List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service
List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service is an annotated list of the Members of the United Kingdom Parliament since 1900 having total service of less than 365 days.

List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service

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Table Section Text: List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service is an annotated list of the Members of the United Kingdom Parliament since 1900 having total service of less than 365 days.

Member	Party	Constituency	Election date	Nominal service (days)	Took the Oath	Maiden speech	Effective service (days)	Notes

Thomas Higgins	Irish Parliamentary	North Galway, 1906	25 January 1906	0	N	N	0	Died

Alfred Dobbs	Labour	Smethwick, 1945	26 July 1945	1	N	N	0	Died

James Annand	Liberal	East Aberdeenshire, 1906	24 January 1906	16	N	N	0	Died

Bobby Sands	Anti H-Block	Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981	9 April 1981	25	N	N	0	Died

Harry Wrightson	Conservative	Leyton West, 1918	28 December 1918	32	N	N	0	Died

Joseph Nicholas Bell	Labour	Newcastle East, 1922	15 November 1922	32	N	N	0	Died

Henry Francis Compton	Conservative	New Forest by-election, 1905	6 December 1905	46	N	N	0	Defeated at next general election

Hugh Alfred Anderson	Irish Unionist	North Londonderry, 1918	28 December 1918	47	10 February 1919	N	3	Resigned

Michael Carr	Labour	Bootle by-election, May 1990	24 May 1990	57	5 June 1990	14 June 1990	45	Died

Alexander Theodore Gordon	Conservative	Aberdeen and Kincardine Central, 1918	28 December 1918	68	5 February 1919	N	29	Died

Pierce McCan	Sinn Féin	East Tipperary, 1918	28 December 1918	68	N	N	0	Died

Donald Bennett	Liberal	Middlesbrough West by-election, 1945	14 May 1945	73	15 May 1945	N	31	Defeated at next general election

Oswald O'Brien	Labour	Darlington by-election, 1983	24 March 1983	77	29 March 1983	14 April 1983	45	Defeated at next general election

John Dumphreys	Conservative	Bermondsey by-election, 1909	28 October 1909	83	1 November 1909	N	70	Defeated at next general election

Charles James Mathew	Labour	Whitechapel and St. George's, 1922	15 November 1922	85	21 November 1922	N	48	Died

Seaborne Davies	Liberal	Caernarvon Boroughs by-election, 1945	26 April 1945	91	1 May 1945	11 June 1945	45	Defeated at next general election

Joseph Ormond Andrews	Liberal	Barkston Ash by-election, 1905	13 October 1905	97	N	N	0	Defeated at next general election

Robert McIntyre	SNP	Motherwell by-election, 1945	12 April 1945	104	17 April 1945	1 May 1945	59	Defeated at next general election

Ruth Dalton	Labour	Bishop Auckland by-election, 1929	7 February 1929	112	12 February 1929	13 March 1929	87	Retired at next general election

Margo MacDonald	SNP	Glasgow Govan by-election, 1973	8 November 1973	112	22 November 1973	11 December 1973	78	Defeated at next general election

George Knox Anderson	Conservative	Canterbury by-election, 1918	9 August 1918	113	15 October 1918	N	41	Retired at next general election

Herbert Evans	Labour	Gateshead by-election, 1931	8 June 1931	121	11 June 1931	14 September 1931	118	Died

Sir Henry Wilson	Irish Unionist	North Down by-election, February 1922	21 February 1922	121	23 February 1922	21 March 1922	119	Assassinated

John William Sunderland	Labour	Preston, 1945	26 July 1945	121	2 August 1945	11 October 1945	114	Died

Charles Beattie	Ulster Unionist	Mid Ulster by-election, 1955	11 August 1955	123	25 October 1955	N	105	Disqualified

George Henry Williamson	Conservative	Worcester, 1906	17 January 1906	128	Y	N	100 (approximately)	Unseated

Harold St. Maur	Liberal	Exeter, Dec 1910	3 December 1910	129	Y	22 February 1911	55 (approximately)	Unseated

John Edmondson Whittaker	Labour	Heywood and Radcliffe, 1945	26 July 1945	136	2 August 1945	16 October 1945	129	Died (suicide)

Richard Mathias	Liberal	Cheltenham, Dec 1910	5 December 1910	144	1 February 1911	N	68	Unseated

George Brown Hillman	Conservative	Wakefield, 1931	27 October 1931	144	4 November 1931	N	136	Died

Evan Cotton	Liberal	Finsbury East by-election, 1918	16 July 1918	151	17 July 1918	6 August 1918	131	Defeated at next general election

Robert Chichester	Irish Unionist	South Londonderry by-election, 1921	29 August 1921	152	Y	Died

Philip Clarke	Sinn Féin	Fermanagh and South Tyrone, 1955	26 May 1955	152	N	N	0	Unseated

Thomas Mitchell	Sinn Féin	Mid-Ulster, 1955	26 May 1955	152	N	N	0	Disqualified

Nicol Stephen	Lib Dem	Kincardine and Deeside by-election, 1991	7 November 1991	154	12 November 1991	26 November 1991	125	Defeated at next general election

David Hardie	Labour	Glasgow Rutherglen by-election, 1931	21 May 1931	159	2 June 1931	25 June 1931	127	Defeated at next general election

Eugene O'Sullivan	Ind. Nationalist	East Kerry, Jan 1910	22 January 1910	170	Y	N	140 (approximately)	Unseated

David MacDonald	Conservative	Bothwell, 1918	28 December 1918	176	5 February 1919	27 March 1919	137	Died

Sarah Olney	Liberal Democrats	Richmond Park by-election, 2016	1 December 2016	188	5 December 2016	19 December 2016	134	Defeated at next general election

Herbert Sparkes	Conservative	Tiverton, 1922	15 November 1922	188	21 November 1922	14 February 1923	182	Died

Helen McElhone	Labour	Glasgow Queen's Park by-election, 1982	2 December 1982	189	8 December 1982	17 January 1983	156	Retired at next general election

Hilton Philipson	National Liberal	Berwick-on-Tweed, 1922	15 November 1922	197	21 November 1922	N	168	Unseated

Armine Wodehouse	Liberal	Saffron Walden, 1900	15 October 1900	200	4 December 1900	27 March 1901	148	Died

Oswald Cawley	Liberal	Prestwich by-election, January 1918	31 January 1918	202	20 June 1918	N	63	Killed in action World War I

Francis Norie-Miller	Liberal National	Perth by-election, 1935	16 April 1935	212	2 May 1935	N	176	Retired at next general election

David Austick	Liberal	Ripon by-election, 1973	26 July 1973	217	16 October 1973	6 November 1973	115	Defeated at next general election

Moreton Frewen	Ind. Nationalist	Cork North-East, Dec 1910	8 December 1910	220	Y	24 April 1911	160 (approximately)	Resigned

Barry McElduff	Sinn Féin	West Tyrone, 2017	8 June 2017	222	N	N	0	Resigned

Harry West	Ulster Unionist	Fermanagh and South Tyrone, February 1974	28 February 1974	224	13 March 1974	14 March 1974	191	Defeated at next general election

Arthur Wellesley Willey	Conservative	Leeds Central, 1922	15 November 1922	229	21 November 1922	N	223	Died

Christopher Ward	Conservative	Swindon by-election, 1969	30 October 1969	231	4 November 1969	15 December 1969	206	Defeated at next general election

William Henry Somervell	Liberal	Keighley by-election, 1918	26 April 1918	232	29 April 1918	27 June 1918	210	Defeated at next general election

James Godfrey MacManaway	Ulster Unionist	Belfast West, 1950	23 February 1950	238	13 June 1950	19 October 1950	128	Disqualified

Thomas Browne Wallace	Irish Unionist	West Down by-election, 1921	23 June 1921	239	Y	Resigned

Frederick William Gibbins	Liberal	Mid Glamorgan by-election, 1910	31 March 1910	253	4 April 1910	N	238	Retired at next general election

Charles Frederick Palmer	Independent	The Wrekin by-election, February 1920	7 February 1920	261	23 February 1920	27 February 1920	245	Died

Hugh Hayes	Ulster Unionist	West Down by-election, 1922	17 February 1922	271	2 March 1922	238	Retired at next general election

Harry Harpham	Labour	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, 2015	7 May 2015	273	20 May 2015	17 June 2015	260	Died

Joseph Jackson Cleary	Labour	Liverpool Wavertree by-election, 1935	6 February 1935	281	11 February 1935	14 February 1935	256	Defeated at next general election

Sir William Beveridge	Liberal	Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, 1944	17 October 1944	282	19 October 1944	3 November 1944	239	Defeated at next general election

W. P. Sidney, VC	Conservative	Chelsea by-election, 1944	11 October 1944	288	17 October 1944	29 November 1944	241	Succeeded to the Peerage

Alfred Holland	Labour	Clay Cross, 1935	14 November 1935	290	27 November 1935	30 April 1936	277	Died

Sir John Reith	National	Southampton by-election, February 1940	1 February 1940	293	6 February 1940	N	258	Elevated to the Peerage

Parmjit Singh Gill	Lib Dem	Leicester South by-election, 2004	15 July 2004	294	20 July 2004	23 November 2004	261	Defeated at next general election

Sir William Hacket Pain	Ulster Unionist	South Londonderry by-election, 1922	18 January 1922	301	8 February 1922	10 May 1922	260	Retired at next general election

W. E. Gibbons	Conservative	Bilston by-election, 1944	20 September 1944	309	26 September 1944	6 December 1944	262	Defeated at next general election

David Colville Anderson	Conservative	Dumfriesshire by-election, 1963	12 December 1963	309	17 December 1963	8 February 1964	283	Retired at next general election

22 MPs who only sat in the February-November 1910 Parliament	various	various	various between 14 January and 9 February 1910	various	various	various	286

Judith Chaplin	Conservative	Newbury, 1992	9 April 1992	316	29 April 1992	10 June 1992	296	Died

64 MPs who only sat in the January-October 1924 Parliament	various	various	6 December 1923	328	various	various	275

Thomas Teevan	Ulster Unionist	Belfast West by-election, 1950	29 November 1950	330	5 December 1950	11 April 1951	304	Defeated at next general election

William Nathaniel Jones	Liberal	Carmarthen by-election, 1928	28 June 1928	336	3 July 1928	N?	311	Defeated at next general election

Arthur Henniker-Hughan	Conservative	Galloway, 1924	29 October 1924	340	3 December 1924	19 March 1925	305	Died

Martin Morris	Irish Unionist	Galway Borough, 1900	1 October 1900	342	4 December 1900	22 April 1901	278	Succeeded to the Peerage

Peter Law	Independent	Blaenau Gwent, 2005	5 May 2005	355	16 May 2005	16 June 2005	344	Died

Wallace Lawler	Liberal	Birmingham Ladywood by-election, 1969	26 June 1969	357	3 July 1969	23 July 1969	330	Defeated at next general election

George Machin	Labour	Dundee East by-election, 1973	1 March 1973	364	6 March 1973	8 March 1973	339	Defeated at next general election

51 MPs who only sat in the November 1922 – November 1923 Parliament	various	various	15 November 1922	386	various	various	361

Sentence(s)

Harry Harpham was a Member of Parliament for 260 days, making him one of the shortest serving MP.

final_sentence: Harry Harpham was a Member of Parliament for 260 days, making him one of the shortest serving MP.