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28 peers elected by the crossbench hereditary peers; 15 peers elected by the whole House; By convention, whole-House elections elect members of the same affiliation as the departed peer. [2] These numbers elected by each group reflected the relative strengths of the parties among hereditary peers in 1999; this allocation has remained unchanged ...
List of excepted hereditary peers List of former members of the House of Lords (2000–present) List of hereditary peers removed under the House of Lords Act 1999
Hereditary peers excluded under the House of Lords Act 1999 # Title Name Date succeeded [a] Introduction or Sat first in the Lords Qualifying title(s) [b] Aff. Ref. Royal family: The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE, AC, QSO, CD, PC: Philip Mountbatten: 20 Nov 1947 [c] 21 Jul 1948: XB [1] The Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, AK, QSO, CD, PC
The law applicable to a British hereditary peerage depends on which Kingdom it belongs to. Peerages of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom follow English law; the difference between them is that peerages of England were created before the Act of Union 1707, peerages of Great Britain between 1707 and the Union with Ireland in 1800, and peerages of the United Kingdom since 1800.
Non-affiliated members of the House of Lords are peers who do not belong to any parliamentary group in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. They do not take a political party 's whip , nor affiliate to the crossbench group, nor are they Lords Spiritual (active Church of England bishops).
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[8] [9] For the 15 peers elected by the whole House, life peers may also vote. As of September 2023, there have been 18 by-elections [10] among Conservative peers; 19 by-elections [11] among Crossbench peers; 2 among Liberal Democrat peers; and 2 among Labour peers. In addition, there have been 14 by-elections by the whole House.
This category encompasses hereditary peers excepted by virtue of section 2 of the House of Lords Act 1999.Most excepted hereditary peers are placed in the subcategory Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999, except those who are ex officio members – i.e. holders of the offices of Earl Marshal or Lord Great Chamberlain since 1999.