1886 United Kingdom general election

none May 2014 August 2020 1886 United Kingdom general election United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland parliamentary no 1885 United Kingdom general election 1885 List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885 1892 United Kingdom general election 1892 All 670 seats in the House of Commons 336 List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1886 1886 7 1 1886 7 27 yes 2,758,15174.2% (7.0 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 247 seats, 43.0% 393 146 1,417,627 51.4% 8.4 pp William Ewart Gladstone, 1892 (cropped).jpg 120 120 160 0 0 William Ewart Gladstone April 1880 Liberal Party (UK) Midlothian 319 seats, 47.7% 192speaker 127 1,244,683 45.1% 2.6 pp Charles Stewart Parnell - Brady-Handy.jpg 130 120 160 0 0 Charles Stewart Parnell 17 October 1882 Irish Parliamentary Party Cork City 86 seats, 6.9% 85 1 94,050 3.4% 3.5 pp Prime Minister Prime Minister after election William Ewart Gladstone Liberal Party (UK) Marquess of Salisbury Conservative Party (UK) United Kingdom general election 1886.svg 380px Colours denote the winning party File:1886 UK GE Composition diagram.svg Diagram displaying the composition of the House of Commons following the general election The 1886 United Kingdom general election took place from 1 to 27 July 1886, following the defeat of the Government of Ireland Bill 1886. It resulted in a major reversal of the results of the 1885 election as the Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury, were joined in an electoral pact with the breakaway Unionist wing of the Liberals led by Lord Hartington (later the Duke of Devonshire) and Joseph Chamberlain. The new Liberal Unionist party elected 77 members and gave the Conservatives their parliamentary majority, but did not join them in a formal coalition. William Ewart Gladstone's Liberals, who supported the Irish Home Rule movement, and their sometimes allies the Irish Parliamentary Party, led by Charles Stewart Parnell, were placed a distant second. The split in the Liberal Party ended the period of Liberal dominance. They had held power for 18 of the 27 years since 1859 and won five of the six elections held during that time, but would only be in power for three of the next nineteen years. The political realignment resulting from the Liberal Unionist split also meant that between this election and the end of the Second World War, only one election (in 1906) would result in a party other than the Conservatives forming a majority government (though the Liberals, and later the Labour Party, would form minority governments with support from smaller parties). This was also the first election since the 1841 election in which the Conservatives won a plurality or majority of the popular vote. They would ultimately win at least a plurality of the popular vote in every general election until 1945, again with the exception of the 1906 election. none 1880 1885 1886 1892 1895 Electoral system Most of the MPs were elected through first-past-the-post voting in single-member districts. Conversely, 54 MPs were elected in two-seat districts by the use of plurality block voting, where each voter could cast up to two votes. Results Summary of seats returned + centre|420px PartyBritish Electoral Facts Colin Rallings Micheal Thrasher 50 Total Politics 978-1-907278-03-7 2006Ferris, Wesley (2011). "The Candidates of the Liberal Unionist Party, 1886–1912". Parliamentary History. 30# 2: 142–157. doi:10.1111/j.1750-0206.2011.00246.x. Leader MPs Aggregate votes Of total Of totalAdjusted for multi-member constituencies. Conservative-Liberal Unionist Marquess of Salisbury 393 393 670 1 yes Conservative Party (UK) 1,520,886 51.4% 51.4 Conservative Party (UK) Conservative Party Marquess of Salisbury 316 316 670 1 yes Conservative Party (UK) 1,104,495 37.4% 37.4 Conservative Party (UK) Liberal Unionist Party Marquess of Harrington 77 77 670 1 yes Liberal Unionist Party 416,391 14.0% 14.0 Liberal Unionist Party Liberal Party William Ewart Gladstone 192 192 670 1 yes Liberal Party (UK) 1,353,581 45.0% 45.0 Liberal Party (UK) Irish Parliamentary Party Charles Stewart Parnell 85 85 670 1 yes Irish Parliamentary Party 97,905 3.5% 3.5 Irish Parliamentary Party Full results centre|500x500px UK General Election 1886 Conservative and Liberal Unionist Lord Salisbury 563 393 161 14 +146 1,417,627 51.40 58.66 +8.7 Liberal Party (UK) William Ewart Gladstone 449 192speaker The seat and vote count figures for the Liberals given here include the Speaker of the House of Commons, Arthur Peel 24 152 −127 1,244,683 45.13 28.66 −2.2 Irish Parliamentary Party Charles Stewart Parnell 100 85 1 2 −1 94,050 3.41 12.69 −3.4 Independent Liberal N/A 1 0 0 0 0 1,247 0.05 0 N/A Independent Liberal Unionist N/A 2 0 0 0 0 544 0.02 0 N/A |} Total votes: 2,758,151Electorate: 5,708,030 (3,734,832 in contested seats)Turnout: 74.2%General Election Results 1885-1979 http://www.election.demon.co.uk/geresults.html 14 February 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20120130011015/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/geresults.html 30 January 2012 Vote summary Popular vote #ddd 620px 350px Conservative and Liberal Unionist Conservative and Liberal Unionist 51.40 Liberal Liberal Party (UK) 45.13 Irish Parliamentary Irish Parliamentary Party 3.41 Independent Liberal Independent Liberal 0.05 Independent Liberal Unionist Independent Liberal Unionist 0.02 Seats summary Parliamentary seats #ddd 620px 350px Conservative and Liberal Unionist Conservative and Liberal Unionist 58.66 Liberal Liberal Party (UK) 28.66 Irish Parliamentary Irish Parliamentary Party 12.69 See also List of MPs elected in the 1886 United Kingdom general election List of MPs for constituencies in Wales (1886–1892) Parliamentary franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918 1886 United Kingdom general election in Scotland 1886 United Kingdom general election in Ireland 1886 United Kingdom general election in Wales Notes References F. W. S. Craig F. W. S. Craig British Electoral Facts: 1832–1987 1989 Dartmouth Gower 0900178302 British Electoral Facts 1832–1999 Colin Rallings Colin Rallings Michael Thrasher Michael Thrasher Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2000 Further reading Blaxill, Luke. From: The War of Words: The Language of British Elections, 1880–1922 (2020) pp. 81–123. Roberts, Matthew. "Election Cartoons and Political Communication In Victorian England.' Cultural & Social History (2013) 10#3 pp 369–395, covers 1860 to 1890. Walker Brian The 1885 and 1886 General Elections in Ireland History Ireland 13 36–40 6 2005 27725365 References 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:1886 elections in the United Kingdom General election 1886 Category:July 1886 in the United Kingdom Category:Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Category:William Ewart Gladstone