1885 United Kingdom general election in Scotland information
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1885 United Kingdom general election
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24 November – 18 December 1885 (1885-11-24 – 1885-12-18)
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All 72 Scottish seats to the House of Commons
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
William Ewart Gladstone
Marquess of Salisbury
Gavin Brown Clark
Party
Liberal
Conservative
Crofters Party
Leader since
April 1880
April 1881
Leader's seat
Midlothian
House of Lords
Caithness
Seats before
53
7
0
Seats won
51
10
4
Seat change
1
3
4
Popular vote
238,627
151,137
16,551
Percentage
53.3%
34.3%
3.7%
Swing
16.8%
4.4%
3.7%
Results of the 1885 election in Scotland
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A general election was held in the United Kingdom between 24 November and 18 December 1885 and 70 constituency seats in Scotland were contested. One of the two university seats for Scotland was also contested. Scotland had gained 12 seats since the previous election as a result of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and the electorate had increased from 293,581 to 560,580 as a result of the Representation of the People Act 1884 (out of 24,397,385 people registered in the 1881 census).
Of particular note was the splintering of the Liberal representation in Scotland. Some 7 MPs were returned as Independent Liberals, with Edinburgh in particular seeing 3 of its 4 constituencies return Independent Liberals.
In the western Highlands the Crofters Party emerged as the dominant force, taking four constituencies. The Independent Liberal MP elected for the Wick Burghs also aligned with the group. The emergence of the group was owed to the Representation of the People Act 1884, which had reduced the property qualifications for voters. As a result many Crofters were able to vote for the first time in 1885. The Crofting Party worked in close collaboration with the Highland Land League, and opposed the lack of secure and tenure and the severely reduced access to land for crofters.[1]
^Chris Cook; Brendan Keith (1975). British Historical Facts, 1830–1900. Springer Verlag. pp. 96–97. ISBN 9781349013487.
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