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The fifty-seventh Parliament of the United Kingdom will be the legislature of the United Kingdom following the 2017 general election of Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons. The Parliament, which consists of the House of Lords and the elected House of Commons, will be convened at the Palace of Westminster by the British Monarch after the election. Each of Parliament's 650 constituencies will return one MP to the House of Commons.

House of Commons composition
Below is a graphical representation of the House of Commons showing a comparison of party strengths as it was directly after the 2015 general election. This is not a seating plan of the House of Commons, which has five rows of benches on each side, with the government party to the right of the Speaker and opposition parties to the left, but with room for only around two-thirds of MPs to sit at any one time.

List of MPs elected in the general election
The following table is a list of MPs elected, ordered by constituency. Names of incumbents are listed where they stood for re-election; for details of defeated new candidates and the incumbent who stood down in those cases see individual constituency articles.
 * Notes

By-elections
By-elections are held for seats that become vacant.

Defections, suspensions and removal of whip
In some situations, the label under which MPs sit in the House of Commons can change. When this happens, MPs often become independents.