31 March – 27 April 1880 (1880-03-31 – 1880-04-27)[1]
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All 652 seats in the House of Commons 327 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Marquess of Hartington
Earl of Beaconsfield
William Shaw
Party
Liberal
Conservative
Home Rule
Leader since
January 1875
27 February 1868
May 1879
Leader's seat
North East Lancashire
House of Lords
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
1,426,349
95,528
Percentage
54.7%
42.5%
2.8%
Swing
2.7%
1.8%
0.9%
Colours denote the winning party
Prime Minister before election
Earl of Beaconsfield
Conservative
Prime Minister after the election
William Gladstone
Liberal
The 1880 United Kingdom general election was a general election in the United Kingdom held from 31 March to 27 April 1880.
Its intense rhetoric was led by the Midlothian campaign of the Liberals, particularly the fierce oratory of Liberal leader William Gladstone.[2] He vehemently attacked the foreign policy of the government of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, as utterly immoral.
Liberals secured one of their largest-ever majorities, leaving the Conservatives a distant second. As a result of the campaign, the Liberal Commons leader, Lord Hartington and that in the Lords, Lord Granville, stood back in favour of Gladstone, who thus became Prime Minister a second time. It was the last general election in which any party other than the Conservatives won a majority of the votes (rather than a plurality).
1868 election
MPs
1874 election
MPs
1880 election
MPs
1885 election
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1886 election
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^"Data" (PDF), parliament.uk
^Fitzsimons 1960, pp. 187–201.
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