All 658 seats in the House of Commons 330 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Leader
Earl of Liverpool
Marquess of Lansdowne
Party
Pittite
Whig
Leader since
8 June 1812
1824[1]
Seats won
428
198
Seat change
87
17
The UK parliament after the 1826 election
Prime Minister before election
Earl of Liverpool
Pittite
Prime Minister after election
Earl of Liverpool
Pittite
The 1826 United Kingdom general election saw the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool win a substantial and increased majority over the Whigs. In Ireland, liberal Protestant candidates favouring Catholic emancipation, backed by the Catholic Association, achieved significant gains.
The seventh United Kingdom Parliament was dissolved on 2 June 1826. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 25 July 1826, for a maximum seven-year term from that date. The maximum term could be and normally was curtailed, by the monarch dissolving the Parliament, before its term expired. As of 2023, the Earl of Liverpool remains the most recent Prime Minister to have won four successive elections.
1818 election
MPs
1820 election
MPs
1826 election
MPs
1830 election
MPs
1831 election
MPs
^Lansdowne was the acting leader of the Whigs.
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