MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, October 1974
- MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, October 1974
By-elections
See the list of United Kingdom by-elections.
Four seats were vacant when Parliament was dissolved preparatory to the 1979 General Election:
*Abingdon – Airey Neave (Con)
*Batley and Morley – Alfred Broughton (Lab)
*Chipping Barnet – Reginald Maudling (Con)
*North East Derbyshire – Tom Swain (Lab)
In addition, Maurice Orbach (Labour MP for Stockport South) died on 24 April, after dissolution but before the general election.
Defections
* April 14, 1976: John Stonehouse (Walsall North) defects from Labour to English National Party
* July 26, 1976: James Sillars (Ayrshire South) and John Robertson (Paisley) resign from Labour Party and sit as Scottish Labour
*1977-1978 The Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party fell apart. William Craig (East Belfast) and Robert Bradford (South Belfast) joined the Ulster Unionist Party. John Dunlop joined the United Ulster Unionist Party.
*c1977 James Kilfedder (North Down) left the Ulster Unionist Party and sat as an independent unionist.
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