United Kingdom general election, 1895

13 July – 7 August 1895

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	Justin McCarthy
Party	Conservative and Liberal Unionist	Liberal	Irish Parliamentary
Leader since	April 1881	5 March 1894	6 December 1891
Leader's seat	Marquess of Salisbury	Earl of Rosebery	North Longford
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 from 13 July – 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.

Results

UK General Election 1895
			Candidates						Votes
Party		Leader	Standing	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Conservative	Lord Salisbury	477	340						1,536,100
	Liberal Unionist	Joseph Chamberlain	111	71						358,672
	Conservative and Liberal Unionist	Lord Salisbury	588	411			+ 98	61.3	49.0	1,894,772	+2.0
	Liberal	Lord Rosebery	447	177			- 95	26.4	45.7	1,765,266	+0.3
	Irish Parliamentary	Justin McCarthy	105	82	1	0	+ 1	12.2	4.0	152,959	-3.0
	Ind. Labour Party	Keir Hardie	28	0	0	0	0		1.0	44,325
	Social Democratic Federation	H. M. Hyndman	4	0	0	0	0		0.1	3,730
	Independent Lib-Lab	N/A	2	0	0	0	0		0.1	2,677
	Independent Liberal	N/A	3	0	0	1	- 1		0.1	1,893
	Independent Labour	N/A	1	0	0	0	- 3		0.0	608
	Independent	N/A	2	0	0	0	0		0.0	52

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

Popular vote

Conservative and Liberal Unionist			49.01%
Liberal			45.66%
Irish Parliamentary			3.87%
Independent Labour			1.15%
Independent			0.22%
Others			0.1%

Parliamentary seats

Conservative and Liberal Unionist			61.34%
Liberal			26.42%
Irish Parliamentary			12.24%

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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