List of electoral firsts in the United Kingdom

This article lists notable achievements of women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBT people in British Politics.

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Women

Women over 30 granted the right to vote: 1918

Women granted the right to vote on the same terms as men: 1928

First female MPs:

Due to the abstentionist policy of Sinn Féin, Markievicz never took her seat in Westminster.

First female cabinet minister

First female Government Whip

First female prime minister

First female leader of the House of Lords

First female speaker in the House of Commons

First female leader of the House of Commons

First female speaker in the House of Lords

Blind people

First blind MP

First blind Cabinet member

People in a wheelchair

First MP in a wheelchair

First female MP in a wheelchair

Black Britons

First black MPs:

-All elected in the 1987 election

First black woman MP

British Chinese

First Chinese Member of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland

First Chinese MP

Czech Britons

First Czech-born MP

Polish Britons

First Polish-born MP

South Asians

First South Asian MP (and first Zorastrian MP)

First South Asian Cabinet member

First South Asian Member of the Welsh Assembly

First South Asian Member of the Scottish Parliament

Jews

First Jewish MP

First Jewish speaker in the House of Commons

LGBT people

First openly gay MP: Chris Smith, Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury, from 1983 to 2005 [13]
First openly bisexual MP: Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrat MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, from 1983 - 2015 (came out in 2006)

References and notes

  1. 1 2 http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/photos/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=150816723&ocid=toptodayuk2 Famous female firsts
  2. ↑ Mastermind (1984 ed.). Treasure Press. p. 340.
  3. ↑ Fawcett then sat as MP for Hackney until his death in 1884. Subsequent blind MPs have included William Tindal Robertson, a Conservative who succeeded Fawcett as MP for Brighton, from 1874 to his death in 1889; William Macdonald, MP for Ossory from 1886 to 1892; and Ian Fraser, Conservative MP for St Pancras North from 1924 to 1929 then from 1931 to 1934, then MP for Lonsdale from 1940 to 1958, before becoming a member of the House of Lords.
  4. 1 2 "Your first mistake", The Guardian, 20 July 2006
  5. ↑ "Labour MP Anne Begg made a dame in New Year Honours", BBC News, 31 December 2010
  6. ↑ Rose, Damon. "Dame Anne Begg: 'What do I do now?'". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  7. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/fanfare-for-a-forgotten-mp-nicholas-timmins-recalls-the-election-to-the-commons-of-a-man-of-many-firsts-1535249.html Fanfare for a forgotten MP: Nicholas Timmins recalls the election to the Commons of a man of many 'firsts' The Independent NICHOLAS TIMMINS Saturday, 25 July 1992
  8. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6622925.stm First ethnic minority AM elected
  9. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7876038.stm Scotland's first Muslim MSP dies
  10. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6622915.stm First Asian MSP goes to Holyrood
  11. ↑ http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REjewish.htm Jewish Community
  12. ↑ http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/31823/new-jewish-ministers-and-miliband-rivalry New Jewish ministers and the Miliband rivalry - The Jewish Chronicle
  13. ↑ Campbell, Dennis (30 January 2005). "The pioneer who changed gay lives". The Observer. Retrieved 2008-09-28.

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