United Kingdom general election, 1892
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The 1892 United Kingdom general election was held from 4 July to 26 July 1892. It saw the Conservatives
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, led by Lord Salisbury, win the greatest number of seats, but not enough for an overall majority as William Ewart Gladstone
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's Liberals
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 won many more seats than in the 1886 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1886
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. 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
Irish National Federation
The Irish National Federation was a nationalist political party in Ireland. It was founded in March 1891 by former members of the Irish National League who had left the Irish Parliamentary Party in protest when Charles Stewart Parnell refused to resign the party leadership as a result of his...

 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
1892 vote of no confidence against the government of the Marquess of Salisbury
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 on 11 August. Gladstone formed a minority government dependent on Irish Nationalist support.

Results

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The totals above exclude two Irish candidates whose party affiliation was unclear to F. W. S. Craig
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Frederick Walter Scott Craig was a Scottish psephologist and compiler of the standard reference books covering United Kingdom Parliamentary election results. He originally worked in public relations, compiling election results in his spare time which were published by the Scottish Unionist Party...

 at the time he compiled his voting figures: Col. J. C. Lowry who gained 897 votes standing for University of Dublin as either an Independent or Official Conservative, and John O'Connor Power
John O'Connor Power
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 who gained 609 votes standing in Mayo West
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 as a Gladstonian
William Ewart Gladstone
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 Liberal. Craig labelled both candidates: "Others".

Total votes cast: 4,598,319. All parties shown.

Voting summary

Seats summary

See also

  • MPs elected in the UK general election, 1892
  • The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918

Sources

  • F. W. S. Craig
    F. W. S. Craig
    Frederick Walter Scott Craig was a Scottish psephologist and compiler of the standard reference books covering United Kingdom Parliamentary election results. He originally worked in public relations, compiling election results in his spare time which were published by the Scottish Unionist Party...

    , British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987
  • F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 (Macmillan, 1974)
  • Spartacus: Political Parties and Election Results

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For an alternative view of the count where each vote in a two-member seat is counted as half a vote (because each elector had two votes) see:
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