29 July – 1 September 1830 (1830-07-29 – 1830-09-01)
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All 658 seats in the House of Commons 330 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Duke of Wellington
Marquess of Lansdowne
Sir Edward Knatchbull
Party
Tory
Whig
Ultra-Tories
Leader since
22 January 1828
1824[1]
1829
Leader's seat
House of Lords
House of Lords
Kent
Seats won
250
196
60
Seat change
178
2
60
Popular vote
62,554
96,536
2,305
Percentage
38.4%
59.3%
1.4%
Colours denote the winning party[2]
The UK parliament after the 1830 election
Prime Minister before election
Duke of Wellington
Tory
Prime Minister after vote of no confidence
Earl Grey
Whig
The 1830 United Kingdom general election was triggered by the death of King George IV and produced the first parliament of the reign of his successor, King William IV. Fought in the aftermath of the Swing Riots, it saw electoral reform become a major election issue. Polling took place in July and August[3] and the Tories won a plurality over the Whigs, but division among Tory MPs allowed Earl Grey to form an effective government and take the question of electoral reform to the country the following year.
The eighth United Kingdom Parliament was dissolved on 24 July 1830. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 14 September 1830, 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. This election was the first since 1708 to cause the collapse of the government.[4]
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^Lansdowne was the acting leader of the Whigs.
^Hatched constituencies each returned equal numbers of Whigs and Tories.
^The 1830 General Election
^B. Hilton,[year missing]A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People?[publisher missing]
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