Baby of the House is the unofficial title given to the youngest member of a parliamentary house. The term is most often applied to members of the British parliament.[1] The title is named after the Father of the House, which is given to the longest serving member of the British and other parliaments.
In Australia the term is rarely used. Most MPs and Senators are elected usually only in their thirties and later but some prominent MPs have been elected rather early in life including Prime Ministers Malcolm Fraser and Paul Keating who were both elected at age 25 in 1955 and 1969 respectively. The youngest Baby of the House was Wyatt Roy. He was elected at age 20 in 2010, being the youngest person ever to be elected to an Australian parliament.[2]
The current Baby of the House is Chris Crewther MP (age 32). The current Baby of the Senate is Senator James Paterson (age 36).[3]
The youngest-ever elected member of the Canadian House of Commons is Pierre-Luc Dusseault, who was elected at the age of 19 years and 11 months in 2011. Dusseault is the youngest MP in Canadian history.[4] In the past, MPs such as Sean O'Sullivan, Pierre Poilievre, Andrew Scheer, Claude-André Lachance and Lorne Nystrom have also held the distinction.
The previous youngest current MP was Nicolas Dufour, to represent the riding of Repentigny, Quebec, for the Bloc Québécois; born in June 1987, elected at 21 years and 4 months in age. The youngest current female MP is Laurin Liu, NDP MP for Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, Québec.[5]
In Hong Kong the term is rarely used. The current baby of the Legislative Council is Ho Kai-ming after three younger members of the Legislative Council, Nathan Law, Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus Leung were all disqualified over the oath-taking controversy.
Elected | Name | Constituency | Party | Age | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1991 | James To | Kowloon Southwest GC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #136C56;" data-sort-value="United Democrats of Hong Kong" | |
United Democrats | 28 | |
1998 | Bernard Chan | Insurance FC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #C0C0C0;" data-sort-value="Nonpartisan" | |
Nonpartisan | 33 | |
2008 | Chan Hak-kan | New Territories East GC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="DABHK" | |
DAB | 32 | |
2012 | Steven Ho | Agriculture and Fisheries FC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="DABHK" | |
DAB | 32 | |
2016 | Nathan Law | Hong Kong Island GC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #37C8B4;" data-sort-value="Demosisto" | |
Demosisto | 23 | |
2016 | Ho Kai-ming | Labour FC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF0000;" data-sort-value="HKFTU" | |
FTU | 31 |
The youngest-ever elected member of the National Assembly is Ilona Burka, who became MP at the age of 19 years, 5 months and 13 days on 12 May 1971, following the 1971 parliamentary election.
Member | Party | Date | |
---|---|---|---|
style="background-color:Template:Nazi Party/meta/color" | | Károly Wirth | NYKP | 1939–1944 |
András Kis | MKP | 1944–1945 | |
András Hegedüs | MKP | 1945 | |
style="background-color:Template:Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party/meta/color" | | István B. Rácz | FKGP | 1945–1947 |
János Gosztonyi | NPP | 1947–1949 | |
Etel Kurlik | MDP | 1949–1953 | |
Mária Inklovics | MDP MSZMP |
1953–1957 | |
Margit Kaptur | MSZMP | 1957–1958 | |
Jusztina Csarnai | MSZMP | 1958–1963 | |
István Ollári | MSZMP | 1963–1967 | |
István Bartha | MSZMP | 1967–1971 | |
Ilona Burka | MSZMP | 1971–1975 | |
Valéria Czégai | MSZMP | 1975–1980 | |
Ibolya Kovács | MSZMP | 1980–1985 | |
Márta Danka | MSZMP | 1985–1989 | |
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Edit Bödő-Rózsa | Ind. | 1989–1990 |
style="background-color:Template:Alliance of Free Democrats/meta/color" | | SZDSZ | ||
style="background-color:Template:Fidesz/meta/color" | | Béla Glattfelder | Fidesz | 1990–1993 |
style="background-color:Template:Fidesz/meta/color" | | Róbert Répássy | Fidesz | 1993–1994 |
style="background-color:Template:Hungarian Socialist Party/meta/color" | | László Botka | MSZP | 1994–1998 |
style="background-color:Template:Hungarian Socialist Party/meta/color" | | János Zuschlag | MSZP | 1998–2002 |
style="background-color:Template:Fidesz/meta/color" | | Péter Szijjártó | Fidesz | 2002–2006 |
style="background-color:Template:Hungarian Socialist Party/meta/color" | | László Nagy | MSZP | 2006–2010 |
style="background-color:Template:Jobbik/meta/color" | | Dóra Dúró | Jobbik | 2010–present |
Elected | Member | Affiliation | Age when elected | |
---|---|---|---|---|
2012 | Mohammad Hassannejad | Independent | 31 | |
2016 | Fatemeh Hosseini | List of Hope | 30 |
In the Republic of Ireland the term is rarely used, as most TDs are elected usually only in their thirties and later. The current baby of the Dáil is the Fianna Fáil deputy Jack Chambers (Dublin-West), who was 25 years old when elected in February, 2016.
The youngest TD of all time was William J. Murphy, elected age 21 years 29 days; the youngest female TD was Kathleen O'Connor, 21 years 7 months.
Elected | Name | Constituency | Party | Age | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1943 | Oliver J. Flanagan | Laois–Offaly
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | 23 | |
1948 | Neil Blaney | Donegal East
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | 26 | |
1949 | William J. Murphy | Cork West
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (Ireland)" | |
Labour | 21 | |
1951 | Declan Costello | Dublin North-West
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | 24 | |
1956 | Kathleen O'Connor | Kerry North
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DDFFDD;" data-sort-value="Clann na Poblachta" | |
Clann na Poblachta | 21 | |
1957 | Brigid Hogan | Galway South
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | 24 | |
1958 | Anthony Millar | Galway South
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | 23 | |
1961 | Lorcan Allen | Wexford
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | 21 | |
1965 | Desmond Foley | Dublin County
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | 24 | |
1969 | John Bruton | Meath
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | 22 | |
1975 | Máire Geoghegan-Quinn | Galway West
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | 24 | |
1975 | Enda Kenny | Mayo West
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | 24 | |
1977 | Síle de Valera | Dublin County Mid
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | 23 | |
1979 | Myra Barry | Cork North-East
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | 22 | |
1981 | Ivan Yates | Wexford
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | 21 | |
1984 | Brian Cowen | Laois–Offaly
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | 24 | |
1987 | Mary Coughlan | Donegal South-West
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | 21 | |
1995 | Mildred Fox | Wicklow
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | 24 | |
1997 | Denis Naughten | Longford–Roscommon
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | 24 | |
2002 | Damien English | Meath
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | 24 | |
2007 | Lucinda Creighton | Dublin South-East
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | 27 | |
2011 | Simon Harris | Wicklow
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | |
Fine Gael | 24 | |
2016 | Jack Chambers | Dublin West
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | |
Fianna Fáil | 25 |
The youngest senator in Seanad Éireann is Fintan Warfield who was elected as a senator at the age of 24.
The youngest MP in Malawi was Angela Zachepa who was voted in as MP at age 21.[7]
In Malaysia the term "Baby of the House" is rarely used. Nowadays, most MPs are elected in their thirties. In the past however, the youngest MPs have been in their early 20s. Of which, this includes the current Prime Minister of Malaysia and President of UMNO, Najib Razak who was elected at 22 years, 6 months years old in the 1976 by-election following the death of his father, Abdul Razak Hussein. He won uncontested primarily due to the nation's grief for the former Prime Minister.
The current youngest MP is Zairil Khir Johari aged 41 years, 9 months. The age of candidacy for election to public office at federal and state level is 21.
Name | Electorate | Party | Date of birth | Entered Parliament | Age | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Zahari Awang | Kuala Krai | style="background-color: Template:Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party/meta/color" | | PAS | 24 August 1974 | 24 | |
Najib Razak | Pekan | style="background-color: Template:Barisan Nasional/meta/color" | | BN (UMNO) | 23 July 1953 | 21 February 1976 | 22 |
Fong Po Kuan | Batu Gajah | style="background-color: Template:Democratic Action Party/meta/color" | | DAP | 15 September 1973 | 29 November 1999 | 26 |
Teo Nie Ching | Serdang | style="background-color: Template:Democratic Action Party/meta/color" | | DAP | 27 January 1981 | 8 March 2008 | 27 |
Zairil Khir Johari | Bukit Bendera | style="background-color: Template:Democratic Action Party/meta/color" | | DAP | 17 October 1982 | 5 May 2013 | 32 |
Like Australia, the term "Baby of the House" is rarely used. "Youngest MP" is the usual term. The current Baby of the House is Todd Barclay of the National Party, who was elected on 20 September 2014 aged 24.[9][10] Barclay succeeded Jami-Lee Ross of the National Party, who was elected to Parliament in the Botany by-election on 5 March 2011, aged 25.[9]
Name | Electorate | Party | Date of birth | Became baby | Age | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
James Stuart-Wortley | Christchurch Country
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | |
Independent | 16 January 1833 | 1 October 1853 | 20 | |
Robert Campbell | Oamaru
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | |
Independent | 8 January 1843 | 6 April 1866 | 23 | |
Ralph Richardson | Suburbs of Nelson
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | |
Independent | 1848 | 23 January 1871 | 22 | |
William Pearson | Ashley
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | |
Independent | 1854 | 9 December 1881 | 27 | |
Arthur Rhodes | Gladstone
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | |
Independent | 20 March 1859 | 26 September 1887 | 28 | |
Jackson Palmer | Waitemata
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFFFAA;" data-sort-value="Independent Liberal" | |
Independent Liberal | 1867 | 5 December 1890 | 23 | |
Patrick O'Regan | Inangahua
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFDF00;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Liberal Party" | |
Liberal | 6 February 1869 | 20 December 1893 | 24 | |
Thomas Wilford | Wellington Suburbs
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFDF00;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Liberal Party" | |
Liberal | 20 June 1870 | 4 December 1896 | 26 | |
Harry Bedford | City of Dunedin
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFDF00;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Liberal Party" | |
Liberal | 31 August 1877 | 25 November 1902 | 25 | |
Francis Fisher | Wellington Central
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFDF00;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Liberal Party" | |
Liberal | 22 December 1877 | 6 December 1905 | 27 | |
Tom Seddon | Westland
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFDF00;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Liberal Party" | |
Liberal | 2 July 1884 | 13 July 1906 | 22 | |
John A. Lee | Auckland East
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D82A20;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Labour Party" | |
Labour | 31 October 1891 | 7 December 1922 | 31 | |
George Black | Motueka
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #BBFFFF;" data-sort-value="United Party (New Zealand)" | |
United | 1904 | 14 November 1928 | 24 | |
Keith Holyoake | Motueka
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00BB00;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Reform Party" | |
Reform | 11 February 1904 | 1 December 1932 | 28 | |
Terry McCombs | Lyttelton
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D82A20;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Labour Party" | |
Labour | 5 September 1905 | 24 July 1935 | 29 | |
Ormond Wilson | Rangitikei
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D82A20;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Labour Party" | |
Labour | 18 November 1907 | 27 November 1935 | 28 | |
Joseph Cotterill | Wanganui
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D82A20;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Labour Party" | |
Labour | 26 September 1905 | 15 October 1938 | 28 | |
Tapihana Paraire Paikea | Northern Maori
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D82A20;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Labour Party" | |
Labour | 26 January 1920 | 24 September 1943 | 23 | |
Warren Freer | Mt Albert
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D82A20;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Labour Party" | |
Labour | 27 December 1920 | 24 September 1947 | 26 | |
Jonathan Hunt | New Lynn
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D82A20;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Labour Party" | |
Labour | 2 December 1938 | 26 November 1966 | 27 | |
Mike Moore | Eden
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D82A20;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Labour Party" | |
Labour | 28 January 1949 | 25 November 1972 | 23 | |
John Kirk | Sydenham
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D82A20;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Labour Party" | |
Labour | 27 June 1947 | 2 November 1974 | 27 | |
Marilyn Waring | Raglan
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00529F;" data-sort-value="New Zealand National Party" | |
National | 7 October 1952 | 29 November 1975 | 23 | |
Simon Upton | Waikato
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00529F;" data-sort-value="New Zealand National Party" | |
National | 7 February 1958 | 28 November 1981 | 23 | |
Deborah Morris | List MP
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #000000;" data-sort-value="New Zealand First" | |
NZ First | 9 August 1970 | 12 October 1996 | 26 | |
Darren Hughes | Ōtaki
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D82A20;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Labour Party" | |
Labour | 3 April 1978 | 27 July 2002 | 24 | |
Jacinda Ardern | List MP
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D82A20;" data-sort-value="New Zealand Labour Party" | |
Labour | 26 July 1980 | 8 November 2008 | 28 | |
Gareth Hughes | List MP
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #098137;" data-sort-value="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand" | |
Green | 31 October 1981 | 11 February 2010 | 28 | |
Jami-Lee Ross | Botany
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00529F;" data-sort-value="New Zealand National Party" | |
National | 10 December 1985 | 5 March 2011 | 25 | |
Todd Barclay | Clutha-Southland
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00529F;" data-sort-value="New Zealand National Party" | |
National | 8 June 1990 | 20 September 2014 | 24 |
The current titleholder is Hlomela Bucwa.
Entered | Name | Constituency | Party | Age | Note | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2002 | Fridolin Gustav | Stockholm Municipality
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2B912C;" data-sort-value="Green Party (Sweden)" | |
Green | 19 | Minister for Education, 2014–present | |
2006 | Annie Lööf | Jönköping County
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #124838;" data-sort-value="Centre Party (Sweden)" | |
Centre | 23 | Minister for Enterprise, 2011–2014 | |
2010 | Anton Abele | Stockholm Municipality
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #019CDB;" data-sort-value="Moderate Party" | |
Moderate | 18 | ||
2014 | Dennis Dioukarev | Jönköping County
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FEDF09;" data-sort-value="Sweden Democrats" | |
Sweden Democrats | 21 | ||
2015 | Jesper Skalberg Karlsson | Gotland County
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #019CDB;" data-sort-value="Moderate Party" | |
Moderate | 21 | Replaced Gustaf Hoffstedt on 19 January 2015 |
The current Baby of the House is Mr Jesper Skalberg Karlsson (entered in January 2015 at the age of 21). The youngest person ever to be elected MP to a Swedish parliament is Mr Anton Abele who was only aged 18 when elected in September 2010.[11] Current record holder for the world's youngest-ever elected MP is Anton Abele, who was at 18 years elected to the Swedish Parliament for his activism against street violence.[12]
At 19 years old Proscovia Alengot Oromait is currently the world's youngest MP and youngest ever MP in Africa. Miss Oromait is a member of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) in Uganda and a representative of Usuk County.
Becoming the Baby of the House is regarded as something of an achievement despite the lack of any special treatment that comes with the title. However, some MPs who have held the position for a considerable period – Matthew Taylor was the Baby of the House for over ten years – have found it somewhat embarrassing, as it may suggest that they have a lack of experience, although a perusal of the list shows that many babies in fact went on to enjoy long, significant and distinguished parliamentary careers.
From August 1999 to September 2001, all three of the leaders of the main political parties had been the youngest MPs in their party when they began their political careers (William Hague, Tony Blair, Charles Kennedy).
Of those whose ages can be verified, the youngest MP since the Reform Act of 1832[13] is Mhairi Black, elected in 2015 aged 20 years 237 days.[14] The age of candidacy for Parliament was lowered from 21 to 18 by the Electoral Administration Act of 2006.
Elected | Name | Constituency | Party | Age when elected | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1880 (b) | James Dickson | Dungannon
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | |
Liberal | 21 | |
1885 | Harry Levy-Lawson | St Pancras West
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | |
Liberal | 22 | |
1888 (b) | Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox | Chichester
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 22 | |
1890 (b) | Henry Harrison | Mid Tipperary
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Irish Parliamentary Party" | |
Irish Parliamentary | 22 | |
1891 (b) | Victor Cavendish | West Derbyshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 23 | |
1891 (b) | Frederick Smith | Strand
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 23 | |
1892 | Thomas Bartholomew Curran | Kilkenny City
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00FA9A;" data-sort-value="Irish National Federation" | |
Irish National Federation | 22 | |
1895 | Viscount Milton | Wakefield
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2061A2;" data-sort-value="Liberal Unionist Party" | |
Liberal Unionist | 22 | |
1898 (b) | Sir Samuel Scott, Bt | Marylebone West
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 24 | |
1898 (b) | Arthur Hill | West Down
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 24 | |
1900 | Richard Rigg | Appleby
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | |
Liberal | 23 | |
1904 (b) | Viscount Turnour | Horsham
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 21 | |
1906 | Lord Wodehouse | Mid Norfolk
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | |
Liberal | 22 | |
1910 | Charles Thomas Mills | Uxbridge
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 22 | |
1910 | Viscount Wolmer | Newton
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | |
Liberal | 23 | |
1912 (b) | Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt | Hythe
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 23 | |
1915 (b) | John Esmonde | North Tipperary
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Irish Parliamentary Party" | |
Irish Parliamentary | 21 | |
1916 (b) | Patrick Joseph Whitty | North Louth
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #99FF66;" data-sort-value="Irish Parliamentary Party" | |
Irish Parliamentary | 21 | |
1917 (b) | Lord Stanley | Liverpool Abercromby
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 22 | |
1918[15] | Joseph Aloysius Sweeney | West Donegal
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" | |
Sinn Féin | 21 | |
1919 (b) | Esmond Harmsworth | Isle of Thanet
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Coalition Conservative" | |
Coalition Conservative | 21 | |
1922 | Arthur Evans | Leicester East
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFF890;" data-sort-value="National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)" | |
National Liberal | 24 | |
1923 | Charles Rhys | Romford
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 24 | |
1924 | Hugh Lucas-Tooth | Isle of Ely
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 21 | |
1929 (b) | Jennie Lee | North Lanarkshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 24 | |
1929 | Frank Owen | Hereford
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | |
Liberal | 23 | |
1931 | Roland Robinson | Widnes
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 24 | |
1933 (b) | Lord Willoughby de Eresby | Rutland and Stamford
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 25 | |
1935 (b) | Charles Taylor | Eastbourne
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 24 | |
1935 | Malcolm Macmillan | Western Isles
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 22 | |
1940 (b) | John Profumo | Kettering
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 25 | |
1941 (b) | George Charles Grey | Berwick-upon-Tweed
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | |
Liberal | 22 | |
1944[16] | John Profumo | Kettering
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 29 | |
1945 (b) | Ernest Millington | Chelmsford
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #ff7f50;" data-sort-value="Common Wealth Party" | |
Common Wealth | 29 | |
1945 | Edward Carson | Isle of Thanet
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 25 | |
1948 (b) | Roy Jenkins | Southwark Central
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 27 | |
1950 | Peter Baker | South Norfolk
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 28 | |
1950 (b)[17] | Tony Benn | Bristol South East
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 25 | |
1950 (b) | Thomas Teevan | Belfast West
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" | |
UUP | 23 | |
1951[18] | Tony Benn | Bristol South East
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 26 | |
1954 (b) | John Eden | Bournemouth West
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 28 | |
1954 (b) | John Woollam | Liverpool West Derby
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 27 | |
1955[19] | Philip Clarke | Fermanagh and South Tyrone
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" | |
Sinn Féin | 21 | |
1955[19] | Peter Kirk | Gravesend
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 27 | |
1956 (b) | Marcus Kimball | Gainsborough
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 27 | |
1957 (b) | Robert Cooke | Bristol West
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 26 | |
1958 (b)[20] | Basil de Ferranti | Morecambe and Lunesdale
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 28 | |
1958 (b) | Patrick Wolrige-Gordon | East Aberdeenshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 23 | |
1959 (b) | Paul Channon | Southend West
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 23 | |
1964 | Teddy Taylor | Glasgow Cathcart
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 27 | |
1965 (b) | David Steel | Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | |
Liberal | 26 | |
1966 | John Ryan | Uxbridge
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 25 | |
1967 (b) | Les Huckfield | Nuneaton
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 24 | |
1969 (b) | Bernadette Devlin | Mid Ulster
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: olive;" data-sort-value="Unity (Northern Ireland)" | |
Unity | 21 | |
Feb 1974 | Dafydd Elis-Thomas | Merioneth
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #005B54;" data-sort-value="Plaid Cymru" | |
Plaid Cymru | 27 | |
Oct 1974 | Hélène Hayman | Welwyn and Hatfield
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 25 | |
1977 (b) | Andrew MacKay | Birmingham Stechford
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 27 | |
1979 (b) | David Alton | Liverpool Edge Hill
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | |
Liberal | 28 | |
1979 | Stephen Dorrell | Loughborough
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 27 | |
1981 (b)[21] | Bobby Sands | Fermanagh and South Tyrone
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Anti H-Block" | |
Anti H-Block | 27 | |
1981[16] | Stephen Dorrell | Loughborough
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 29 | |
1981 (b)[21] | Owen Carron | Fermanagh and South Tyrone
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Anti H-Block" | |
Anti H-Block | 28 | |
1983 | Charles Kennedy | Ross, Cromarty and Skye
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6C2f56;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic Party (UK)" | |
SDP | 23 | |
1987 (b) | Matthew Taylor | Truro
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FFD700;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (UK)" | |
Liberal | 24 | |
1997[22] | Chris Leslie | Shipley
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 24 | |
2000 (b) | David Lammy | Tottenham
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 27 | |
2003 (b) | Sarah Teather | Brent East
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | |
Liberal Democrats | 29 | |
2005 | Jo Swinson | East Dunbartonshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Liberal Democrats (UK)" | |
Liberal Democrats | 25 | |
2009 (b) | Chloe Smith | Norwich North
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Conservative Party (UK)" | |
Conservative | 27 | |
2010 | Pamela Nash | Airdrie and Shotts
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (UK)" | |
Labour | 25 | |
2015 | Mhairi Black | Paisley and Renfrewshire South
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FDF38E;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | |
SNP | 20 |
[ (b) – by-election]
As of 2017[update], the youngest member of the House of Lords is The Baroness Bertin (born 14 March 1978) who was created a life peer on 2 September 2016, at the age of 38.[23] Hereditary peer Lord Redesdale (born 18 July 1967) was created a life peer on 18 April 2000 at the age of 32, becoming the youngest ever life peer, to enable him to continue to sit after the removal of the majority of hereditary peers.
Standing Orders state that "No Lord under the age of one and twenty years shall be permitted to sit in the House". When most members of the Lords were hereditary peers, a peer who had inherited his or her peerage(s) while under age was entitled to take a seat on his or her 21st birthday. In theory, such a hereditary peer could be elected to sit in the House at that age; in practice, the youngest hereditary peer is Lord Freyberg (born 15 December 1970), who was elected in October 1999 at the age of 28.
While the term is used in the Commonwealth Parliaments, Baby of the House/Senate is not in general contemporary use in the United States, nor does being the youngest member guarantee special treatment in either house of Congress.
Members of the U.S. Congress tend to be older than parliamentarians elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a main factor being that the minimum ages for members of Congress is written into Article One of the United States Constitution, which forbids persons under the age of 25 from serving in the House and persons under the age of 30 from serving in the Senate. Moreover, election to the federal Congress is expensive and requires extensive contacts and recognition across a very wide area. Individuals aiming to serve in the federal legislature generally seek election to the state legislature (which generally have lower minimum ages for entry) or other state office before seeking to serve in Washington.
In the 115th Congress, which began on 3 January 2017, the youngest member of the United States House of Representatives is Elise Stefanik (R-NY 21), who was born on 2 July 1984 , and was first elected in 2015. She is also the youngest woman elected to the House in U.S. history. The second youngest member is Mike Gallagher (R-WI 8) who was born on 3 March 1984 , and was first elected in 2017. Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN 9) is the third youngest house member, born on 12 September 1983 .
Currently the youngest U.S. Senator is Tom Cotton (R-AR) born on 13 May 1977 , and first elected in 2014; Cory Gardner (R-CO) is the second youngest senator, and Chris Murphy (D-CT) is the third youngest.
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