1892 United Kingdom general election

none August 2020 May 2014 1892 United Kingdom general election United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland parliamentary no 1886 United Kingdom general election 1886 List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1886 1895 United Kingdom general election 1895 All 670 seats in the House of Commons 336 List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1892 1892 7 4 1892 7 26 yes 4,317,31277.4% (3.2 pp) Robert-Gascoyne-Cecil-3rd-Marquess-of-Salisbury (cropped).jpg 120 120 160 0 0 Marquess of Salisbury April 1881 Conservative and Liberal Unionist House of Lords 393 seats, 51.4% 314 79 2,028,586 47.0% 4.4 pp William Ewart Gladstone, 1892 (cropped).jpg 120 120 160 0 0 William Ewart Gladstone April 1880 Liberal Party (UK) Midlothian 191 seats, 45.1% 272Includes Arthur Peel (Speaker of the House of Commons) and Sir Edward Watkin (Independent Liberal) 80 1,958,598 45.4% 0.3 pp Justin McCarthy, 1891.jpg 120 120 160 0 0 Justin McCarthy 1891 Irish National Federation North Longford Part of IPP 72 72 224,528 5.2% New party Prime Minister Prime Minister afterelection Marquess of Salisbury Conservative Party (UK) William Ewart Gladstone Liberal Party (UK) United Kingdom general election 1892.svg 330px Colours denote the winning party File:1892 UK GE Composition diagram.svg Diagram displaying the composition of the House of Commons following the election The 1892 United Kingdom general election was held from 4 to 26 July 1892. It saw the Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury again win the greatest number of seats, but no longer a majority as William Ewart Gladstone's Liberals won 80 more seats than in the 1886 general election. The Liberal Unionists who had previously supported the Conservative government saw their vote and seat numbers go down. Despite being split between Parnellite and anti-Parnellite factions, the Irish Nationalist vote held up well. As the Liberals did not have a majority on their own, Salisbury refused to resign on hearing the election results and waited to be defeated in a vote of no confidence on 11 August. Gladstone formed a minority government dependent on Irish Nationalist support. The Liberals had engaged in failed attempts at reunification between 1886 and 1887. Gladstone however was able to retain control of much of the Liberal party machinery, particularly the National Liberal Federation. Gladstone used the annual NLF meetings as a platform to consolidate various Liberal causes, particularly the Newcastle meeting of 1891, which gave its name to the radical Newcastle Programme. This programme placed Irish Home Rule first, followed by Welsh and Scottish disestablishment, reduction in factory work hours, free education, electoral reform, land reform, reform or abolition of the House of Lords, and the removal of duties on basic foods. This programme would later be disowned by the party leadership following the Liberal defeat in the 1895 election.Haigh 1990 259 none 1885 1886 1892 1895 1900 Results center|300px UK General Election 1892 Conservative and Liberal Unionist Lord Salisbury 606 314 21 100 −79 2,028,586 46.99 46.87 −4.4 Liberal Party (UK) William Ewart Gladstone 535 271 98 19 +79 1,958,598 45.37 40.44 +0.2 7,677 Irish National Federation Justin McCarthy 85 72 +72 224,528 5.20 10.75 N/A 9,973 Irish National League John Redmond 44 9 +9 67,119 1.55 1.34 N/A 1,824 Independent Labour N/A 9 3 3 0 +3 22,198 0.51 0.45 N/A 7,399 Independent Conservative N/A 4 0 0 0 0 5,556 0.13 0 N/A N/A Independent Liberal N/A 6 1 1 0 +1 3,572 0.08 0.15 N/A 3,572 Scottish United Trades Councils Labour Party Chisholm Robertson 4 0 0 0 0 2,313 0.05 0 N/A N/A Independent Nationalist N/A 2 0 0 0 0 2,180 0.05 0 N/A N/A Scottish Parliamentary Labour Keir Hardie 3 0 0 0 0 1,866 0.04 0 N/A N/A Social Democratic Federation H. M. Hyndman 2 0 0 0 0 659 0.02 0 N/A N/A Independent (politician) N/A 3 0 0 0 0 137 0.00 0 N/A N/A |} Total votes cast: 4,317,312.All parties shown.Electorate: 6,160,541 (5,614,202 in contested seats)Turnout: 77.4% https://web.archive.org/web/20120130011015/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/geresults.html 30 January 2012 http://www.election.demon.co.uk/geresults.html General Election Results 1885-1979 10 June 2022 dead Voting summary Popular vote #ddd 600px 350px Conservative and Liberal Unionist Conservative and Liberal Unionist 46.99 Liberal Liberal Party (UK) 45.37 Irish National Federation Irish National Federation 5.20 Irish National League Irish National League 1.55 Independent Labour Independent Labour 0.51 Independent Conservative Independent Conservative 0.13 Independent Liberal Independent Liberal 0.08 Others #777777 0.17 Seats summary Parliamentary seats #ddd 600px 350px Conservative and Liberal Unionist Conservative and Liberal Unionist 46.72 Liberal Liberal Party (UK) 40.60 Irish National Federation Irish National Federation 10.75 Irish National League Irish National League 1.34 Independent Labour Independent Labour 0.45 Independent Liberal Independent Liberal 0.15 See also List of MPs elected in the 1892 United Kingdom general election List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (1892–1895) Parliamentary franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918 1892 United Kingdom general election in Scotland 1892 United Kingdom general election in Ireland 1892 United Kingdom general election in Wales 1892 United Kingdom local elections Notes References 30em Further reading Blaxill, Luke. From: The War of Words: The Language of British Elections, 1880–1922 (2020) pp. 81–123. Cawood Ian The 1892 General Election and the Eclipse of the Liberal Unionists Parliamentary History 29 331–357 3 2010 10.1111/j.1750-0206.2010.00137.x free Cawood Ian The Unionist 'Compact' in West Midland Politics 1891–1895 Midland History 2013 F. W. S. Craig F. W. S. Craig British Electoral Facts: 1832–1987 1989 Dartmouth Gower 0900178302 Craig F. W. S. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918 Macmillan 1974 The Guardian 26 July 2013 From the archive, 26 July 1892: Britain's first Asian MP elected https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/jul/26/election-naoroji-finsbury-1892 The Guardian 2 May 2018 Haigh Christopher 1990 The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=0NrVJb1rWq0C&q=1892+general+election+salisbury&pg=PA259 Cambridge University Press 9780521395526 Christopher Haigh Lloyd-Jones Naomi The 1892 general election in England: Home Rule, the Newcastle programme and positive Unionism Historical Research 2020 93 259 73–104 10.1093/hisres/htz009 free Pelling Henry Henry Pelling Social Geography of British Elections 1885–1910 1967 External links Spartacus: Political Parties and Election Results United Kingdom election results—summary results 1885–1979 https://web.archive.org/web/20120130011015/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/geresults.html 30 January 2012 Category:1892 elections in the United Kingdom General election 1892 Category:July 1892 in the United Kingdom Category:Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Category:William Ewart Gladstone