The Conservatives have 74 new MPs - 30 from safe seats, 37 gained from other parties, and seven from defended marginal seats where the previous Conservative MP was standing down.

In other swearing in news, Michael Gove did the double yesterday. 

The new Lord Chancellor was sworn in both in the House of Commons and at the Royal Courts of Justice in the presence of senior members of the judiciary.

Mr Gove, like his immediate predecessor Chris Grayling, isn’t a lawyer and the precedent has been established that non-lawyers don't wear wigs when taking the oath.

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Labour MP Rachael Maskell swears her oath to her constituents in York Central.

This harks back to 2008, when 22 cross-bench MPs campaigned to end the tradition of swearing allegiance to the Queen when entering parliament. Former Lib Dem MP Norman Baker led calls for the choice to swear an oath to their constituents and the nation instead.

The new SNP MPs seem to taking the rules of the House in their stride...and breaking them. They are breaking into applause every time an MP swears their oath in Gaelic.

Richard Burgon, Labour MP for East Leeds, is the first in this Parliament to make it very clear he is a republican.  

When making his affirmation he added a caveat at the beginning: "As someone that believes that the head of state should be elected, I make this oath in order to serve my constituents..."

Prayers were held again today for the first time in this Parliament.

That means MPs could reserve seats with prayer cards. 

And it seems the 'awkward squad' bench is still the scene of skirmishes.  Dennis Skinner is sat firmly in his place, but still surrounded by the many new SNP MPs that want to claim his territory.

SNP MP for Ochil and South Perthshire Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh swears the oath on the Koran. The clerks ask her to replace the Koran so, as non-believers, they don't touch the text.

Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire won Bristol West, a seat targeted by the Green party.

Naz Shah can now officially take her seat as Labour MP for Bradford West.

Tipped by the Independent newspaper as , externalone of the new MPs to look out for, Ms Shah comes from a difficult background, obliged to take care of her family after her mother was sent to prison, and was forced into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.

She beat Respect Party former MP, George Galloway, by over 10,000 votes    

Our first Stewart McDonald has sworn in, he's the SNP MP for Glasgow South. Not to be confused with Stuart McDonald, SNP Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East MP who is yet to come.

A succession of SNP MPs take the oath and affirm, including MP for Edinburgh West Michelle Thomson, MP for Edinburgh South West Joanna Cherry and MP for East Lothian - or in his words, "the Garden of Scotland"- George Kerevan. 

“I (name of Member) do solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare and affirm, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law."

“I (name of Member) swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.”

"The 56" as the new SNP MPs are known are now arriving at the despatch box to swear in.  First up is Ross, Skye and Lochaber MP, Ian Blackford.

Hansard - the official report of what happened in parliament - seems to have mistaken a few MPs during signing in yesterday.  The publication of the official report lists MPs John Whittingdale as having the marvellous middle name of "Flashy" and David Lammy's middle name as "London". 

If only it were true. 

We can confirm that their middle names are Flasby and Linden respectively. We understand Hansard has already been updated to reflect this.

At 20-years-old, third year politics student from Glasgow University Mhairi Black is the youngest MP to sit in the chamber since 1667, when 13 year old Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, was elected as an MP in Devon.

She won the Paisley and Renfrewshire seat, beating former shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander in one of the election night’s jaw-dropping defeats.