State of the Parties in the House of Commons
as at 9 May 2008

Labour	351	Independent Labour (Clare Short)	1
Conservative	192	Independent Conservative (Andrew Pelling, Derek Conway)	2
Liberal Democrat	63	Independent (Dr Richard Taylor, Dai Davies, Robert Wareing)	3
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	UK Independence (Dr Bob Spink)	1
Sinn Fein (Messrs Adams, Doherty, McGuinness, Murphy & Ms Gildernew)	5 (Have not taken their seats and cannot vote)	The Speaker and 3 Deputies (Sir Alan Haselhurst, CWM; Mrs Sylvia Heal, 1st DCWM; Sir Michael Lord, 2nd DCWM)	4 (Do not normally vote)
Social Democratic & Labour Party (Messrs Durkan, McDonnell, McGrady)	3	Vacant seats (Crewe and Nantwich)	1
Ulster Unionist (Lady Hermon)	1	Total number of seats Current working Government Majority (351 Labour MPs less 285 of all other parties - excludes Speaker & Deputies and Sinn Fein)	646 66

The total number of women MPs is 125: (Lab 94; 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)	23.7.2007	8.10.2007
Ealing Southall	Death of Piara Khabra (Lab) (19.6.2007)	19.7.2007	Virendra Kumar Sharma (Lab)	23.7.2007	8.10.2007
Crewe and Nantwich	Death of Gwyneth Dunwoody (Lab) (17.4.2008)	22.05.2008

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