United Kingdom general election, 1841

United Kingdom general election, 1841

1837 ← 29 June–22 July 1841 → 1847

List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1837 ← → Members elected

All 658 seats in the House of Commons 330 seats needed for a majority   First party Second party Third party   Leader Sir Robert Peel The Viscount Melbourne Daniel O'Connell Party Conservative Whig Irish Repeal Leader since 19 December 1834 16 July 1834 15 April 1840 Leader's seat Tamworth Baron Melbourne County Cork Last election 314 seats, 48.3% 344 seats, 51.7% N/A Seats won 367 271 20 Seat change 53 73 20 Popular vote 306,314 273,902 12,537 Percentage 50.9% 46.9% 1.9% Swing 2.6% 4.8% N/A

Colours denote the winning party.

PM before election Lord Melbourne Whig Subsequent PM Sir Robert Peel Conservative

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Lord Melbourne
Whig

Sir Robert Peel
Conservative

In the 1841 United Kingdom general election, there was a big swing as Sir Robert Peel's Conservatives took control of the House of Commons. The Whigs lost votes to the Irish Repeal group. The Chartists picked up only a few votes despite their popular support, because voting was still restricted to a small percentage of the population. Only 3.17% of the total population voted. It is regarded as having been one of the most corrupt elections in British parliamentary history, the Westminster Review stating that the “annals of parliamentary warfare contained no page more stained with the foulness of corruption and falsehood than that which relates the history of the general election in the year 1841.”

Total votes: 593,445

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