects to be detained without trial for 90 days.

Doughty is a Quaker and upon her departure in 2005, left Parliament without any Quaker MPs for the first time in 150 years.

Kelly gave the go-ahead in 2007 for billions of pounds of public money to be spent on the Crossrail project in London which caused outrage amongst MPs in other cities, especially Manchester, who have been told no public transport funding will be given without a Congestion Charge scheme.

Lloyd joined the considerable number of Labour MPs in choosing to vote against government policy regarding the Iraq War, following this he sided with the sizable number of Labour MPs who rebelled against government policy to detain terror suspects for 90 days without trial, further, in 2007 Lloyd also voted against the renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile System.

On 9 November 2005 he was the only Conservative MP, and one of only two non-Labour MPs, to vote in favour of a proposal to allow police to detain terror suspects for up to 90 days without charge.

The resulting February 18, 1980 election not only defeated the Clark government but wiped out the Socreds ; their popular vote collapsed and the party ended up without any MPs.

In 1863 he was returned without opposition as one of the four MPs for the City of London in the Liberal interest, and he was reelected in 1865.

In 1998, he was one of only two UUP MPs to support the Good Friday Agreement without reservation, and he backed UUP leader David Trimble until the end of Trimble's own political career in 2005.

Three cabinet ministers urged Stevens to challenge Bennett for the leadership of the party within the Conservative caucus and a total of 72 of the 137 Conservative MPs pledged to support Stevens, but he declined to challenge Bennett for the party leadership without a leadership convention and, instead, quit the Conservatives to form the Reconstruction Party of Canada to run in the 1935 Canadian election.

He asked that all House leaders, ministers and MPs to come to a collective solution by May 11, 2010 " without compromising the security and confidentiality contained.

Although the National government had enough MPs to govern without the Māori Party, it invited the Māori Party to support their minority government on confidence and supply in return for policy concessions and two ministerial posts outside of Cabinet.

With the government as whole commanding the support of five hundred and fifty-six MPs, as opposed to just fifty-eight opposition members, his main task was to ensure that the government stayed together and was able to pass contentious legislation without risking a major breach within the government.

Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates – this " coupon " as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.

In March, at about the same time as Lyons led his group of defectors from the right of the Labor Party across the floor, 5 left-wing NSW Labor MPs, supporters of New South Wales Premier Jack Lang, also split from the official Labor Party over the government's economic policies ( for Lyons they had been too radical, for the Langites they were not radical enough ), forming a " Lang Labor " group on the cross-benches and costing the government its majority in the House of Representatives.

As a result of the Bloc being the official opposition, it had considerable privileges over the other parties despite only electing MPs from one province.

By electing only four MPs the Bloc failed to reach the minimum of 12 seats required for official party status in the House of Commons.

In 1992 a number of MPs registered an official complaint about this practice, with some commenting that it " has undoubtedly been retained to deter honourable Members from raising points of order during divisions by making them appear ridiculous and feel acutely embarrassed ".< Ref > Early day motion 1623 In 1998 it was recommended that the opera hat be abandoned, since " although some Members may feel that they look particularly fetching in it, it makes the House of Commons look ridiculous when someone wearing the hat is trying to raise a point of order from a seated position while everyone else is milling around and going to vote.

In spite of official objections to intolerance by the party leadership and some Reformer MPs, comments and decisions made at party conventions by Reform Party supporters on a number of issues were considered highly intolerant by onlookers.

The party currently has 12 MPs in the Finnish Eduskunta: it won 14 seats in the latest election, but two MPs were expelled from the parliamentary group after repeatedly breaking from the official party line.

The Irish Parliamentary Party ( IPP ; commonly called the Irish Party or the Home Rule Party ; in Irish Páirtí Parlaiminteach na hÉireann ) was formed in 1882 by Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament ( MPs ) elected to the House of Commons at Westminster within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland up until 1918.

Several Conservative MPs voted against the official party line, and Duncan-Smith's authority was weakened.

After the general election and with Lloyd George now detached at the head of a group of Independent Liberals, Samuel became the official leader of the Liberals but faced a party predominantly divided with over half the MPs in the Liberal National faction of Sir John Simon.

Gwee, a Democratic Action Party ( DAP ) MP, reportedly argued that there was no stated order to wear the official attire and songkok and stated his desire to wear a western suit, promptly drew flak from other MPs and the Menteri Besar, Abdul Ghani Othman who had earlier on met to agree to don in the official attire and songkok prior to the assembly, whereby Gwee was absent.

Although the election officially resulted in a minority government, the election of eight " Independent Liberal " MPs, most of whom did not run as official Liberals because of their opposition to conscription ( see Conscription Crisis of 1944 ), gave the King government an effective working majority in parliament.

At the state opening, MPs were summoned to the House of Lords from the House of Commons chamber by Black Rod, a royal official who would " command the members on behalf of His Excellency to attend him in the chamber of peers ".

As with PMQs, the official opposition spokesmen are allocated a number of questions, and in addition backbench MPs are free to ask questions.

However, the election of eight " Independent Liberal " MPs, most of whom did not run as official Liberals because of their opposition to conscription ( see Conscription Crisis of 1944 ), as well as one Liberal-Progressive, gave the King government an effective working majority in parliament.

All the elected MPs had held a Coalition coupon, although nine candidates stood against official Coalition candidates, none of who secured a seat.

The party's official leader, David Lloyd George was incapacitated at this time but called for the Liberals to abandon the government altogether and stand independently in defence of Free Trade but this call was heeded only by four other MPs, all related to him.

The BCP was formed by 11 sitting MPs and immediately became the official opposition in parliament.

New Democrat MPs voted in favour of the 1969 Official Languages Act, the 1988 Official Languages Act, and the protections for the two official languages contained in the Charter of Rights.

Although the main objective of the Bloc Québécois is to assist in the secession of Quebec, the party ’ s parliamentary caucus has maintained an active interest in issues relating to official languages policy ( for example, sending MPs to participate in the standing Commons committee on official languages ).

Law followed just a handful of previous MPs and AMs in Wales who won the same constituency as both a party candidate and an independent, following S. O. Davies who was MP for Merthyr Tydfil from 1934 until his death in 1972, who was deselected by the local Labour Party on grounds of age prior to the 1970 general election but ran against the official candidate as an independent and won ; and John Marek who remained AM for Wrexham, later forming his own party, Forward Wales.