ABSTRACT
Resignation (including resignations following appointment as Lord Chancellor and elevation to the Peerage) 1,059 28.2
Ministerial (appointments to Ministerial office which required re-election) 678 18.1
Succession to the Peerage 228 6.1
Elevation to the Peerage (including Life Peerages and those summoned to the House of Lords in one of their fathers’ Peerages) 221 5.9
Elections declared void following petitions 192 5.1
Members seeking re-election (for various reasons) in their constituency1 51 1.4
Acceptance of an appointment which did not disqualify but necessitated re-election 36 1.0
Members elected for more than one constituency declining the seats they did not wish to represent1 26 0.7
Members disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons1 16 0.4
Expulsion from the House of Commons1 8 0.2
Bankruptcy1 3 0.1
Creation of additional seats in the House of Commons during a Parliament 2 0.1
Unseated for voting in the House of Commons before taking the Oath1 2 0.1
Lunacy1 1 0.0
TOTAL 3,749
