All 670 seats in the House of Commons 336 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
74.2%
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Marquess of Salisbury
William Ewart Gladstone
Charles Stewart Parnell
Party
Conservative and Liberal Unionist
Liberal
Irish Parliamentary
Leader since
April 1881
April 1880
17 October 1882
Leader's seat
House of Lords
Midlothian
Cork City
Last election
247 seats, 43.4%
319 seats, 47.4%
86 seats, 6.9%
Seats won
393
192
85
Seat change
146
127
1
Popular vote
1,417,627
1,244,683
94,050
Percentage
51.4%
45.1%
3.4%
Swing
8.7%
2.2%
3.5%
Colours denote the winning party
Prime Minister before election
William Ewart Gladstone
Liberal
Prime Minister after election
Marquess of Salisbury
Conservative
The 1886 United Kingdom general election took place from 1 to 27 July 1886, following the defeat of the Government of Ireland Bill 1886. It resulted in a major reversal of the results of the 1885 election as the Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury, were joined in an electoral pact with the breakaway Unionist wing of the Liberals led by Lord Hartington (later the Duke of Devonshire) and Joseph Chamberlain. The new Liberal Unionist party elected 77 members and gave the Conservatives their parliamentary majority, but did not join them in a formal coalition.
William Ewart Gladstone's Liberals, who supported the Irish Home Rule movement, and their sometimes allies the Irish Parliamentary Party, led by Charles Stewart Parnell, were placed a distant second. The split in the Liberal Party ended the period of Liberal dominance. They had held power for 18 of the 27 years since 1859 and won five of the six elections held during that time, but would only be in power for three of the next nineteen years. This was also the first election since the 1841 election that the Conservatives won a plurality or majority of the popular vote.
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