British General Election 1886

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(in %)

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

51.40

45.13

3.41

0.06

Tories

Liberals

IP

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 1885

 % p

 10

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

+8.40

-2.52

-3.47

-2.41

Tories

Liberals

IP

Otherwise.

192

85

393

192 85 393 

A total of 670 seats

• Liberals : 192
• HRL : 85
• Tories : 393

The general election in the United Kingdom in 1886 took place from July 1 to July 27, 1886.

consequences

The election reversed the results of the 1885 election with the Conservative Party, led by Lord Salisbury, entering into an electoral pact with the breakaway unionist wing of the Liberals led by Lord Hartington and Joseph Chamberlain . The new party of Liberal Unionists 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 allied Irish Parliamentary Party, led by Charles Stewart Parnell , were placed in a distant second place. That ended the period of liberal dominance - they had been in power for 18 of the 27 years since 1859 and won five of the six elections held during that time. It was also the first election since the 1841 election in which the Conservatives received a majority of the people's vote.