United Kingdom general election, 1892

4–26 July 1892

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

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Lord Salisbury	William Ewart Gladstone	Justin McCarthy
Party	Conservative and Liberal Unionist	Liberal	Irish Parliamentary
Leader since	April 1881	April 1880	6 December 1891
Leader's seat	Marquess of Salisbury	Midlothian	North Longford
Last election	393 seats, 51.1%	192 seats, 41.8%	85 seats, 3.4%
Seats won	313	272	81
Seat change	80	80	4
Popular vote	2,159,150	2,088,019	309,329
Percentage	47.0%	45.4%	7.0%
Swing	4.1%	3.6%	3.7%

PM before election

Lord Salisbury
Conservative

Subsequent PM

William Ewart Gladstone
Liberal

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The 1892 United Kingdom general election was held from 4 July to 26 July 1892. It saw the Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury, win the greatest number of seats, but not enough for an overall majority as William Ewart Gladstone's Liberals won many 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.

Results 1
- Voting summary 1.1
- Seats summary 1.2
See also 2
Sources 3
External links 4

Results

UK General Election 1892
		Candidates						Votes
Party		Standing	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Conservative and Liberal Unionist	606	313 (268 + 45)			- 80	46.71	47.0	2,159,150	-4.1
	Liberal	535	272			+ 80	40.59	45.4	2,088,019	+3.6
	Irish Parliamentary	129	81	0	3	- 4	12.08	7.0	309,329	+3.7
	Independent Labour	9	3	3	0	+ 3	0.44	0.5	22,198	N/A
	Independent Conservative	4	0	0	0	0		0.1	7,211	N/A
	Independent Liberal	6	1	1	0	+ 1		0.1	3,572	N/A
	Scottish Trades Councils Labour	4	0	0	0	0		0.0	2,313	N/A
	Independent Nationalist	2	0	0	0	0		0.0	2,180	N/A
	Scottish Parliamentary Labour	3	0	0	0	0		0.0	2,043	N/A
	Social Democratic Federation	2	0	0	0	0		0.0	659	N/A
	Independent	3	0	0	0	0		0.0	139	N/A

The totals above exclude two Irish candidates whose party affiliation was unclear to F. W. S. Craig at the time he compiled his voting figures: Col. J. C. Lowry who gained 897 votes standing for University of Dublin as either an Independent or Official Conservative, and John O'Connor Power who gained 609 votes standing in Mayo West as a Gladstonian Liberal. Craig labelled both candidates: "Others".

Total votes cast: 4,598,319. All parties shown.

Voting summary

Popular vote

Conservative and Liberal Unionist			46.96%
Liberal			45.41%
Irish Parliamentary			6.73%
Independent			0.77%
Others			0.14%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats

Conservative and Liberal Unionist			46.72%
Liberal			40.6%
Irish Parliamentary			12.1%
Independent Liberal			0.15%
Independent Labour			0.45%

Sources

F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 (Macmillan, 1974)
Spartacus: Political Parties and Election Results

External links

For an alternative view of the count where each vote in a two-member seat is counted as half a vote (because each elector had two votes) see:

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