List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies represented by sitting prime ministers

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.

	County	Prime Minister	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	^{[note 1]}
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	^{[note 2]}
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	William Pitt the Younger	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	^{[note 2]}
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	^{[note 2]}
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	^{[note 1]}
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	^{[note 1]}
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	Winston Churchill	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	Clement Attlee	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	Sir Alec Douglas-Home	8 November 1963	16 October 1964
Kinross and Western Perthshire	Perthshire	Sir Alec Douglas-Home	8 November 1963	16 October 1964
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	Edward Heath	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
South West Norfolk	Norfolk	Elizabeth Truss	6 September 2022	25 October 2022
Richmond (Yorks)	North Yorkshire	Rishi Sunak	25 October 2022	Incumbent

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Scottish Peers wasn't allowed to sit in the House of Lords unless they were Representative Peers or held Imperial Peerages (i.e. Peerage of Great Britain and Peerage of the United Kingdom), until the Peerage Act 1963 which Scottish Peers had an automatic seat in the House of Lords until the House of Lords Act 1999.
^ ^a ^b ^c Irish Peers wasn't allowed to sit in the House of Lords unless they were Representative Peers (from 1801 to 1921) or held Imperial Peerages (i.e. Peerage of Great Britain and Peerage of the United Kingdom), until the House of Lords Act 1999, but they had the right of to stand for election to the House of Commons as Lord Palmerston did during both his premierships.