Prime Minister of the United Kingdom seats than the opposition in a general election. Since 1722, most Prime Ministers have been members of the Commons; since 1902, all have had a seat there. Like other members, they are elected initially to represent only a constituency. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, for example, represented Sedgefield in County Durham from 1983 to 2007. He became Prime Minister because in 1994 he was elected Labour Party leader and then led the party to victory in the 1997 general election, winning 418 seats compared to 165 for the Conservatives and gaining a majority in the House of Commons. Neither the
Stretford and Urmston (UK Parliament constituency) Stretford and Urmston (UK Parliament constituency) Stretford and Urmston is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Kate Green, a member of the Labour Party. It has been represented by the Labour Party since its creation in 1997, originally by Beverley Hughes, who stood down at the 2010 general election. Stretford and Urmston was created from significant parts of the former constituencies of Davyhulme - whose last member was the Conservative Winston Churchill (grandson of the former Prime Minister) and Stretford - whose last member was Tony Lloyd (Labour) who chaired the