United Kingdom general election, 1895

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13 July – 7 August 1895

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All 670 seats in the House of Commons
336 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Lord Salisbury	Lord Rosebery	John Redmond (INL) John Dillon (INF)
Party	Conservative and Liberal Unionist	Liberal	Irish Parliamentary
Leader since	April 1881	5 March 1894	1891 (Redmond) 1892 (Dillon)
Leader's seat	Marquess of Salisbury	Baron Rosebery	Waterford City (Redmond) East Mayo (Dillon)
Last election	313 seats, 47.0%	272 seats, 45.4%	81 seats, 7.0%
Seats won	411	177	82
Seat change	98	95	1
Popular vote	1,894,772	1,765,266	149,530
Percentage	49.0%	45.7%	4.0%
Swing	2.0%	0.3%	3.0%

PM before election

Lord Salisbury
Conservative

Subsequent PM

Lord Salisbury
Conservative

The United Kingdom general election of 1895 was held between 13 July and 7 August 1895. It was won by the Conservatives led by Lord Salisbury who formed an alliance with the Liberal Unionist Party and had a large majority over the Liberals, led by Lord Rosebery. The Irish Parliamentary Party was split at this time, the majority of its MPs (the "Anti-Parnellites") following John Dillon whilst a rump (the "Parnellites") followed John Redmond.

Total votes cast: 3,866,282. All parties shown.

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: