The Times Guide to the House of Commons is a political reference guide book published by Times Newspapers giving coverage of general elections in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Following most general election

General election

In a parliamentary political system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen. The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.The term...

s since 1880

United Kingdom general election, 1880

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, the book has been published. The contents usually include the following;

• a summary of general election results.

• lists of Members of Parliament
  Member of Parliament
  A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
  
   (MPs) elected to the House of Commons
  British House of Commons
  The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...
  
   and government ministers, including defeated and retiring MPs and ministers in the House of Lords
  House of Lords
  The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
  
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• a history of the previous Parliament and the events leading up to the general election.

• reviews of the election campaign.

• a list of opinion poll
  Opinion poll
  An opinion poll, sometimes simply referred to as a poll is a survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence...
  
  s held throughout the election campaign.

• election results by constituency, and a photograph and biographical details of every MP (and prior to 2001, biographies of unsuccessful candidates).

• a list of by-election
  By-election
  A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
  
  results of the previous Parliament.

• a statistical breakdown of election results by countries, counties, cities, etc., and a comparison with the previous general election results.

• the full text of the manifestos of major political parties, and excerpts of manifestos for minor political parties.

• an index of all election candidates.

• a fold-up map of British constituencies illustrating the election results.

The most recent version of the book tends to be available for around a year after publication, although older editions have in some cases have become rare collectors' items. New editions of the book for general elections held in the 1920s which were never published at the time were published in the early 21st century.