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United Kingdom general election, 1880
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All 652 seats to the House of Commons
31 March–27 April 1880[1] 5 April 1880^[1]
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	William Ewart Gladstone	Lord Beaconsfield	William Shaw
Party	Liberal	Conservative	Home Rule
Leader since	3 December 1868	27 February 1868	May 1879
Leader's seat	Midlothian	Earl of Beaconsfield	County Cork
Last election	242 seats, 52.0%	350 seats, 44.3%	60 seats, 3.7%
Seats won	352	237	63
Seat change	+110	-113	+3
Popular vote	1,836,423	1,426,351	95,535
Percentage	54.7%	42.5%	2.8%
Previous PM Lord Beaconsfield Conservative Subsequent PM William Ewart Gladstone Liberal

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The UK general election of 1880 was a general election in the United Kingdom held from March to April 1880.

At the culmination of the Midlothian campaign, the Liberals, led by the fierce oratory of retired former Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone in attacking the supposedly immoral foreign policy of the Disraeli government, secured one of their largest ever majorities in the election, leaving the Conservatives a distant second. As a result of the campaign, the Liberal leaders, Lord Hartington and Lord Granville, withdrew in favour of Gladstone, who thus became Prime Minister a second time.

1 Results
- 1.1 Voting summary
- 1.2 Seats summary
2 References
3 Footnotes

Results

UK General Election 1880
		Candidates						Votes
Party		Standing	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Liberal	499	352			+ 110		54.7	1,836,423	+ 2.7
	Conservative	521	237			- 113		42.5	1,426,351	- 1.8
	Home Rule	81	63			+ 3		2.8	95,535	- 0.9
	Others	2	0	0	0	0		0.0	1,107	0.0

Total votes cast: 3,359,416.

Voting summary

Crowds wait outside Leeds Town Hall to hear the result.

Popular vote

Liberal			54.66%
Conservative			42.46%
Home Rule			2.84%
Others			0.03%

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats

Liberal			53.99%
Conservative			36.35%
Home Rule			9.66%

References

F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987
British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher (Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2000)
Spartacus: Political Parties and Election Results

Footnotes

^ The Bartholomew Archive William Gladstone and the 1880 General Election

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