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1892 United Kingdom general election

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4–26 July 1892 (1892-07-04 – 1892-07-26)

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All 670 seats in the House of Commons
336 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

77.4%

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Marquess of Salisbury	William Ewart Gladstone	Justin McCarthy
Party	Conservative and Liberal Unionist	Liberal	Irish National Federation
Leader since	April 1881	April 1880	1891
Leader's seat	House of Lords	Midlothian	North Longford
Last election	393 seats, 51.4%	191 seats, 41.8%	Part of IPP
Seats won	314	272	72
Seat change	79	80	72
Popular vote	2,028,586	1,958,598	224,528
Percentage	47.0%	45.4%	5.2%
Swing	4.4%	3.6%	New party

Colours denote the winning party

Prime Minister before election

Marquess of Salisbury
Conservative

Prime Minister after
election

William Ewart Gladstone
Liberal

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.

Results
- Voting summary
- Seats summary
See also

Results

UK General Election 1892
			Candidates						Votes
Party		Leader	Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Conservative and Liberal Unionist	Lord Salisbury	606	314	21	100	−79	46.87	46.99	2,028,586	−4.4
	Liberal	William Ewart Gladstone	535	271	98	19	+79	40.44	45.37	1,958,598	+0.2
	Irish National Federation	Justin McCarthy	85	72			+72	10.75	5.20	224,528	N/A
	Irish National League	John Redmond	44	9			+9	1.34	1.55	67,119	N/A
	Independent Labour	N/A	9	3	3	0	+3	0.45	0.51	22,198	N/A
	Ind. Conservative	N/A	4	0	0	0	0	0	0.13	5,556	N/A
	Independent Liberal	N/A	6	1	1	0	+1	0.15	0.08	3,572	N/A
	Scottish Trades Councils	Chisholm Robertson	4	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	2,313	N/A
	Independent Nationalist	N/A	2	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	2,180	N/A
	Scottish Parliamentary Labour	Keir Hardie	3	0	0	0	0	0	0.04	1,866	N/A
	Social Democratic Federation	H. M. Hyndman	2	0	0	0	0	0	0.02	659	N/A
	Independent	N/A	3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	137	N/A

Total votes cast: 4,317,312.
Electorate: 6,160,541 (5,614,202 in contested seats)
Turnout: 77.4%

Voting summary

Popular vote

Conservative and Liberal Unionist			46.99%
Liberal			45.37%
Irish National Federation			5.20%
Irish National League			1.55%
Independent Labour			0.51%
Independent Conservative			0.13%
Independent Liberal			0.08%
Others			0.17%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats

Conservative and Liberal Unionist			46.72%
Liberal			40.60%
Irish National Federation			10.75%
Irish National League			1.34%
Independent Labour			0.45%
Independent Liberal			0.15%

1892 United Kingdom general election facts for kids

Contents

Results

Voting summary

Seats summary

See also