United Kingdom general election, 1802
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The United Kingdom general election, 1802 was the election to the House of Commons of the second Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was the first to be held after the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The First Parliament of the United Kingdom had been composed of members of the former Parliaments of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
The Parliament of Great Britain held its last general election in 1796. The final election for the Parliament of Ireland was held in 1797.
The first united Parliament was dissolved on 29 June 1802. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 31 August 1802, for a maximum seven-year term from that date. (The maximum term could be and normally was curtailed, by the monarch dissolving the Parliament, before its term expired.)
The Tory Prime Minister, Henry Addington, led a war time administration of pro-government Whigs and Tories in office during part of the Napoleonic Wars.
The previous Prime Minister, William Pitt the younger, had been out of office since 1801. King George III had forced Pitt to resign by refusing to agree to Catholic emancipation (allowing Catholics to sit in Parliament) following the Union. His faction in Parliament was generally supportive of the Addington Ministry, but was semi-detached from it.
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