query-74cd46f40e200d5e892882444c0939b1

rq turtle/ttl

This will remove all terms which have an end date - and thus only return ones which have not ended, which means those that are current. Some older historic data does not have end dates - but they also don't usually have start dates, so neatly don't show up here! In principle we could avoid the question of historic data by just asking for the current parliament (?ps ps:P39 wd:Q126063447) but this approach means it will also work after the next election - so we are future-proofing. Both approaches are valid. To find all sitting MPs in a specific party, you would set a specific value for ?party :

Use at

• https://query.wikidata.org/sparql

PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/>
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/>
PREFIX ps: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/statement/>
PREFIX pq: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/qualifier/>
PREFIX p: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?person WHERE
{
  ?person wdt:P31 wd:Q5 . ?person p:P39 ?ps . 
  ?ps ps:P39 ?term . ?term wdt:P279 wd:Q16707842 .
  ?ps pq:P580 ?start . ?ps pq:P768 ?seat . 
  ?ps pq:P4100 wd:Q9626 . 
  FILTER NOT EXISTS { ?ps pq:P582 ?end } .
}

Query found at

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_British_Politicians/Building_Queries