List of LGBT politicians in the United Kingdom

The following is a list of gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender individuals who have been elected as members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, European Union, other devolved parliaments and assemblies of the United Kingdom, parliaments of the countries that preceded the United Kingdom and also members of the non-elected House of Lords.

Following the 2019 general election, the UK parliament has the largest number of self-identified LGBT members of any national legislature worldwide. ^[1]

List of LGBT members of the Cabinet in the House of Commons

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	First office held	Year joined
	Liberal		Lewis Harcourt [2] [3] [4]	Rossendale	Secretary of State for the Colonies	1910
	Labour		Hugh Dalton [5]	Peckham	President of the Board of Trade	1942
	Conservative		Harry Crookshank	Gainsborough	Postmaster General	1943
	Labour		Hugh Gaitskell [6]	Leeds South	Chancellor of the Exchequer	1950
	Conservative		James Thomas	Hereford	First Lord of the Admiralty	1951
	Conservative		Derick Heathcoat-Amory [7] [8]	Tiverton	Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	1954
	Conservative		Alan Lennox-Boyd [9] [10]	Mid Bedfordshire	Secretary of State for the Colonies	1954
	Conservative		Selwyn Lloyd [11] [12]	Chelmsford	Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	1955
	Labour		Anthony Crosland [13] [14] [15] [16]	Great Grimsby	Secretary of State for Education and Science	1965
	Labour		Roy Jenkins [17]	Birmingham Stechford	Home Secretary	1965
	Labour		Richard Crossman [18] [19] [20]	Coventry East	Leader of the House of Commons	1966
	Labour		George Thomas [21] [19]	Cardiff West	Secretary of State for Wales	1968
	Conservative		Norman St John-Stevas [22]	Chelmsford	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	1979
	Labour		Nick Brown [23]	Newcastle upon Tyne East	Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury	1997
	Labour		Ron Davies [24]	Caerphilly	Secretary of State for Wales	1997
	Labour		Peter Mandelson [25]	Hartlepool	Minister without Portfolio	1997
	Labour		Chris Smith [26]	Islington South and Finsbury	Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport	1997
	Labour		Shaun Woodward [27]	St Helens South and Whiston	Secretary of State for Northern Ireland	2007
	Labour		Ben Bradshaw [28]	Exeter	Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport	2009
	Liberal Democrats		David Laws [29]	Yeovil	Chief Secretary to the Treasury	2010
	Conservative		Justine Greening [30]	Putney	Secretary of State for Education	2011
	Conservative		David Mundell [31]	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	Secretary of State for Scotland	2015

List of LGBT ministers in the House of Commons

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	First office held	Year joined
	Liberal		Lewis Harcourt [2] [3] [4]	Rossendale	First Commissioner of Works	1905
	Conservative		Philip Sassoon	Hythe	Under-Secretary of State for Air	1924
	Labour		Hugh Dalton [5]	Peckham	Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	1929
	Conservative		Harry Crookshank	Gainsborough	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department	1934
	National Liberal		Robert Bernays [32] [33]	Bristol North	Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health	1937
	Conservative		Anthony Muirhead [34] [35]	Wells	Under-Secretary of State for Air	1937
	Conservative		Robert Boothby	Aberdeen and Kincardine East	Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food	1940
	Labour		Harold Nicolson	Leicester West	Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information	1940
	Conservative		James Thomas	Hereford	Lord Commissioner of the Treasury	1940
	Labour		Hugh Gaitskell [6]	Leeds South	Minister of Fuel and Power	1946
	Conservative		Alan Lennox-Boyd [9] [10]	Mid Bedfordshire	Minister of State for the Colonies	1951
	Conservative		Derick Heathcoat-Amory [7] [8]	Tiverton	Minister of Pensions	1951
	Conservative		Selwyn Lloyd [11] [12]	Chelmsford	Minister of State for Foreign Affairs	1951
	Conservative		Ian Harvey	Harrow East	Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply	1956
	Conservative		Charles Fletcher-Cooke	Darwen	Parliamentary Secretary to the Home Office	1961
	Conservative		Denzil Freeth	Basingstoke	Parliamentary Secretary for Science	1961
	Labour		Anthony Crosland [13] [14] [15] [16]	Great Grimsby	Economic Secretary to the Treasury	1964
	Labour		Roy Jenkins [17]	Birmingham Stechford	Minister of Aviation	1964
	Labour		Richard Crossman [18] [19] [20]	Coventry East	Minister of Housing and Local Government	1964
	Labour		George Thomas [21] [19]	Cardiff West	Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs	1967
	Conservative		Norman St John-Stevas [22]	Chelmsford	Minister of State for the Arts	1973
	Conservative		Spencer Le Marchant	High Peak	Comptroller of the Household	1979
	Conservative		Peter Morrison	Chester	Lord Commissioner of the Treasury	1979
	Conservative		Michael Brown	Brigg and Cleethorpes	Assistant Government Whip	1993
	Conservative		John Bowis	Battersea	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security	1993
	Labour		Clive Betts	Sheffield South East	Lord Commissioner of the Treasury	1998
	Labour		Ben Bradshaw [28]	Exeter	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	2001
	Labour		Angela Eagle	Wallasey	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office	2001
	Labour		Stephen Twigg	Enfield Southgate	Deputy Leader of the House of Commons	2001
	Labour		Ivor Caplin	Hove	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence	2003
	Labour		David Cairns	Inverclyde	Minister of State for Scotland	2005
	Labour		Shaun Woodward [27]	St Helens South and Whiston	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Northern Ireland Office	2005
	Labour		Chris Bryant	Rhondda	Deputy Leader of the House of Commons	2008
	Conservative		Greg Barker	Bexhill and Battle	Minister of State for Climate Change	2010
	Conservative		Crispin Blunt	Reigate	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prisons and Youth Justice	2010
	Conservative		Alan Duncan	Rutland and Melton	Minister of State for International Development	2010
	Conservative		Michael Fabricant	Lichfield	Lord Commissioner of the Treasury	2010
	Conservative		Nick Gibb	Bognor Regis and Littlehampton	Minister of State for School Standards	2010
	Conservative		Justine Greening [30]	Putney	Economic Secretary to the Treasury	2010
	Conservative		Nick Herbert	Arundel and South Downs	Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice	2010
	Conservative		David Mundell [31]	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland	2010
	Conservative		Nick Boles	Pudsey	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Decentralisation	2012
	Liberal Democrats		Simon Hughes	Bermondsey & Old Southwark	Minister of State for Justice and Civil Liberties	2013
	Liberal Democrats		Stephen Williams	Bristol West	Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government	2013
	Conservative		Margot James	Stourbridge	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility	2016
	Conservative		Christopher Pincher	Tamworth	Comptroller of the Household	2017
	Conservative		Stuart Andrew	Pudsey	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales	2018
	Conservative		Mike Freer	Finchley and Golders Green	Lord Commissioner of the Treasury	2018
	Conservative		Conor Burns	Bournemouth West	Minister of State for Trade Policy	2019
	Conservative		Iain Stewart [36]	Milton Keynes South	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland	2020
	Conservative		Lee Rowley [37]	North East Derbyshire	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Industry	2021
	Conservative		Dehenna Davison [38]	Bishop Auckland	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Levelling Up	2022
	Conservative		Jacob Young [39]	Redcar	Lord Commissioner of the Treasury	2022
	Conservative		Mark Fletcher	Bolsover	Assistant Government Whip	2023

List of LGBT members of the House of Commons

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure	Reason for leaving	Notes
	Independent		Anthony Bacon [40]	Wallingford	1593–1598	Retired	[41] [42]
	Tory		Edward Hyde	Wiltshire & Christchurch	1685–1701	Resigned to become Governor of New Jersey in British North America (later joined the House of Lords as The Earl of Clarendon)	[43] [44] [45]
	Whig		John Hervey	Bury St Edmunds	1725–1733	Resigned to join the House of Lords (as The Baron Hervey)	[46] [47] [48]
	Whig		Stephen Fox-Strangways	Shaftesbury	1726–1741	Resigned to join the House of Lords (as the Earl of Ilchester)	[46] [47] [48]
	Whig		Horace Walpole	Callington, Castle Rising & Kings Lynn	1741–1768	Retired (later joined the House of Lords as The Earl of Orford)	[49] [50] [51] [52]
	Tory		John Tylney	Malmesbury	1761–1768	Resigned	[53] [54]
	Tory		Edward Onslow	Aldborough	1780–1781	Resigned	[55] [56] [57]
	Whig		William Thomas Beckford	Wells	1784–1795	Resigned	[58] [59] [60]
				Hindon	1806-1820	Retired
	Tory		Charles Price	City of London	1802–1812	Retired	[61]
	Tory		William John Bankes	Truro	1810-1812	Retired	[58] [62] [63]
				Cambridge University	1822-1826	Defeated
				Marlborough & Dorset	1830–1835	Retired
	Whig		Henry Grey Bennet	Shrewsbury	1811-1826	Retired	[64] [65] [66]
	Tory		Richard Heber	Oxford University	1821-1826	Retired	[67] [68] [69] [70]
	Whig		Robert King	County Cork	1826–1832	Defeated	[71]
	Tory		Henry Lygon	West Worcestershire	1853–1863	Resigned to join the House of Lords (as the Earl Beauchamp)	[72] [73] [3]
	Liberal		Arthur Clinton	Newark	1865–1868	Retired	[74] [75] [76]
	Liberal		Ronald Gower	Sutherland	1867–1874	Retired	[77] [78] [79] [80]
	Conservative		James Agg-Gardner	Cheltenham	1874–1880	Defeated	[81] [82] [83]
					1885–1895	Retired
					1900–1906	Defeated
					1911–1928	Died
	Liberal		Reginald Brett	Penryn and Falmouth	1880–1885	Defeated (later joined the House of Lords as the Viscount Esher)	[84] [85] [86]
	Liberal		Cyril Flower	Luton	1880–1892	Retired (later joined the House of Lords as the Lord Battersea)	[87] [88]
	Liberal		Lewis Harcourt	Rossendale	1904–1917	Resigned to join the House of Lords (as the Viscount Harcourt)	[2] [3] [4]
	Liberal		David Charles Erskine	West Perthshire	1906–1910	Retired	[89] [90]
	Labour		Victor Grayson	Colne Valley	1907–1910	Defeated	[91] [92]
	Conservative		Philip Sassoon	Hythe	1912–1939	Died	[93] [94]
	Conservative		Malcolm Bullock	Waterloo & Crosby	1923–1953	Resigned	[95] [96] [97]
	Liberal		Arthur Hobhouse	Wells	1923–1924	Defeated	[98] [99]
	Conservative		Victor Cazalet	Chippenham	1924–1943	Killed in action	[100] [101]
	Conservative		Robert Boothby	Aberdeen and Kincardine East & Aberdeenshire Eastern	1924–1958	Resigned to join the House of Lords (as the Baron Boothby)	[102] [103] [104]
	Conservative		Harry Crookshank	Gainsborough	1924–1956	Resigned to join the House of Lords (as the Viscount Crookshanks)	[105]
	Labour		Hugh Dalton	Peckham	1924–1931	Defeated	[5]
				Bishop Auckland	1935–1959	Retired (later joined the House of Lords as the Lord Dalton)
	Labour		Oliver Baldwin	Dudley	1929–1931	Defeated	[19] [106]
				Paisley	1945–1947	Resigned to join the House of Lords (as the Earl Baldwin of Bewdley)
	Conservative		Anthony Muirhead	Bristol North	1929–1939	Killed in action	[34] [35]
	National Liberal		Robert Bernays	Bristol North	1931–1945	Killed in action	[32] [33]
	Conservative		Ian Horobin	Southwark Central	1931–1935	Defeated	[107]
				Oldham East	1951–1959	Retired
	Conservative		Alan Lennox-Boyd	Mid Bedfordshire	1931–1960	Resigned to join the House of Lords (as the Viscount Boyd of Merton)	[9] [10]
	Conservative		James Thomas	Hereford	1931–1955	Resigned to join the House of Lords (as the Viscount Cilcennin)	[108]
	Conservative		Paul Latham	Scarborough and Whitby	1931–1941	Resigned	[109] [110] [111]
	Conservative		Ronald Tree	Harborough	1933–1945	Defeated	[112] [113] [114]
	Conservative		Ronald Cartland	Birmingham King's Norton	1935–1940	Killed in action	[115] [73] [116] [33]
	Conservative		Henry Channon	Southend & Southend West	1935–1958	Died	[18] [117]
	Conservative		John Macnamara	Chelmsford	1935–1944	Killed in action	[118] [119] [120] [33]
	Labour		Harold Nicolson	Leicester West	1935–1945	Defeated	[121] [122] [123]
	Conservative		Victor Montagu	South Dorset	1941–1962	Resigned to join the House of Lords (as the Earl of Sandwich)	[124]
	Labour		Tom Driberg	Maldon	1942–1955	Defeated	[125] [126] [127]
				Barking	1959–1974 (Feb)	Retired (later joined the House of Lords as the Lord Driberg)
	Labour		Richard Crossman	Coventry East	1945–1974	Died	[18] [19] [20]
	Labour		Hugh Gaitskell	Leeds South	1945–1963	Died	[6]
	Conservative		Derick Heathcoat-Amory	Tiverton	1945–1960	Resigned to join the House of Lords (as the Viscount Amory)	[7] [8]
	Conservative		Selwyn Lloyd	Chelmsford	1945–1976	Resigned to join the House of Lords (as the Baron Selwyn-Lloyd)	[11] [12]
	Labour		George Thomas	Cardiff West	1945–1983	Retired (later joined the House of Lords as the Viscount Tonypandy)	[21] [19]
	Labour		William J. Field	Paddington North	1946–1953	Resigned	[128] [129]
	Labour		Roy Jenkins	Southwark Central & Birmingham Stechford	1948–1977	Resigned	[13] [14] [15] [17]
	SDP			Glasgow Hillhead	1982–1987	Defeated (later joined the House of Lords as Lord Jenkins of Hillfield)
	Liberal		Jeremy Thorpe	North Devon	1959–1979	Defeated	[130] [131]
	Labour		Anthony Crosland	South Gloucestershire	1950–1955	Defeated	[13] [14] [15] [16]
				Great Grimsby	1959–1977	Died
	Conservative		Ian Harvey	Harrow East	1950–1959	Resigned	[7] [8]
	Conservative		Charles Fletcher-Cooke	Darwen	1951–1983	Retired	[132] [133] [134]
	Conservative		Denzil Freeth	Basingstoke	1955–1964	Retired	[135]
	Conservative		Humphry Berkeley	Lancaster	1959–1966	Defeated	[32] [136]
	Conservative		Norman St John-Stevas	Chelmsford	1964–1987	Retired (later joined the House of Lords as Lord St John of Fawsley)	[22]
	Conservative		Spencer Le Marchant	High Peak	1970–1983	Retired	[137]
	Labour		Maureen Colquhoun	Northampton North	1974 (Feb)–1979	Defeated	[138]
	Conservative		Keith Hampson	Ripon & Leeds North West	1974 (Feb)–1997	Defeated	[139]
	Conservative		Peter Morrison	City of Chester	1974 (Feb)–1992	Retired	[140] [141]
	Conservative		Charles Irving	Cheltenham	1974 (Oct)–1992	Retired	[142] [83]
	Conservative		David Atkinson	Bournemouth East	1977–2005	Retired	[143]
	Labour		George Morton	Manchester Moss Side	1978–1983	Retired	[144]
	Conservative		Michael Brown	Brigg and Cleethorpes	1979–1997	Defeated	[145]
	Conservative		Matthew Parris	West Derbyshire	1979–1986	Resigned	[146] [147] [148]
	Conservative		Harvey Proctor	Billericay	1979–1987	Retired	[149] [150] [151]
	Labour		Allan Rogers	Bootle	1979–1990	Died	[152]
	Conservative		Martin Stevens	Fulham	1979–1986	Died	[153]
	Labour		Roger Thomas	Carmarthen	1979–1987	Retired	[154]
	Conservative		David Ashby	North West Leicestershire	1983–1997	Retired	[155]
	Labour		Nick Brown	Newcastle upon Tyne East	1983–2023	Resigned from Labour and became an Indepedant	[23]
	Independent	2023–present	Serving
	Labour		Ron Davies	Caerphilly	1983–2001	Retired	[24]
	Conservative		Jerry Hayes	Harlow	1983–1997	Defeated	[ citation needed ]
	Conservative		Robert Hayward	Kingswood	1983–1992	Defeated (later joined the House of Lords as the Lord Hayward)	[156]
	Conservative		Michael Hirst	Strathkelvin and Bearsden	1983–1987	Defeated	[157] [158] [159]
	Liberal Democrats		Simon Hughes	Bermondsey and Old Southwark	1983–2015	Defeated	[160]
	Labour		Chris Smith	Islington South and Finsbury	1983–2005	Retired (later joined the House of Lords as Lord Smith of Finsbury)	[26]
	Conservative		Alan Amos	Hexham	1987–1992	Retired	[161]
	Conservative		John Bowis	Battersea	1987–1997	Defeated	[162]
	Labour		Clive Betts	Sheffield South East	1992–present	Serving	[163] [164]
	Conservative		Alan Duncan	Rutland and Melton	1992–2019	Retired	[165]
	Labour		Angela Eagle	Wallasey	1992–present	Serving	[166]
	Conservative		Nigel Evans	Ribble Valley	1992–present	Serving	[167]
	Conservative		Michael Fabricant	Lichfield	1992–present	Serving	[168]
	Labour		Peter Mandelson	Hartlepool	1992–2004	Resigned to become European Commissioner for Trade (later joined the House of Lords as Lord Mandelson)	[25] [169] [170]
	Conservative		Crispin Blunt	Reigate	1997–2023	whip removed	[171] [164]
	Independent	2023–present	Serving
	Labour		David Borrow	South Ribble	1997–2010	Defeated	[172]
	Labour		Ben Bradshaw	Exeter	1997–present	Serving	[28]
	Labour		Ivor Caplin	Hove	1997–2005	Retired	[173] [174]
	Conservative		Nick Gibb	Bognor Regis and Littlehampton	1997–present	Serving	[175] [176]
	Labour		Gordon Marsden	Blackpool South	1997–2019	Defeated	[177]
	Liberal Democrats		Mark Oaten	Winchester	1997–2010	Retired	[178] [179]
	Labour		Stephen Twigg	Enfield Southgate	1997–2005	Defeated	[28]
				Liverpool West Derby	2010–2019	Retired	[180]
	Conservative		Shaun Woodward	Witney	1997–2001	Resigned from the Conservative Party, joined the Labour Party	[27]
	Labour			St Helens South and Whiston	2001–2015	Retired
	Conservative		Greg Barker	Bexhill and Battle	2001–2015	Retired (later joined the House of Lords as Lord Barker of Battle)	[181]
	Labour		Chris Bryant	Rhondda	2001–present	Serving	[182]
	Labour		David Cairns	Inverclyde	2001–2011	Died	[183]
	Liberal Democrats		David Laws	Yeovil	2001–2015	Defeated	[29]
	Plaid Cymru		Adam Price	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	2001–2010	Retired	[184]
	Labour		Nia Griffith	Llanelli	2005–present	Serving	[182]
	Conservative		Justine Greening	Putney	2005–2019	Stripped of Conservative whip, became an independent	[30]
	Independent				2019	Retired
	Conservative		Nick Herbert	Arundel and South Downs	2005–2019	Retired	[185]
	Conservative		Daniel Kawczynski	Shrewsbury and Atcham	2005–present	Serving	[186]
	Conservative		David Mundell	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	2005–present	Serving	[31]
	Liberal Democrats		Stephen Williams	Bristol West	2005–2015	Defeated	[187]
	Conservative		Stuart Andrew	Pudsey	2010–present	Serving	[182]
	Conservative		Nick Boles	Grantham and Stamford	2010–2019	Resigned from the Conservative Party, became an independent Conservative	[188]
	Ind. Progressive Conservative				2019	Retired
	Conservative		Conor Burns	Bournemouth West	2010–present	Serving	[189]
	Conservative		Mike Freer	Finchley and Golders Green	2010–present	Serving	[190]
	Liberal Democrats		Steve Gilbert	St Austell and Newquay	2010–2015	Defeated	[191]
	Conservative		Margot James	Stourbridge	2010–2019	Retired	[182]
	Conservative		Mark Menzies	Fylde	2010–2024	Whip Suspended	[192] [193]
	Independent	2024-present	Serving
	Conservative		Eric Ollerenshaw	Lancaster and Fleetwood	2010–2015	Defeated	[192]
	Conservative		Christopher Pincher	Tamworth	2010–2023	Resigned	[182]
	Conservative		Iain Stewart	Milton Keynes South	2010–present	Serving	[182]
	Labour Co-op		Stephen Doughty	Cardiff South and Penarth	2012–present	Serving	[194]
	Labour		Steve Reed	Croydon North	2012–present	Serving	[195]
	SNP		Hannah Bardell	Livingston	2015–present	Serving	[182]
	SNP		Mhairi Black	Paisley and Renfrewshire South	2015–present	Serving	[196]
	SNP		Kirsty Blackman	Aberdeen North	2015–present	Serving	[197]
	SNP		Joanna Cherry	Edinburgh South West	2015–present	Serving	[182]
	SNP		Angela Crawley	Lanark and Hamilton East	2015–present	Serving	[182]
	SNP		Martin Docherty	West Dunbartonshire	2015–present	Serving	[182]
	SNP		Patrick Grady	Glasgow North	2015–2022	Resigned from the SNP, became an Independent.	[198]
	Independent				2022	Whip restored
	SNP				2022–present	Serving
	Conservative		Ben Howlett	Bath	2015–2017	Defeated	[182]
	Labour		Gerald Jones	Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney	2015–present	Serving	[182]
	Labour		Peter Kyle	Hove	2015–present	Serving	[199]
	SNP		Stewart McDonald	Glasgow South	2015–present	Serving	[182]
	SNP		Stuart McDonald	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East	2015–present	Serving	[182]
	SNP		John Nicolson	East Dunbartonshire	2015–2017	Defeated	[182]
				Ochil and South Perthshire	2019-present	Serving
	Labour		Cat Smith	Lancaster and Fleetwood	2015–present	Serving	[199]
	Labour		Wes Streeting	Ilford North	2015–present	Serving	[199]
	Conservative		William Wragg	Hazel Grove	2015–2024	Surrendered the Conservative whip	[200]
	Independent				2024–Present	Serving
	Labour		Dan Carden	Liverpool Walton	2017–present	Serving	[201]
	Labour		Gerard Killen	Rutherglen and Hamilton West	2017–2019	Defeated	[201]
	Labour		Sandy Martin	Ipswich	2017–2019	Defeated	[201]
	Conservative		Damien Moore	Southport	2017–present	Serving	[201]
	Liberal Democrats		Layla Moran	Oxford West and Abingdon	2017–present	Serving	[202]
	Labour		Stephen Morgan	Portsmouth South	2017–present	Serving	[203]
	Labour Co-op		Luke Pollard	Plymouth Sutton and Devonport	2017–present	Serving	[201]
	Conservative		Lee Rowley	North East Derbyshire	2017–present	Serving	[201]
	Labour Co-op		Lloyd Russell-Moyle	Brighton Kemptown	2017–present	Serving	[201]
	Conservative		Ross Thomson	Aberdeen South	2017–2019	Retired	[201]
	Conservative		Scott Benton	Blackpool South	2019–2023	Whip suspended	[204] [205]
	Independent				2023-2024	Resigned
	Labour		Olivia Blake	Sheffield Hallam	2019–present	Serving	[206]
	Conservative		Chris Clarkson	Heywood and Middleton	2019–present	Serving	[207]
	Conservative		Elliot Colburn	Carshalton and Wallington	2019–present	Serving	[207]
	Conservative		Dehenna Davison	Bishop Auckland	2019–present	Serving	[208]
	Conservative		Mark Fletcher	Bolsover	2019–present	Serving	[207]
	Conservative		Peter Gibson	Darlington	2019–present	Serving	[209]
	SNP		Neale Hanvey	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath	2019–2021	Resigned from the SNP, joined Alba Party	[207]
	Alba				2021–present	Serving
	Conservative		Antony Higginbotham	Burnley	2019–present	Serving	[207]
	Conservative		Paul Holmes	Eastleigh	2019–present	Serving	[207]
	Conservative		Imran Ahmad Khan	Wakefield	2019–2021	Suspended and later expelled from Conservatives, became an Independent	[210] [211]
	Independent				2021–2022	Resigned
	Conservative		Kieran Mullan	Crewe and Nantwich	2019–present	Serving	[207]
	Labour Co-op		James Murray	Ealing North	2019–present	Serving	[212]
	Labour		Charlotte Nichols	Warrington North	2019–present	Serving	[213]
	Labour		Kate Osborne	Jarrow	2019–present	Serving	[214]
	Conservative		Rob Roberts	Delyn	2019–present	Serving	[215]
	Conservative		Gary Sambrook	Birmingham Northfield	2019–present	Serving	[216]
	SNP		Alyn Smith	Stirling	2019–present	Serving	[207]
	Conservative		Jamie Wallis	Bridgend	2019–present	Serving	[217] [218]
	Labour		Nadia Whittome	Nottingham East	2019–present	Serving	[219]
	Conservative		Jacob Young	Redcar	2019–present	Serving	[207]
	Labour		Kim Leadbeater	Batley and Spen	2021–present	Serving	[220]
	Labour		Simon Lightwood	Wakefield	2022–present	Serving	[221]
	Labour		Ashley Dalton	West Lancashire	2023–present	Serving	[222] [223]
	Labour		Keir Mather	Selby and Ainsty	2023–present	Serving	[224] [225]
	Labour		Damien Egan	Kingswood	2024-present	Serving	[226]

List of LGBT members of the Cabinet in the House of Lords

Party		Portrait	Name	First office held	Year joined
	Whig		The Lord Hervey	Lord Privy Seal	1740
	Liberal		The Earl of Rosebery	Lord Privy Seal	1885
	Liberal		The Earl Beauchamp	Lord President of the Council	1910
	Labour		The Lord Adonis	Secretary of State for Transport	2009
	Labour		The Lord Mandelson	Lord President of the Council	2009

List of LGBT ministers in the House of Lords

Party		Portrait	Name	First office held	Year joined
	Liberal		The Earl of Rosebery	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department	1881
	Liberal		The Lord Battersea	Lord-in-waiting	1886
	Conservative		The Earl of Avon	Lord-in-waiting	1980
	Labour		The Lord Adonis	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools and Learners	2005
	Conservative		The Lord Duncan	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland	2017
	Conservative		The Baroness Stedman-Scott	Baroness-in-Waiting	2017
	Conservative		The Lord Parkinson	Lord-in-Waiting	2020

List of LGBT members of the House of Lords

Party		Portrait	Title	Creation	Tenure	Notes
	Tory		The Earl of Clarendon	31 October 1709 (hereditary)	1709–1723	[54]
	Whig		The Lord Hervey	11 June 1733 (hereditary)	1733–1743	[46] [47]
	Whig		The Earl of Ilchester	6 November 1741 (hereditary)	1741–1776	[48]
	Whig		The Earl of Devon	14 October 1788 (hereditary)	1788–1835	[227]
	Whig		The Earl of Orford	5 December 1791 (hereditary)	1791–1797	[228] [229]
	Whig		The Lord Byron	19 May 1798 (hereditary)	1798–1824	[230] [231]
	Whig		The Earl of Kingston	18 October 1839 (hereditary)	1839–1867
	Tory		The Earl Beauchamp	8 September 1863 (hereditary)	1863–1868	[72] [73] [3]
	Liberal		The Earl of Rosebery	4 March 1868 (hereditary)	1868–1929	[232]
	Liberal		The Earl Beauchamp	19 February 1891 (hereditary)	1891–1938	[233]
	Liberal		The Lord Battersea	14 May 1892 (hereditary)	1892–1907	[87] [88]
	Liberal		The Marquess of Anglesey	13 October 1898 (hereditary)	1898–1905	[234] [235]
	Liberal		The Viscount Esher	24 May 1899 (hereditary)	1899–1930	[236] [237]
	Liberal		The Lord Stanmore	30 January 1912 (hereditary)	1912–1930	[238]
	Conservative		The Marquess of Hertford	23 March 1912 (hereditary)	1912–1940	[239]
	Liberal		The Viscount Harcourt	28 August 1917 (hereditary)	1917–1922	[2] [3]
	Crossbench		The Lord Berners	23 March 1918 (hereditary)	1918–1950	[240]
	Conservative		The Lord Alington	30 July 1919 (hereditary)	1919–1940	[241]
	Conservative		The Lord Fairhaven	15 May 1929 (hereditary)	1929–1966	[242]
	Conservative		The Earl of Lauderdale	14 September 1931 (hereditary)	1931–1953	[243] [244] [245]
	Labour		The Lord Faringdon	17 March 1934 (hereditary)	1934–1977	[246]
	Conservative		The Viscount Tredegar	3 May 1934 (hereditary)	1934–1949	[247]
	Liberal		The Lord Kinross	17 March 1939 (hereditary)	1939–1976	[248] [249]
	Liberal		The Lord Keynes	17 April 1942 (hereditary)	1942–1946	[250] [251]
	Liberal		The Lord Amulree	5 May 1942 (hereditary)	1942–1983	[252] [253]
	Conservative		The Duke of Wellington	16 September 1943 (hereditary)	1943–1972	[243] [244] [245]
	Conservative		The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava	25 March 1945 (hereditary)	1945–1988	[254]
	Liberal		The Lord Mottistone	7 November 1947 (hereditary)	1947–1963	[255] [256] [257]
	Conservative		The Lord Montagu of Beaulieu	14 November 1947 (hereditary)	1947–2015	[247]
	Labour		The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley	14 December 1947 (hereditary)	1947–1958	[258] [106]
	Conservative		The Viscount Cilcennin	22 March 1955 (hereditary)	1955–1960	[108]
	Conservative		The Viscount Crookshank	17 June 1956 (hereditary)	1956–1961	[105]
	Conservative		The Viscount Maugham	23 March 1958 (hereditary)	1958–1981	[259]
	Conservative		The Lord Boothby	22 August 1958	1958–1986	[102] [103] [104]
	Conservative		The Earl of Arran	19 December 1958 (hereditary)	1958	[260]
	Labour		The Lord Dalton	28 January 1960	1960–1962	[5]
	Conservative		The Viscount Boyd of Merton	21 September 1960 (hereditary)	1960–1983	[9] [10]
	Conservative		The Viscount Amory	29 October 1960 (hereditary)	1960–1981	[7] [8]
	Liberal		The Lord Sackville	8 May 1962 (hereditary)	1962–1965	[261] [262] [263]
	Conservative		The Earl of Sandwich	15 June 1962 (hereditary)	1962–1964	[264]
	Conservative		The Viscount Monsell	21 March 1969 (hereditary)	1969–1993	[265]
	Labour		The Lord Bradwell	21 January 1976	1976	[125]
	Crossbench		The Lord Selwyn-LLoyd	8 March 1976	1976–1978	[12] [11]
	Crossbench		The Lord Britten	15 July 1976	1976	[266]
	Conservative		The Earl of Avon	14 January 1977 (hereditary)	1977–1985	[267]
	Crossbench		The Viscount Tonypandy	14 June 1983 (hereditary)	1983–1997	[258] [106]
	Conservative		The Marquess of Bristol	10 March 1985 (hereditary)	1985–1999	[268]
	Liberal Democrats		The Lord Jenkins of Hillhead	12 May 1987	1987–2003	[258] [106]
	Conservative		The Lord St John of Fawsley	19 October 1987	1987–2012	[22]
	Labour		The Baroness Hilton of Eggardon	14 June 1991	1991–2021	[182]
	Labour		The Lord Montague of Oxford	1 November 1997	1997–1999	[269]
	Labour		The Lord Alli	18 July 1998	1998–present	[182]
	Liberal Democrats		The Baroness Barker	31 July 1999	1999–present	[270] [271]
	Crossbench		The Lord Browne of Madingley	28 June 2001	2001–present	[272]
	Labour		The Lord Adonis	16 May 2005	2005–present	[273]
	Labour		The Lord Smith of Finsbury	22 June 2005	2005–present	[274]
	Labour		The Lord Mandelson	13 October 2008	2008–present	[275]
	Conservative		The Lord Black of Brentwood	9 July 2010	2010–present	[276] [277]
	Conservative		The Baroness Stedman-Scott	12 July 2010	2010–present	[278]
	Labour		The Lord Collins of Highbury	20 January 2011	2011–present	[182]
	Conservative		The Lord Glendonbrook	22 March 2011	2011–present	[182]
	Conservative		The Lord Sherbourne	12 September 2013	2013–present	[279]
	Non-affiliated		The Lord Paddick	12 September 2013	2013–present	[280]
	Labour		The Lord Allen of Kensington	2 October 2013	2013–present	[281]
	Liberal Democrats		The Lord Scriven	19 September 2014	2014–present
	Labour		The Lord Cashman	23 September 2014	2014–present	[282]
	Conservative		The Lord Hayward	28 September 2015	2015–present	[283]
	Liberal Democrats		The Lord Oates	5 October 2015	2015–present	[182]
	Conservative		The Lord Barker of Battle	12 October 2015	2015–present	[284]
	Labour		The Lord Livermore	21 October 2015	2015–present	[285]
	Conservative		The Lord Duncan of Springbank	14 July 2017	2017–present	[286]
	Conservative		The Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay	9 October 2019	2019–present	[287]
	Crossbench		The Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green	16 October 2019	2019–present	[288]
	Labour		The Baroness Wilcox of Newport	21 October 2019	2019–present	[289]
	Conservative		The Lord Herbert of South Downs	1 September 2020	2020–present	[290]
	Conservative		The Lord Moylan	9 September 2020	2020–present	[291]
	Crossbench		The Lord Etherton	1 March 2021	2021–present	[292]
	Conservative		The Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links	20 July 2021	2021–present	[293]
	Crossbench		The Lord Verdirame	3 November 2022	2022–present	[294]

List of LGBT members of the European Parliament

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure	Reason for leaving	Notes
	Conservative		Tom Spencer	Derbyshire	1979–1984	Defeated	[295] [296]
				Surrey	1989–1999	Retired
	Labour		Alan Donnelly	Tyne and Wear & North East England	1989–1999	Resigned	[297]
	Conservative		John Bowis	London	1999–2009	Retired	[162]
	Labour		Michael Cashman	West Midlands	1999–2014	Retired	[298]
	SNP		Alyn Smith	Scotland	2004–2019	Resigned to become member of Parliament for Stirling	[299]
	UKIP		Nikki Sinclaire	West Midlands	2009–2010	Resigned from UKIP	[300]
	Independent				2010–2012	Created We Demand a Referendum Now
	We Demand a Referendum				2012–2014	Defeated
	UKIP		David Coburn	Scotland	2014–2019	Joined the Brexit Party	[301]
	Brexit Party				2019	Retired
	Labour		Seb Dance	London	2014–2020	Post abolished	[302]
	Conservative		Ian Duncan	Scotland	2014–2017	Resigned to join the House of Lords	[286]
	Brexit Party		Louis Stedman-Bryce	Scotland	2019–2019	Resigned from the Brexit Party	[303] [46]
	Independent				2019–2020	Post abolished
	Brexit Party		David Bull	North West England	2019–2020	Post abolished	[304]

List of LGBT members of the Scottish Parliament

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure	Reason for leaving	Notes
	Conservative		David Mundell	South of Scotland	1999–2005	Resigned to become MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	[305]
	Liberal Democrats		Iain Smith	North East Fife	1999–2011	Defeated	[306]
	Liberal Democrats		Margaret Smith	Edinburgh West	1999–2011	Defeated	[307]
	Scottish Green		Patrick Harvie	Glasgow	2003–present	Serving	[308]
	SNP		Joe FitzPatrick	Dundee City West	2007–present	Serving	[309]
	SNP		Marco Biagi	Edinburgh Central	2011–2016	Retired	[310]
	Conservative		Ruth Davidson	Glasgow	2011–2016	Retired	[293]
				Edinburgh Central	2016–2021
	Labour		Kezia Dugdale	Lothian	2011–2019	Resigned	[311]
	SNP		Jim Eadie	Edinburgh Southern	2011–2016	Defeated	[312]
	SNP		Derek Mackay	Renfrewshire North and West	2011–2019	Suspended from the SNP, became an Independent	[313]
	Independent				2019–2021	Retired
	SNP		Kevin Stewart	Aberdeen Central	2011–present	Serving	[314]
	SNP		Jeane Freeman	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	2016–2021	Retired	[312]
	SNP		Jenny Gilruth	Mid Fife and Glenrothes	2016–present	Serving	[311]
	Conservative		Jamie Greene	West Scotland	2016–present	Serving	[315]
	Scottish Green		Ross Greer	West Scotland	2016–present	Serving	[316]
	Conservative		Ross Thomson	North East Scotland	2016–2017	Resigned to become MP for Aberdeen South	[317]
	Conservative		Annie Wells	Glasgow	2016–present	Serving	[318]
	Labour		Paul O'Kane	West Scotland	2021–present	Serving	[319]
	SNP		Emma Roddick	Highlands and Islands	2021–present	Serving	[320]

List of LGBT members of the Welsh Parliament

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure	Reason for leaving	Notes
	Labour		Ron Davies	Caerphilly	1999–2003	Retired	[24]
	Labour		Hannah Blythyn	Delyn	2016–present	Serving	[321]
	Labour Co-op		Jeremy Miles	Neath	2016–present	Serving	[321]
	Plaid Cymru		Adam Price	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	2016–present	Serving	[321]

List of LGBT members of the Northern Ireland Assembly

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure	Reason for leaving	Notes
	Alliance		John Blair	South Antrim	2018–present	Serving	[322]
	Alliance		Andrew Muir	North Down	2019–present	Serving	[323]
	Alliance		Eóin Tennyson	South Antrim	2022–present	Serving	[324]

List of LGBT Government ministers of the Northern Ireland Executive

Party		Portrait	Name		Constituency	Tenure	Reason for leaving	Notes
	Alliance		Andrew Muir	Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs	North Down	2024–present	Serving	[323]

List of LGBT members of the London Assembly

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure	Reason for leaving	Notes
	Conservative		Eric Ollerenshaw	London-wide	2000–2004	Defeated
	Conservative		Richard Barnes	Ealing and Hillingdon	2000–2012	Defeated	[325]
	Conservative		Brian Coleman	Barnet and Camden	2000–2012	Defeated	[326]
	Conservative		Roger Evans	Havering and Redbridge	2000–2016	Retired	[237]
	Green		Darren Johnson	London-wide	2000–2016	Retired	[327]
	Conservative		Andrew Boff	London-wide	2008–present	Serving	[328]
	Labour Co-op		Tom Copley	London-wide	2012–2020	Resigned	[329]
	UKIP		Peter Whittle	London-wide	2016–2018	Resigned from UKIP	[330]
	Independent				2018–2021	Retired
	Conservative		Emma Best	London-wide	2021–present	Serving	[331]
	Conservative		Nicholas Rogers	South West	2021–2024	Retired	[332]
	Green		Zack Polanski	London-wide	2021–present	Serving	[333]
	Green		Zoë Garbett	London-wide	2021–present	Serving
	Reform UK		Alex Wilson	London-wide	2024–present	Serving

List of LGBT police and crime commissioners

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Tenure	Reason for leaving	Notes
	Labour Co-op		Olly Martins	Bedfordshire	2012–2016	Defeated	[334]
	Conservative		David Munro	Surrey	2016–2021	Defeated	[335] [336]

List of LGBT directly elected mayors

Party		Portrait	Name	Area	Tenure	Reason for leaving	Notes
	Mayor 4 Stoke		Mike Wolfe	Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent	2002–2005	Defeated	[337]
	Labour		Mark Meredith	Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent	2005–2009	Post abolished	[338]
	Labour		Paul Dennett	Mayor of Salford	2016–present	Serving	[339]
	Labour Co-op		Philip Glanville	Mayor of Hackney	2016–2023	Expelled from the Labour Party, became an Independent	[340]
	Independent				2023	Resigned
	Conservative		Andy Street	Mayor of the West Midlands	2017–2024	Defeated	[341]
	Labour		Damien Egan	Mayor of Lewisham	2018–2024	Resigned to stand in the 2024 Kingswood by-election	[342]

See also

• List of the first LGBT holders of political offices in the United Kingdom

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