State of the Parties in the House of Commons
as at 25 October 2007

Labour	353	Social Democratic Labour Party (Messrs Durkan, McDonnell, McGrady)	3
Conservative	195	Independent Labour Clare Short	1
Liberal Democrat	63	Independent Dr Richard Taylor Dai Davies	2
Scottish National Party / Plaid Cymru (SNP - Messrs Robertson, Salmond, Weir, Wishart, MacNeil & Hosie / PC - Messrs Llwyd, Price, H Williams)	9	Respect George Galloway	1
Democratic Unionist Party (Messrs Campbell, Dodds, Donaldson, McCrea, Paisley, P Robinson, Ms Iris Robinson, Simpson, Wilson)	9	The Speaker and 3 Deputies (Sir Alan Haselhurst, CWM; Mrs Sylvia Heal, 1st DCWM; Sir Michael Lord, 2nd DCWM)	4 (Do not normally vote)
Ulster Unionist (Lady Hermon)	1	Vacant seats	0
Sinn Fein (Messrs Adams, Doherty, McGuinness, Murphy & Ms Gildernew)	5 (Have not taken their seats and cannot vote)	Total number of seats Current working Government Majority (353 Labour MPs less 284 of all other parties - excludes Speaker & Deputies and Sinn Fein)	646 69

The total number of women MPs is 126

(Lab 95; Con 17; LD 9; DU 1; SF 1; UU 1; DCWM 1; Ind Lab 1)

CWM: Chairman of Ways and Means

1st DCWM: 1st Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means

2nd DCWM: 2nd Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means

By-Elections and new MPs since the General Election of May 2005

Vacancy	Cause	By -Election	New Member	Date of introduction	Maiden Speech
Cheadle	Death of Patsy Calton (LD) (29.5.2005)	14.7.2005	Mark Hunter (LD)	19.7.2005	21.7.2005
Livingston	Death of Robin Cook (Lab) (6.8.2005)	29.9.2005	Jim Devine (Lab)	10.10.2005	25.10.2005
Dunfermline and West Fife	Death of Rachel Squire (Lab) (5.1.2006)	9.2.2006	Willie Rennie (LD)	13.2.2006	1.3.2006
Blaenau Gwent	Death of Peter Law (Ind) (25.4.2006)	29.6.2006	Dai Davies (Ind)	4.7.2006	20.7.2006
Bromley & Chislehurst	Death of Eric Forth (Con) (18.5.2006)	29.6.2006	Bob Neill (Con)	3.7.2006	19.7.2006
Sedgefield	Resignation of the Rt Hon Tony Blair (Lab) (27.6.2007)	19.7.2007	Phil Wilson (Lab)	-	-
Ealing Southall	Death of Piara Khabra (Lab) (19.6.2007)	19.7.2007	Virendra Kumar Sharma (Lab)	-	-

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