| 1959–1964 Parliament of the United Kingdom | |||||
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.jpg) Palace of Westminster in 1963 | |||||
| Overview | |||||
| Legislative body | Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||||
| Term | 8 October 1959 – 9 October 1964 | ||||
| Election | 1959 United Kingdom general election | ||||
| Government | Second Macmillan ministry Douglas-Home ministry | ||||
| House of Commons | |||||
| Members | 630 | ||||
| Speaker | Harry Hylton-Foster | ||||
| Leader | R. A. Butler Iain Macleod Selwyn Lloyd | ||||
| Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home | ||||
| Leader of the Opposition | Hugh Gaitskell George Brown Harold Wilson | ||||
| Third-party leader | Jo Grimond | ||||
| House of Lords | |||||
| Lord Chancellor | Viscount Kilmuir Baron Dilhorne | ||||
This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1959 general election, held on 8 October 1959.
Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included Margaret Thatcher, Nicholas Ridley, Jim Prior, Peter Tapsell, John Morris and Jeremy Thorpe. It was also the final election in which Winston Churchill, then aged 84, stood as a candidate. Tapsell retired from Parliament 56 years later, at the 2015 general election.