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Journal of Liberal History

On This Day

24 July 1886

Start of polling in the 1886 general election

Devastated by the Home Rule split, the Liberals fared badly and Lord Salisbury’s Conservatives, supported by the anti-Irish Home Rule Liberal Unionists led by Lord Hartington, returned to power. The Liberals lost 127 seats, returning just 192 MPs, in contrast to the Conservative and their allies’ total of 393, an increase of 144 and a majority of the popular vote – the first time they had achieved this since 1841.

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