List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, October 1974

This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 47th Parliament of the United Kingdom in October 1974 general election, held on 10 October 1974. This was the second general election to be held that year. The Parliament lasted until 1979.

Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included Margaret Jackson (later Margaret Beckett) and David Penhaligon.

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

• 14 April 1976: John Stonehouse (Walsall North) defects from Labour to English National Party
• 26 July 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.
• 1977 James Kilfedder (North Down) left the Ulster Unionist Party and sat as an independent unionist.