United Kingdom general election, 1880

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United Kingdom general election, 1880
All 652 seats to the House of Commons
31 March–27 April 1880[1] 5 April 1880[1]
		First party	Second party	Third party
Leader		William Gladstone	Lord Beaconsfield	William Shaw
Party		Liberal	Conservative	Home Rule
Leader since		3 December 1868	27 February 1868	May 1879
Leader's seat		Midlothian	Earl of Beaconsfield	County Cork
Last election		242 seats, 52.0%	350 seats, 44.3%	60 seats, 3.7%
Seats won		352	237	63
Seat change		+110	-113	+3
Popular vote		1,836,423	1,426,351	95,535
Percentage		54.7%	42.5%	2.8%
Incumbent PM Lord Beaconsfield Conservative Subsequent PM William Gladstone Liberal

The UK general election of 1880 was a general election in the United Kingdom held from March to April 1880.

At the culmination of Midlothian campaign, the Liberals, led by the fierce oratory of retired former Liberal leader William Gladstone in attacking the supposedly immoral foreign policy of the Disraeli government, secured one of their largest ever majorities in the election, leaving the Conservatives a distant second. As a result of the campaign, the Liberal leaders, Lord Hartington and Lord Granville, withdrew in favour of Gladstone, who thus became Prime Minister a second time.

Results

Total votes cast: 3,359,416.

Voting summary

Crowds wait outside Leeds Town Hall to hear the result.

Seats summary

References

• F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987
• British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher (Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2000)
• Spartacus: Political Parties and Election Results

Footnotes

1. ^ The Bartholomew Archive William Gladstone and the 1880 General Election

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