All 658 seats in the House of Commons 330 seats needed for a majority
Registered
about 516,000 [1] (out of a population of 24,000,000)
First party
Second party
Leader
Earl Grey
Duke of Wellington
Party
Whig
Tory
Leader since
22 November 1830
22 January 1828
Last election
196 seats, 59.3%
250 seats, 38.4%
Seats won
370
235
Seat change
174
15
Popular vote
80,763
46,892
Percentage
63.3%
36.7%
Swing
4.0%
1.7%
Colours denote the winning party
The UK parliament after the 1831 election
Prime Minister before election
Earl Grey
Whig
Prime Minister after election
Earl Grey
Whig
The 1831 United Kingdom general election saw a landslide win by supporters of electoral reform, which was the major election issue. As a result, it was the last unreformed election, as the following Parliament ensured the passage of the Reform Act 1832. Polling was held from 28 April to 1 June 1831. The Whigs won a majority of 136 over the Tories, which was as near to a landslide as the unreformed electoral system could deliver. As the Government obtained a dissolution of Parliament once the new electoral system had been enacted, the resulting Parliament was a short one and there was another election the following year. The election was the first since 1715 to see a victory by a party previously in minority.
1826 election
MPs
1830 election
MPs
1831 election
MPs
1832 election
MPs
1835 election
MPs
^"Elections and the electorate in the Eighteenth Century". The Age of George III. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
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