During the 1992–97 Parliament, Betty Boothroyd was the Speaker, John Major served as Prime Minister, and Neil Kinnock, John Smith, Margaret Beckett, and Tony Blair served as Leader of the Opposition.

[1] These representative diagrams show the composition of the parties as it was directly after the 1992 general election and before the 1997 general election:

This is not the official seating plan of the House of Commons, which has five rows of benches on each side, with the government party to the right of the speaker and opposition parties to the left, but with room for only around two-thirds of MPs to sit at any one time.

Two seats were vacant when Parliament was dissolved preparatory to the 1997 general election: One further MP died prior to the 1997 general election (who was standing down due to health problems, incidentally) during the period in which parliament was dissolved: The government voting total is the total number of Conservative MPs, minus the two Conservative Deputy Speakers.

The opposition voting total is the total number of other MPs, minus the Speaker and the Labour Deputy Speaker.