This is a complete list of members of parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1950 general election, held on 23 February 1950.
Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included Edward Heath, Horace King, Fred Mulley, Bernard Braine, Harry Hylton-Foster, Iain Macleod, Gerald Nabarro, Reginald Maudling, Robert Carr, Bill Deedes, Enoch Powell, David Ormsby-Gore, Christopher Soames, Anthony Crosland, Jo Grimond and Tony Benn.
Tony Benn was the last MP elected in 1950 to leave Parliament, vacating Chesterfield in 2001 after retiring from politics following a 3-decade backbench period, where he spent his final years vigorously opposing the Labour leader and prime minister Tony Blair's foreign policy as leader of the Stop the War Coalition. He made a record three unsuccessful challenges for Labour leadership from the left of the party.
Composition These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties in the 1950 general election.
Note: This is not the official seating plan of the House of Commons, which has five rows of benches on each side, with the government party to the right of the speaker and opposition parties to the left, but with room for only around two-thirds of MPs to sit at any one time.
Affiliation Members Labour Party315 Conservative Party*246 Unionist26 National Liberal*16 UUP*10 Liberal Party9 Independent Nationalist2 Independent Liberal1 Total 625 Effective government majority 5
The National Liberals, (Scottish) Unionists and Ulster Unionists were in alliance with the Conservatives, bringing total Conservative strength to 298 seats.