All 670 seats in the House of Commons 336 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
77.4%
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Marquess of Salisbury
William Ewart Gladstone
Justin McCarthy
Party
Conservative and Liberal Unionist
Liberal
Irish National Federation
Leader since
April 1881
April 1880
1891
Leader's seat
House of Lords
Midlothian
North Longford
Last election
393 seats, 51.4%
191 seats, 41.8%
Part of IPP
Seats won
314
272
72
Seat change
79
80
72
Popular vote
2,028,586
1,958,598
224,528
Percentage
47.0%
45.4%
5.2%
Swing
4.4%
3.6%
New party
Colours denote the winning party
Prime Minister before election
Marquess of Salisbury
Conservative
Prime Minister after election
William Ewart Gladstone
Liberal
The 1892 United Kingdom general election was held from 4 to 26 July 1892. It saw the Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury again win the greatest number of seats, but no longer a majority as William Ewart Gladstone's Liberals won 80 more seats than in the 1886 general election. The Liberal Unionists who had previously supported the Conservative government saw their vote and seat numbers go down.
Despite being split between Parnellite and anti-Parnellite factions, the Irish Nationalist vote held up well. As the Liberals did not have a majority on their own, Salisbury refused to resign on hearing the election results and waited to be defeated in a vote of no confidence on 11 August. Gladstone formed a minority government dependent on Irish Nationalist support.
The Liberals had engaged in failed attempts at reunification between 1886 and 1887. Gladstone however was able to retain control of much of the Liberal party machinery, particularly the National Liberal Federation. Gladstone used the annual NLF meetings as a platform to consolidate various Liberal causes, particularly the Newcastle meeting of 1891, which gave its name to the radical Newcastle Programme. This programme placed Irish Home Rule first, followed by Welsh and Scottish disestablishment, reduction in factory work hours, free education, electoral reform, land reform, reform or abolition of the House of Lords, and the removal of duties on basic foods. This programme would later be disowned by the party leadership following the Liberal defeat in the 1895 election.[1]
1885 election
MPs
1886 election
MPs
1892 election
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1895 election
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1900 election
MPs
^(Haigh 1990, p. 259)
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