MPs Who Resigned Without Completing At Least One Full Parliament (or Five Years Service)
- Louise Mensch, 2012
- Jim Nicholson, 1985 (resigned to re-contest but was defeated)
- Frank Cousins, 1966
- Malcolm St. Clair, 1963 (honoured a pledge to stand down)
- Sidney Schofield, 1953
- John Belcher, 1949
- Tom Williamson, 1948
- Noel Mason-Macfarlane, 1946
- John Boyd Orr, 1946
- Clarice Shaw, 1946 (terminally ill)
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