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→Composition
The last elections to the House of Commons took place in May 2010. The current distribution of MPs is as follows:
The last elections to the House of Commons took place in May 2010. The current distribution of MPs is as follows:
[[Conservative Party]]: 307 seats<ref>Including the [[Speaker]], who is non-partisan</ref>
[[Conservative Party]]: 307 seats<ref>Including [[Speaker]] John Bercow and Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, neither of whom vote. Officialy Bercow does not stand for the Conservatives, instead listed as "Speaker seeking re-election" </ref>
[[Labour Party]]: 258 seats
[[Labour Party]]: 257 seats<ref>Including the Deputy Speakers Lindsay Hoyle and Nigel Evans, neither of whom vote.</ref>
[[Liberal Democrats]]: 57 seats
[[Liberal Democrats]]: 57 seats
[[Scottish National Party]] (Scottish nationalists): 6 seats
[[Scottish National Party]] (Scottish nationalists): 6 seats
[[Sinn Fein]] (Irish nationalists): 5 seats<ref>Sinn Fein have a policy of abstentionism and do not take their seats</ref>
[[Sinn Fein]] (Irish nationalists): 4 seats<ref>Sinn Fein have a policy of abstentionism and do not take their seats</ref>
[[Plaid Cymru]] (Welsh Nationalists): 3 seats
[[Plaid Cymru]] (Welsh Nationalists): 3 seats
[[Alliance Party]] (Northern Irish nonsecretarians): 1 seat
[[Alliance Party]] (Northern Irish nonsecretarians): 1 seat
Independent (Sylvia Hermon, MP for North Down): 1 seat
Independent: 2 seats <ref>Sylvia Hermon, MP for North Down, had represented the [[Ulster Unionist Party]] since 2001. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8586845.stm She resigned from the party] shortly before the 2010 election, due to disagreeing with the UUP-Conservative pact.</ref><ref>Denis MacShane, MP for Rotherham, was suspended from the Labour Party in October 2010 after the [[Metropolitan Police]] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/14/labour-whip-former-minister-police began an investigation into his conduct.]</ref>
''vacant'': 1 seat <ref>Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein's MP for Belfast West, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12246725 resigned] in January 2011 in order to contest the upcoming [[Republic of Ireland]] general election. A date for the by-election has not yet been set.</ref>
TOTAL: 650
TOTAL: 650