noun. The rear benches in the House of Commons where junior members of Parliament sit behind government officeholders and their counterparts in the opposition party.

noun. New members of Congress considered as a group.

noun. any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons of Great Britain.

noun. In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), any bench behind either of the front benches and occupied by rank-and-file members.

noun. any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons

"Frontbenchers must all work to sustain backbench morale, they were told, even by making their share of backbench speeches outside their own responsibilities."

backbencher  backbenches  

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