1865 United Kingdom general election

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox election The 1865 United Kingdom general election was held 7 July 1865 to 24 July 1865 to elect 658 members of the House of Commons. It saw the Liberals, led by Lord Palmerston, increase their large majority over the Earl of Derby's Conservatives to 80.

Palmerston died in October the same year and was succeeded by Lord John Russell as Prime Minister.Template:Sfn Despite the Liberal majority, the party was divided by the issue of further parliamentary reform, and Russell resigned after being defeated in a vote in the House of Commons in 1866, leading to minority Conservative governments under Derby and then Benjamin Disraeli.

This was the last United Kingdom general election until 2019 where a party increased its majority after having been returned to office at the previous election with a reduced majority. Template:UK general election navigation

Corruption

The 1865 general election was regarded by contemporaries as being a generally dull contest nationally, which exaggerated the degree of corruption within individual constituencies. In his PhD thesis, Cornelius O'Leary described The Times as having reported "the testimony is unanimous that in the General Election of 1865 there was more profuse and corrupt expenditure than was ever known before".Template:Sfn As a result of allegations of corruption, 50 election petitions were lodged, of which 35 were pressed to a trial; 13 ended with the elected MP being unseated. In four cases a Royal Commission had to be appointed because of widespread corrupt practices in the constituency.Template:Sfn

As a result, when he became Prime Minister in 1867, Benjamin Disraeli announced that he would introduce a new method for election petition trials, which were then determined by a committee of the House of Commons, resulting in the Parliamentary Elections Act 1868, whereby two Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Exchequer of Pleas or Queen's Bench would be designated to try election petitions with full judicial salaries.Template:Sfn

Constituencies

Many new constituencies were used for this election:

Results

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Voting summary

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Seats summary

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Regional results

Great Britain

Party Candidates Unopposed Seats Seats change Votes % % change
Template:Party name with colour 433 133 311 Template:Increase5 457,289 60.0
Template:Party name with colour 347 115 244 Template:Decrease1 304,538 40.0
Total 780 248 555 Template:Same position 761,827 100
England
Party Candidates Unopposed Seats Seats change Votes % % change
Template:Party name with colour 359 88 251 Template:Same position 406,978 59.0
Template:Party name with colour 308 94 213 Template:Increase4 291,238 41.0
Total 667 182 464 Template:Increase4 698,216 100
Scotland
Party Candidates Unopposed Seats Seats change Votes % % change
Template:Party name with colour 51 30 42 Template:Increase2 43,480 85.4
Template:Party name with colour 17 7 11 Template:Decrease2 4,305 14.6
Total 68 37 53 Template:Same position 47,785 100
Wales
Party Candidates Unopposed Seats Seats change Votes % % change
Template:Party name with colour 21 15 18 Template:Increase3 4,565 74.0
Template:Party name with colour 16 12 14 Template:Decrease3 1,600 26.0
Total 37 27 32 Template:Same position 6,165 100

Ireland

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Party Candidates Unopposed Seats Seats change Votes % % change
Template:Party name with colour 83 28 58 Template:Increase8 51,532 55.6
Template:Party name with colour 59 27 45 Template:Decrease8 41,497 44.4
Total 142 55 103 Template:Same position 93,029 100

Universities

Party Candidates Unopposed Seats Seats change Votes % % change
Template:Party name with colour 6 2 6 7,395 76.5
Template:Party name with colour 2 0 0 2,266 23.5
Total 8 2 6 9,661 100

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See also

Notes

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References

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Sources and further reading

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