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Youngest member of a parliamentary house

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 from which the term originated. 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. as of 2022, the current Baby of the House is the Member for Brisbane Stephen Bates (age 31). Senator Fatima Payman (age 27) is the youngest member of the Senate.

in the 2020 Azerbaijani parliamentary election, Sabina Khasayeva at the age of 27 was the youngest MP elected.

The youngest ever elected member of the House of Commons of Canada 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. In the past, MPs such as Sean O'Sullivan, Pierre Poilievre, Andrew Scheer, Claude André Lachance and Lorne Nystrom have also held the distinction. Eric Melillo is the youngest current MP, representing the riding of Kenora, Ontario, a member of the Conservative Party of Canada; born in 1998, elected at 21 years of age. The youngest member of the Senate of Canada is Patrick Brazeau of Repentigny, Quebec; born 1974, appointed at 34 years of age.

In Germany the term is rarely used. Emilia Fester was the youngest MP elected in the 2021 federal election at the age of 23. Emily Vontz became the youngest MP in 2023, at the age of 22. In 2022, Pascal Leddin became the youngest member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony.

Kerryne James was elected in the 2022 Grenadian general election at the age of 24 becoming the country's youngest ever legislator.

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 Károly Wirth NYKP 1939–1944 András Kis MKP 1944–1945 András Hegedüs MKP 1945 István B. Rácz FKGP 1945–1947 János Gosztonyi NPP 1947–1949 Etel Kurlik MDP 1949–1953 Mária Inklovics MDPMSZMP 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 Edit Bödő Rózsa Ind. 1989–1990 SZDSZ Béla Glattfelder Fidesz 1990–1993 Róbert Répássy Fidesz 1993–1994 László Botka MSZP 1994–1998 János Zuschlag MSZP 1998–2002 Péter Szijjártó Fidesz 2002–2006 László Nagy MSZP 2006–2010 Dóra Dúró Jobbik 2010–2018 Péter Ungár LMP 2018–2022 Miklós Hajnal Momentum 2022–present

In the Republic of Ireland the term is rarely used, as TDs normally enter the Dáil after a political career in local government, usually only in their thirties and later. The current baby of the Dáil is the Fianna Fáil deputy James O'Connor (Cork East), who was 22 years and 7 months old when elected in February 2020. 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.

In Israel the term is seldom used. The youngest member of the current Knesset is Yitzhak Wasserlauf of Otzma Yehudit elected in 2022 aged 30. The youngest member of the Knesset ever is Moshe Nissim, elected in 1959 aged 24.

The youngest MP in Malawi was Angela Zachepa who was voted in as MP at age 21.

In Malaysia, the term is very rarely used. Most MPs are directly elected and Senators are appointed or indirectly elected usually in their middle age but a few were elected as an MP at a very young age including former Prime Minister and former Pekan MP Najib Razak who was elected at 22 years and 6 months in age in 1976. The youngest ever elected is Batu MP Prabakaran Parameswaran, who was elected at the age of 22 years and 3 months in 2018. The present Baby of the House is Sungai Petani MP Mohammed Taufiq Johari who was elected in 2022. Mohammed Taufiq is a month younger than Prabakaran. Any citizen 18 years of age or older can become a candidate and be directly elected to the Dewan Rakyat as an MP and State Legislative Assemblies as an MLA while any citizen 30 years of age or older can be appointed or indirectly elected to the Dewan Negara as a Senator.

In the 2019 general election, Kitlang Kabua became the youngest person ever elected to the Nitijeļā.

In the Congress of the Philippines, the term "Baby of the House" is rarely used; the term "Benjamin" of the chamber is used instead. the Jones Law, which created the Senate, had prescribed the minimum age of 30. The current Benjamin of the House is Representative Braeden Jaime Cojuangco of the 1st District of Tarlac. Meanwhile, Senator Mark Villar has been the youngest Senator since 2022.

+EnteredNamePartyDistrictDate of BirthAssumed Office AgeNoteRef1987Gerardo A. Roxas Jr. Capiz–1st196019871992Ralph Recto Batangas–4th196419921995Mike Defensor Quezon City–3rd196919952002Joel Villanueva Partylist197520022013Xavier Jesus Romualdo Camiguin19862013sworn in Feliciano Belmonte as Speaker2016Dennis LaoganAng KabuhayanPartylist19902016sworn in Pantaleon Alvarez and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as Speaker2019Braeden John Biron Iloilo–4th19942019sworn in Alan Peter Cayetano as Speaker New People 22

The current, since 2017, titleholder is Hlomela Bucwa of the Democratic Alliance.

Rümeysa Kadak (born 16 May 1996) is the youngest MP in the history of Republic of Turkey.

Saddam Hosein is the baby of the house of the 12th Republican Parliament.

At 19 years old, Proscovia Alengot Oromait was the world's youngest MP and youngest ever MP in Africa when elected in 2011. Oromait is a member of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) in Uganda and was a representative of Usuk County until 2016. She was succeeded by Hellen Auma Wandera as the youngest member of parliament in Uganda.

Becoming the Baby of the House of Commons 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 many holders of the title have gone on to enjoy long and distinguished parliamentary careers. From August 1999 to September 2001, all three of the leaders of the main political parties Tony Blair, William Hague and Charles Kennedy had been the youngest MPs in their party when they began their political careers, though only Kennedy had been Baby of the House. Of those whose ages can be verified, the youngest MP since the Reform Act 1832 is Mhairi Black, elected in 2015 aged 20 years 237 days. The age of candidacy for Parliament was lowered from 21 to 18 by the Electoral Administration Act 2006. William Pitt the Younger was elected at 21 and became Prime Minister two years later in 1783. There were younger MPs in earlier centuries: Christopher Monck was elected as MP for Devon in 1667 aged 13; when his father died three years later and Monck became Duke of Albemarle, he could not then take his seat in the House of Lords until aged 21. Owen Carron directly replaced Bobby Sands as both MP for Fermanagh South Tyrone and Baby of the House after Sands' death on hunger strike, but neither ever took his seat. George Charles Grey is the only other Baby of the House to die while in post, in World War Two.

The title 'Baby of the House' is not used in the House of Lords, though the youngest member is recorded on the House website. as of March 2024, the youngest member of the House is Baroness Smith of Llanfaes (born 15 May 1996), who was created a life peer at the age of 27, becoming the youngest ever life peer. The youngest male member of the House is Lord Kempsell (born 8 May 1992), who was likewise created a life peer in July 2023 at the age of 31. 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 the day before his or her 21st birthday. In theory, such a hereditary peer could still be elected to sit in the House at that age; in practice, the youngest hereditary peer to have been elected was 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 or Senate is not in general contemporary use in the United States, nor does being the youngest member confer special treatment in either house of Congress. Members of the US 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 those under the age of 25 from serving in the House, and those 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 118th Congress, which began on 3 January 2023, the youngest member of the United States House of Representatives is Maxwell Frost, who was born on 17 January 1997, Age: 27 and was first elected in 2022. Currently the youngest US senator is Jon Ossoff, born on 16 February 1987, Age: 37, and first elected to a full term in the Senate in the 2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia.