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.
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- 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.
- 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.
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