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Constituencies and MPs

< General Election - November 1868 >

Westminster Elections

MPs by Constituency

Candidates by %age of Vote

MPs by Return Date

Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Updated: 20 July 2024
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Summary
LIB	381
CON	272
LIB/CON	2
Ind LIB	1
Speaker	1
Ind CON	1

Aberdeen	William Henry Sykes (LIB)
Aberdeen & Glasgow Universities	Rt Hon James Moncrieff (LIB)
Abingdon	Hon Charles Hugh Lindsay (CON)
Andover	Hon Dudley Francis Fortescue (LIB)
Anglesea	Richard Davies (LIB)
Antrim County	Hon Edward O'Neill (CON) George Henry Seymour (CON)
Argyll	John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne (LIB)
Armagh City	John Vance (CON)
Armagh County	Sir William Verner, Bt (CON) Sir James Matthew Stronge, Bt (CON)
Ashton-under-Lyne	Thomas Walton Mellor (CON)
Athlone	John James Ennis (LIB)
Aylesbury	Nathaniel Mayer de Rothschild (LIB) Samuel George Smith (CON)
Ayr District of Burghs	Edward Henry John Crauford (LIB)
Banbury	Bernhard Samuelson (LIB)
Bandon	William Shaw (LIB)
Banffshire	Robert William Duff (LIB)
Barnstaple	Thomas Cave (LIB) Charles Henry Williams (CON)
Bath	Sir William Tite (LIB) Dr Donald Dalrymple (LIB)
Beaumaris District of Boroughs	Hon William Owen Stanley (LIB)
Bedford	James Howard (LIB) Samuel Whitbread (LIB)
Bedfordshire	Francis Charles Hastings Russell (LIB) Richard Thomas Gilpin (CON)
Belfast	William Johnston (CON) Thomas McClure (LIB)
Berkshire	Richard Benyon (CON) Robert James Loyd-Lindsay (CON) John Walter (LIB)
Berwick-upon-Tweed	William Coutts Keppel, Viscount Bury (LIB) John Stapleton (LIB)
Berwickshire	David Robertson (LIB)
Beverley	Sir Henry Edwards, Bt (CON) Edmund Hegan Kennard (CON)
Bewdley	Sir Richard Atwood Glass (CON)
Birkenhead	John Laird (CON)
Birmingham	George Dixon (LIB) Philip Henry Muntz (LIB) John Bright (LIB)
Blackburn	William Henry Hornby (CON) Joseph Feilden (CON)
Bodmin	Hon Edward Frederic Leveson-Gower (LIB)
Bolton	John Hick (CON) William Gray (CON)
Boston	John Wingfield Malcolm (CON) Thomas Parry (CON)
Bradford	William Edward Forster (LIB) Henry William Ripley (LIB)
Brecknockshire	Hon Godfrey Charles Morgan (CON)
Brecon	Howel Gwyn (CON)
Bridgnorth	Henry Whitmore (CON)
Bridgwater	Alexander William Kinglake (LIB) Philip Vanderbyl (LIB)
Bridport	Thomas Alexander Mitchell (LIB)
Brighton	James White (LIB) Prof Henry Fawcett (LIB)
Bristol	Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley (LIB) Samuel Morley (LIB)
Buckingham	Sir Harry Verney, Bt (LIB)
Buckinghamshire	Caledon George du Pré (CON) Rt Hon Benjamin Disraeli (CON) Nathaniel Grace Lambert (LIB)
Burnley	Richard Shaw (LIB)
Bury	Robert Needham Philips (LIB)
Bury St Edmunds	Edward Greene (CON) Joseph Alfred Hardcastle (LIB)
Bute	Charles Dalrymple (CON)
Caithness	George Traill (LIB)
Calne	Lord Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice (LIB)
Cambridge	Robert Richard Torrens (LIB) William Fowler (LIB)
Cambridge University	Rt Hon Spencer Horatio Walpole (CON) Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope (CON)
Cambridgeshire	Lord George John Manners (CON) Charles Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston (CON) Rt Hon Henry Bouverie William Brand (LIB)
Canterbury	Henry Alexander Munro Butler-Johnstone (Ind CON) Theodore Henry Brinckman (LIB)
Cardiff District of Boroughs	James Frederick Dudley Crichton-Stuart (LIB)
Cardigan District of Boroughs	Sir Thomas Davies Lloyd, Bt (LIB)
Cardiganshire	Evan Matthew Richards (LIB)
Carlisle	Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bt (LIB) Edmund Potter (LIB)
Carlow	William Addis Fagan (LIB)
Carlow County	Henry Bruen (CON) Arthur McMurrough Kavanagh (CON)
Carmarthen District of Boroughs	John Stepney Cowell-Stepney (LIB)
Carmarthenshire	Edward John Sartoris (LIB) John Jones (CON)
Carnarvon District of Boroughs	William Bulkeley Hughes (LIB)
Carnarvonshire	Thomas Love Duncombe Jones-Parry (LIB)
Carrickfergus	Marriott Robert Dalway (CON)
Cashel	James Lyster O'Beirne (LIB)
Cavan County	Hon Hugh Annesley (CON) Edward James Saunderson (LIB)
Chatham	Arthur John Otway (LIB)
Chelsea	Charles Wentworth Dilke (LIB) Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, Bt (LIB)
Cheltenham	Henry Bernhard Samuelson (LIB)
Chester	Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor (LIB) Henry Cecil Raikes (CON)
Chichester	Lord Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox (CON)
Chippenham	Gabriel Goldney (CON)
Christchurch	Edmund Haviland Burke (LIB)
Cirencester	Allen Alexander Bathurst (CON)
City of London	Rt Hon George Joachim Goschen (LIB) William Lawrence (LIB) Robert Wigram Crawford (LIB) Charles Bell (CON)
Clackmannanshire & Kinross-shire	William Patrick Adam (LIB)
Clare County	Crofton Moore Vandeleur (CON) Sir Colman Michael O'Loghlen, Bt (LIB)
Clitheroe	Ralph Assheton (CON)
Clonmel	John Bagwell (LIB)
Cockermouth	Isaac Fletcher (LIB)
Colchester	John Gurdon Rebow (LIB) Dr William Brewer (LIB)
Coleraine	Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bt (CON)
Cork City	John Francis Maguire (LIB) Nicholas Daniel Murphy (LIB)
Cork County	McCarthy Downing (LIB) Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry (LIB)
Coventry	Henry William Eaton (CON) Alexander Staveley Hill (CON)
Cricklade	Hon Frederick William Cadogan (LIB) Sir Daniel Gooch, Bt (CON)
Darlington	Edmund Backhouse (LIB)
Denbigh District of Boroughs	Charles James Watkin Williams (LIB)
Denbighshire	Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bt (CON) George Osborne Morgan (LIB)
Derby	Michael Thomas Bass (LIB) Samuel Plimsoll (LIB)
Devizes	Sir Thomas Bateson, Bt (CON)
Devonport	John Delaware Lewis (LIB) Montague Chambers (LIB)
Dewsbury	John Simon (LIB)
Donegal County	Thomas Connolly (CON) James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton (CON)
Dorchester	Charles Napier Sturt (CON)
Dorset	Hon William Henry Berkeley Portman (LIB) Henry Gerard Sturt (CON) John Floyer (CON)
Dover	Alexander George Dickson (CON) George Jessel (LIB)
Down County	Lord Arthur Edwin Hill-Trevor (CON) William Brownlow Forde (CON)
Downpatrick	William Keown (CON)
Drogheda	Benjamin Whitworth (LIB)
Droitwich	Rt Hon Sir John Somerset Pakington, Bt (CON)
Dublin City	Sir Arthur Edward Guinness, Bt (CON) Jonathan Pim (LIB)
Dublin County	Ion Trant Hamilton (CON) Rt Hon Thomas Edward Taylor (CON)
Dublin University	Anthony Lefroy (CON) John Thomas Ball (CON)
Dudley	Henry Brinsley Sheridan (LIB)
Dumfries District of Burghs	Robert Jardine (LIB)
Dumfriesshire	Sir Sydney Hedley Waterlow (LIB)
Dunbartonshire	Archibald Orr-Ewing (CON)
Dundalk	Philip Callan (LIB)
Dundee	George Armitstead (LIB) Sir John Ogilvy, Bt (LIB)
Dungannon	Hon William Stuart Knox (CON)
Dungarvan	Henry Matthews (LIB)
Durham	John Henderson (LIB) John Robert Davison (LIB)
East Retford	George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundel, Viscount Galway (CON) Francis John Savile Foljambe (LIB)
East Riding, Yorkshire	Christopher Sykes (CON) William Henry Harrison-Broadley (CON)
Eastern Aberdeenshire	William Dingwall Fordyce (LIB)
Eastern Cheshire	Edward Christopher Egerton (CON) William John Legh (CON)
Eastern Cornwall	Sir John Salusbury Trelawny, Bt (LIB) Edward Brydges Willyams (LIB)
Eastern Cumberland	William Nicholson Hodgson (CON) Hon Charles Wentworth George Howard (LIB)
Eastern Derbyshire	Hon Francis Egerton (LIB) Hon Henry Strutt (LIB)
Eastern Devon	Sir Lawrence Palk, Bt (CON) Edward Baldwin Courtenay, Viscount Courtenay (CON)
Eastern Essex	James Round (CON) Sir Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise (CON)
Eastern Gloucestershire	Robert Stayner Holford (CON) Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, Bt (CON)
Eastern Kent	Edward Leigh Pemberton (CON) Hon George Watson Milles (CON)
Eastern Somerset	Ralph Shuttleworth Allen (CON) Richard Bright (CON)
Eastern Staffordshire	Michael Arthur Bass (LIB) John Robinson McClean (LIB)
Eastern Suffolk	Hon John Major Henniker-Major (CON) Frederick Snowdon Corrance (CON)
Eastern Surrey	Hon Peter John Locke King (LIB) Charles Buxton (LIB)
Eastern Sussex	John George Dodson (LIB) George Burrow Gregory (CON)
Eastern West Riding, Yorkshire	Christopher Beckett Denison (CON) Joshua Fielden (CON)
Eastern Worcestershire	Richard Paul Amphlett (CON) Hon Charles George Lyttelton (LIB)
Edinburgh	Duncan McLaren (LIB) John Miller (LIB)
Edinburgh & St Andrews Universities	Prof Lyon Playfair (LIB)
Edinburghshire	Sir Alexander Charles Ramsay-Gibson-Maitland, Bt (LIB)
Elgin District of Burghs	Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (LIB)
Elginshire & Nairnshire	Hon James Ogilvy-Grant (CON)
Ennis	William Stacpoole (LIB)
Enniskillen	John Henry Crichton, Viscount Crichton (CON)
Evesham	James Bourne (CON)
Exeter	John Duke Coleridge (LIB) Edgar Alfred Bowring (LIB)
Eye	George William Barrington, Viscount Barrington (CON)
Falkirk District of Burghs	James Merry (LIB)
Fermanagh County	Mervyn Edward Archdall (CON) Hon Henry Arthur Cole (CON)
Fife	Sir Robert Anstruther, Bt (LIB)
Finsbury	William Torrens McCullagh Torrens (LIB) Andrew Lusk (LIB)
Flint District of Boroughs	Sir John Hanmer, Bt (LIB)
Flintshire	Lord Richard de Aquila Grosvenor (LIB)
Forfarshire	Hon Charles Carnegie (LIB)
Frome	Thomas Hughes (LIB)
Galway	William Ulick Tristram St Lawrence, Viscount St Lawrence (LIB) Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Bt (LIB)
Galway County	Hubert George de Burgh-Canning, Viscount Burke (LIB) William Henry Gregory (LIB)
Gateshead	Rt Hon Sir William Hutt (LIB)
Glamorganshire	Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (LIB) Henry Hussey Vivian (LIB)
Glasgow	Robert Dalgleish (LIB) William Graham (LIB) George Anderson (LIB)
Gloucester	William Philip Price (LIB) Charles James Monk (LIB)
Grantham	Hon Frederick James Tollemache (LIB) Hugh Arthur Henry Cholmeley (LIB)
Gravesend	Sir Charles John Wingfield (LIB)
Great Grimsby	George Tomline (LIB/CON)
Great Marlow	Thomas Owen Wethered (CON)
Greenock	James Johnston Grieve (LIB)
Greenwich	David Salomons (LIB) Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone (LIB)
Guildford	Guildford James Hillier Onslow (LIB)
Hackney	Charles Reed (LIB) John Holms (LIB)
Haddington District of Burghs	Sir Henry Robert Ferguson Davie, bt (LIB)
Haddingtonshire	Hon Francis Richard Wemyss-Charteris-Douglas, Baron Elcho (CON)
Halifax	James Stansfield (LIB) Edward Ackroyd (LIB)
Harwich	Henry Jervis White Jervis (CON)
Hastings	Thomas Brassey (LIB) Frederick North (LIB)
Haverfordwest District of Boroughs	Hon William Edwardes (LIB)
Hawick District of Burghs	George Otto Trevelyan (LIB)
Helston	Adolphus William Young (LIB)
Hereford	George Clive (LIB) John William Shaw Wylie (LIB)
Herefordshire	Sir Herbert George Denman Croft, Bt (CON) Sir Joseph Russell Bailey, Bt (CON) Michael Biddulph (LIB)
Hertford	Robert Dimsdale (CON)
Hertfordshire	Hon Henry Frederick Cowper (LIB) Henry Robert Brand (LIB) Abel Smith (CON)
Horsham	John Aldridge (CON)
Huddersfield	Edward Aldam Leatham (LIB)
Huntingdon	Thomas Baring (CON)
Huntingdonshire	Edward Fellowes (CON) Rt Hon Lord Robert Montagu (CON)
Hythe	Baron Mayer Nathan de Rothschild (LIB)
Inverness District of Burghs	Æneas William Mackintosh (LIB)
Inverness-shire	Donald Cameron (CON)
Ipswich	Hugh Edward Adair (LIB) Henry Wyndham West (LIB)
Isle of Wight	Sir John Simeon, Bt (LIB)
Kendal	John Whitwell (LIB)
Kerry County	Rt Hon Valentine Augustus Browne, Viscount Castlerosse (LIB) Henry Arthur Herbert (LIB)
Kidderminster	Thomas Lea (LIB)
Kildare County	Rt Hon William Henry Ford Cogan (LIB) Lord Otho Augustus Fitzgerald (LIB)
Kilkenny City	Sir John Gray (LIB)
Kilkenny County	Hon Leopold George Frederick Agar-Ellis (LIB) George Leopold Bryan (LIB)
Kilmarnock District of Burghs	Rt Hon Edward Pleydell Bouverie (LIB)
Kincardineshire	James Dyce Nicol (LIB)
King's County	Sir Patrick O'Brien, Bt (LIB) David Sherlock (LIB)
King's Lynn	Rt Hon Edward Henry Smith Stanley, Baron Stanley (CON) Hon Robert Bourke (CON)
Kingston upon Hull	Charles Morgan Norwood (LIB) James Clay (LIB)
Kinsale	Sir George Conway Colthurst, Bt (LIB/CON)
Kirkcaldy District of Burghs	Roger Sinclair Aytoun (LIB)
Kirkcudbrightshire	Wellwood Herries Maxwell (LIB)
Knaresborough	Alfred Illingworth (LIB)
Lambeth	James Clarke Lawrence (LIB) William McArthur (LIB)
Launceston	Henry Charles Lopes (CON)
Leeds	Edward Baines (LIB) Robert Meek Carter (LIB) William St James Wheelhouse (CON)
Leicester	Peter Alfred Taylor (LIB) John Dove Harris (LIB)
Leith District of Burghs	Robert Andrew Macfie (LIB)
Leitrim County	William Richard Ormsby-Gore (CON) Dr John Brady (LIB)
Leominster	Richard Arkwright (CON)
Lewes	Walter John Pelham, Baron Pelham (LIB)
Lichfield	Richard Dyott (CON)
Limerick City	George Gavin (LIB) Francis William Russell (LIB)
Limerick County	Rt Hon William Monsell (LIB) Edward John Synan (LIB)
Lincoln	Charles Seely (LIB) John Hinde Palmer (LIB)
Linlithgowshire	Peter McLagan (LIB)
Lisburn	Edward Wingfield Verner (CON)
Liskeard	Sir Arthur William Buller (LIB)
Liverpool	Samuel Robert Graves (CON) Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, Viscount Sandon (CON) William Rathbone (CON)
London University	Rt Hon Robert Lowe (LIB)
Londonderry City	Richard Dowse (LIB)
Londonderry County	Robert Peel Dawson (CON) Sir Frederick William Heygate, Bt (CON)
Longford County	Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent (LIB) Myles William O'Reilly (LIB)
Louth County	Rt Hon Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue (LIB) Matthew O'Reilly Dease (LIB)
Ludlow	Hon George Herbert Windsor Windsor-Clive (CON)
Lymington	Lord George Charles Gordon-Lennox (CON)
Macclesfield	William Coare Brocklehurst (LIB) David Chadwick (LIB)
Maidstone	William Lee (LIB) James Whatman (LIB)
Maldon	Edward Hammond Bentall (LIB)
Mallow	Edward Sullivan (LIB)
Malmesbury	Walter Powell (CON)
Malton	Hon Charles William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (LIB)
Manchester	Hugh Birley (CON) Thomas Bazley (LIB) Jacob Bright (LIB)
Marlborough	Lord Ernest Augustus Charles Brudenell-Bruce (LIB)
Marylebone	John Harvey Lewis (LIB) Thomas Chambers (LIB)
Mayo County	George Bingham, Baron Bingham (CON) George Henry Moore (LIB)
Meath County	Matthew Elias Corbally (LIB) Edward Francis McEvoy (LIB)
Merionethshire	David Williams (LIB)
Merthyr Tydvil	Henry Richard (LIB) Richard Fothergill (LIB)
Mid Cheshire	Hon Wilbraham Egerton (CON) George Cornwall Legh (CON)
Mid Kent	William Hart Dyke (CON) William Archer Amherst, Viscount Holmesdale (CON)
Mid Lincolnshire	Weston Cracroft Amcotts (LIB) Henry Chaplin (CON)
Mid Somerset	Richard Horner Paget (CON) Ralph Neville Grenville (CON)
Mid Surrey	Henry William Peek (CON) Hon William Brodrick (CON)
Middlesbrough	Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow (LIB)
Middlesex	Lord George Francis Hamilton (CON) George Henry Charles Byng, Viscount Enfield (LIB)
Midhurst	William Townley Mitford (CON)
Monaghan County	Charles Powell Leslie (CON) Sewallis Evelyn Shirley (CON)
Monmouth District of Boroughs	Sir John William Ramsden, Bt (LIB)
Monmouthshire	Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan (CON) Poulett George Henry Somerset (CON)
Montgomery District of Boroughs	Hon Charles Douglas Richard Hanbury-Tracy (LIB)
Montgomeryshire	Charles Watkin Williams Wynn (CON)
Montrose District of Burghs	William Edward Baxter (LIB)
Morpeth	Rt Hon Sir George Grey, Bt (LIB)
New Radnor District of Boroughs	Richard Green Price (LIB)
New Ross	Patrick McMahon (LIB)
Newark-on-Trent	Grosvenor Hodgkinson (LIB) Edward Denison (LIB)
Newcastle upon Tyne	Joseph Cowen (LIB) Rt Hon Thomas Emerson Headlam (LIB)
Newcastle-under-Lyme	Edmund Buckley (CON) William Shepherd Allen (LIB)
Newport	Charles Wykeham Martin (LIB)
Newry	William Kirk (LIB)
North Eastern Lancashire	James Maden Holt (CON) John Pierce Chamberlain Starkie (CON)
North Riding, Yorkshire	Hon Octavius Duncombe (CON) Frederick Acclom Milbank (LIB)
Northallerton	John Hutton (CON)
Northampton	Charles Gilpin (LIB) Anthony Henley Henley, Baron Henley (LIB)
Northern Ayrshire	William Finnie (LIB)
Northern Derbyshire	Lord George Henry Cavendish (LIB) Augustus Peter Arkwright (CON)
Northern Devon	Rt Hon Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Bt (CON) Thomas Dyke Acland (LIB)
Northern Durham	George Elliot (CON) Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bt (LIB)
Northern Hampshire	William Withey Bramston Beach (CON) George Sclater Booth (CON)
Northern Lanarkshire	Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke, Bt (LIB)
Northern Lancashire	Hon Frederick Arthur Stanley (CON) Rt Hon John Wilson Patten (CON)
Northern Leicestershire	Lord John James Robert Manners (CON) Samuel William Clowes (CON)
Northern Lincolnshire	Sir Montagu John Cholmeley, Bt (LIB) Rowland Winn (CON)
Northern Norfolk	Hon Frederick Walpole (CON) Sir Edmund Henry Knowles Lacon, Bt (CON)
Northern Northamptonshire	Rt Hon George Ward Hunt (CON) Sackville George Stopford (CON)
Northern Northumberland	Henry George Percy, Earl Percy (CON) Matthew White Ridley (CON)
Northern Nottinghamshire	Rt Hon John Evelyn Denison (Speaker) Frederick Chatfield Smith (CON)
Northern Shropshire	John Ralph Ormsby-Gore (CON) George Cecil Orlando Bridgeman, Viscount Newport (CON)
Northern Staffordshire	Rt Hon Charles Bowyer Adderley (CON) Sir Edward Manningham-Buller, Bt (LIB)
Northern Warwickshire	Charles Newdigate Newdegate (CON) William Bromley Davenport (CON)
Northern West Riding, Yorkshire	Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish (LIB) Sir Francis Crossley, Bt (LIB)
Northern Wiltshire	Sir George Samuel Jenkinson, Bt (CON) Lord Charles William Brudenell-Bruce (LIB)
Norwich	Sir Henry Josias Stracey, Bt (CON) Sir William Russell, Bt (LIB)
Nottingham	Sir Robert Juckes Clifton, Bt (Ind LIB) Charles Ichabod Wright (CON)
Oldham	John Tomlinson Hibbert (LIB) John Platt (LIB)
Orkney & Shetland	Frederick Dundas (LIB)
Oxford	Rt Hon Edward Cardwell (LIB) William George Granville Venables Vernon-Harcourt (LIB)
Oxford University	Rt Hon Gathorne Hardy (CON) Rt Hon John Robert Mowbray (CON)
Oxfordshire	Rt Hon Joseph Warner Henley (CON) John Sidney North (CON) William Cornwallis Cartwright (LIB)
Paisley	Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing (LIB)
Peeblesshire & Selkirkshire	Sir Graham Graham-Montgomery, Bt (CON)
Pembroke District of Boroughs	Thomas Charles Meyrick (CON)
Pembrokeshire	John Henry Scourfield (CON)
Penryn & Falmouth	Robert Nicholas Fowler (CON) Prof Edward Backhouse Eastwick (CON)
Perth	Hon Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird (LIB)
Perthshire	Charles Stuart Parker (LIB)
Peterborough	William Wells (LIB) George Hammond Whalley (LIB)
Petersfield	William Nicholson (LIB)
Plymouth	Sir Robert Porrett Collier (LIB) Walter Morrison (LIB)
Pontefract	Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (LIB) Samuel Waterhouse (CON)
Poole	Arthur Edward Guest (CON)
Portarlington	Lionel Seymour William Dawson-Damer (CON)
Portsmouth	Sir James Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone, bt (CON) William Henry Stone (LIB)
Preston	Edward Hermon (CON) Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, Bt (CON)
Queen's County	Rt Hon John Wilson Fitzpatrick (LIB) Kenelm Thomas Digby (LIB)
Radnorshire	Hon Arthur Walsh (CON)
Reading	Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid, Bt (LIB) George John Shaw-Lefevre (LIB)
Renfrewshire	Archibald Alexander Speirs (LIB)
Richmond	Sir Roundell Palmer (LIB)
Ripon	Lord John Hay (LIB)
Rochdale	Thomas Bayley Potter (LIB)
Rochester	Philip Wykeham Martin (LIB) John Alexander Kinglake (LIB)
Roscommon County	Fitzstephen French (LIB) Charles Owen O'Conor, The O'Conor Don (LIB)
Ross & Cromarty	Alexander Matheson (LIB)
Roxburghshire	Sir William Scott, Bt (LIB)
Rutlandshire	George Henry Finch (CON) Hon Gerard James Noel (CON)
Rye	John Stewart Hardy (CON)
Salford	Charles Edward Cawley (CON) William Thomas Charley (CON)
Salisbury	Dr John Alfred Lush (LIB) Edward William Terreck Hamilton (LIB)
Sandwich	Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen (LIB) Henry Arthur Brassey (LIB)
Scarborough	Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, bt (LIB) John Dent Dent (LIB)
Shaftesbury	George Grenfell Glyn (LIB)
Sheffield	George Hadfield (LIB) Anthony John Mundella (LIB)
Shoreham	Stephen Cave (CON) Sir Percy Burrell, Bt (CON)
Shrewsbury	William James Clement (LIB) James Figgins (CON)
Sligo	Laurence Edward Knox (CON)
Sligo County	Denis Maurice O'Conor (LIB) Sir Robert Gore-Booth, Bt (CON)
South Eastern Lancashire	Hon Algernon Fulke Egerton (CON) John Snowdon Henry (CON)
South Shields	James Cochran Stevenson (LIB)
South Western Lancashire	Richard Assheton Cross (CON) Charles Turner (CON)
Southampton	Rt Hon Russell Gurney (CON) Peter Merrick Hoare (CON)
Southern Ayrshire	Sir David Wedderburn, Bt (LIB)
Southern Derbyshire	Rowland Smith (CON) Sir Thomas Gresley, Bt (CON)
Southern Devon	Sir Massey Lopes, bt (CON) Samuel Trehawke Kekewich (CON)
Southern Durham	Joseph Whitwell Pease (LIB) Frederick Edward Blackett Beaumont (LIB)
Southern Essex	Richard Baker Wingfield Baker (LIB) Andrew Johnston (LIB)
Southern Hampshire	Rt Hon William Francis Cowper (LIB) Lord Henry John Montagu-Douglas-Scott (CON)
Southern Lanarkshire	John Glencairn Carter Hamilton (LIB)
Southern Leicestershire	George Augustus Frederick Louis Howe, Viscount Curzon (CON) Albert Pell (CON)
Southern Lincolnshire	William Earle Welby (CON) Edmund Turnor (CON)
Southern Norfolk	Clare Sewell Read (CON) Edward Howes (CON)
Southern Northamptonshire	Sir Rainald Knightley, Bt (CON) Fairfax William Cartwright (CON)
Southern Northumberland	Wentworth Blackett Beaumont (LIB) Hon Henry George Liddell (CON)
Southern Nottinghamshire	William Hodgson Barrow (CON) Thomas Blackburne Thornton Hildyard (CON)
Southern Shropshire	Hon Percy Egerton Herbert (CON) Edward Corbett (CON)
Southern Warwickshire	Henry Christopher Wise (CON) John Hardy (CON)
Southern West Riding, Yorkshire	William Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton (LIB) Henry Frederick Beaumont (LIB)
Southern Wiltshire	Lord Henry Frederick Thynne (CON) Thomas Fraser Grove (LIB)
Southwark	John Locke (LIB) Austen Henry Layard (LIB)
St Andrews District of Burghs	Edward Ellice (LIB)
St Ives	Charles Magniac (LIB)
Stafford	Henry Davis Pochin (LIB) Walter Meller (CON)
Stalybridge	James Sidebottom (CON)
Stamford	Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay, Bt (CON)
Stirling District of Burghs	Henry Campbell (LIB)
Stirlingshire	John Elphinstone Erskine (LIB)
Stockport	William Tipping (CON) John Benjamin Smith (LIB)
Stockton-on-Tees	Joseph Dodds (LIB)
Stoke-on-Trent	George Melly (LIB) William Sargeant Roden (LIB)
Stroud	Sebastian Stewart Dickinson (LIB) Henry Selfe Page Winterbotham (LIB)
Sunderland	John Candlish (LIB) Edward Temperley Gourley (LIB)
Sutherland	Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (LIB)
Swansea District of Boroughs	Lewis Llewellyn Dillwyn (LIB)
Tamworth	Sir Robert Peel, bt (LIB) Sir William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer (LIB)
Taunton	Alexander Charles Barclay (LIB) Edward William Cox (CON)
Tavistock	Arthur John Edward Russell (LIB)
Tewkesbury	William Edwin Price (LIB)
The Hartlepools	Ralph Ward-Jackson (CON)
Thirsk	Sir William Payne Gallwey, Bt (CON)
Tipperary County	Charles Moore (LIB) Hon Charles William White (LIB)
Tiverton	John Heathcoat Heathcoat-Amory (LIB) Hon George Denman (LIB)
Tower Hamlets	Acton Smee Ayrton (LIB) Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda (LIB)
Tralee	Daniel O'Donoghue, The O'Donoghue (LIB)
Truro	Frederick Martin Williams (CON) Hon John Cranch Walker Vivian (LIB)
Tynemouth & North Shields	Thomas Eustace Smith (LIB)
Tyrone County	Rt Hon Henry Thomas Lowry Corry (CON) Rt Hon Lord Claude Hamilton (CON)
Wakefield	Somerset Archibald Beaumont (LIB)
Wallingford	Stanley Vickers (CON)
Walsall	Charles Forster (LIB)
Wareham	John Hales Montagu Calcraft (LIB)
Warrington	Peter Rylands (LIB)
Warwick	Arthur Wellesley Peel (LIB) Edward Greaves (CON)
Waterford City	John Aloysius Blake (LIB) James Delahunty (LIB)
Waterford County	John Esmonde (LIB) Edmond de la Poer (LIB)
Wednesbury	Alexander Brogden (LIB)
Wenlock	Alexander Hargreaves Brown (LIB) Rt Hon George Cecil Weld Weld-Forester (CON)
Westbury	John Lewis Phipps (CON)
Western Aberdeenshire	William McCombie (LIB)
Western Cheshire	Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bt (CON) John Tollemache (CON)
Western Cornwall	John St Aubyn (LIB) Arthur Pendarves Vivian (LIB)
Western Cumberland	Henry Lowther (CON) Hon Percy Scawen Wyndham (CON)
Western Essex	Lord Eustace Henry Brownlow Gascoyne-Cecil (CON) Henry John Selwyn-Ibbetson (CON)
Western Gloucestershire	Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (LIB) Samuel Stephens Marling (LIB)
Western Kent	Charles Henry Mills (CON) John Gilbert Talbot (CON)
Western Norfolk	Sir William Bagge, Bt (CON) Hon Thomas de Grey (CON)
Western Somerset	Hon Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson Hood (CON) William Henry Powell Gore-Langton (CON)
Western Staffordshire	Smith Child (CON) Hugo Francis Meynell-Ingram (CON)
Western Suffolk	William Windsor Parker (CON) Lord Augustus Henry Charles Hervey (CON)
Western Surrey	George Cubitt (CON) John Ivatt Briscoe (LIB)
Western Sussex	Hon Henry Wyndham (CON) Walter Barttelot Barttelot (CON)
Western Worcestershire	Frederic Winn Knight (CON) William Edward Dowdeswell (CON)
Westmeath County	William Pollard Urquhart (LIB) Hon Algernon William Fulke Greville-Nugent (LIB)
Westminster	William Henry Smith (CON) Hon Robert Wellesley Grosvenor (LIB)
Westmorland	Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective (CON) William Lowther (CON)
Wexford	Richard Joseph Devereux (LIB)
Wexford County	John Talbot Power (LIB) Matthew Peter D'Arcy (LIB)
Weymouth & Melcombe Regis	Charles Joseph Theophilus Hambro (CON) Henry Edwards (LIB)
Whitby	William Henry Gladstone (LIB)
Whitehaven	George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (CON)
Wick District of Burghs	George Loch (LIB)
Wicklow County	William Wentworth Fitzwilliam Dick (CON) Hon William Henry Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (LIB)
Wigan	Henry Woods (LIB) John Lancaster (LIB)
Wigtown District of Burghs	George Young (LIB)
Wigtownshire	Alan Plantagenet Stewart, Baron Garlies (CON)
Wilton	Edmund Antrobus (LIB)
Winchester	William Barrow Simonds (CON) John Bonham Carter (LIB)
Windsor	Roger Eykyn (LIB)
Wolverhampton	Rt Hon Charles Pelham Villiers (LIB) Thomas Matthias Weguelin (LIB)
Woodstock	Henry Barnett (CON)
Worcester	William Laslett (CON) Alexander Clunes Sheriff (LIB)
Wycombe	Hon William Henry Peregrine Carington (LIB)
York	James Lowther (CON) Joshua Proctor Brown Westhead (LIB)
Youghal	Christopher Weguelin (LIB)

Date Parliament Summoned: 10 December 1868

By-Elections
21 December 1868	Birmingham	John Bright (LIB)
21 December 1868	Bradford	Rt Hon William Edward Forster (LIB)
21 December 1868	City of London	Rt Hon George Joachim Goschen (LIB)
21 December 1868	Exeter	Sir John Duke Coleridge (LIB)
21 December 1868	Greenwich	Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone (LIB)
21 December 1868	Halifax	James Stansfield (LIB)
21 December 1868	London University	Rt Hon Robert Lowe (LIB)
21 December 1868	Plymouth	Sir Robert Porrett Collier (LIB)
21 December 1868	Pontefract	Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (LIB)
21 December 1868	Ripon	Lord John Hay (LIB)
21 December 1868	Southwark	Austen Henry Layard (LIB)
21 December 1868	Truro	Hon John Cranch Walker Vivian (LIB)
22 December 1868	Oxford	Rt Hon Edward Cardwell (LIB)
23 December 1868	Wareham	John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax (CON)
29 December 1868	Aberdeen & Glasgow Universities	Rt Hon James Moncrieff (LIB)
4 January 1869	Hawick District of Burghs	George Otto Trevelyan (LIB)
4 January 1869	Mallow	Edward Sullivan (LIB)
4 January 1869	Wigtown District of Burghs	George Young (LIB)
5 January 1869	Clare County	Sir Colman Michael O'Loghlen, Bt (LIB)
6 January 1869	Clackmannanshire & Kinross-shire	William Patrick Adam (LIB)
7 January 1869	Kerry County	Rt Hon Valentine Augustus Browne, Viscount Castlerosse (LIB)
7 January 1869	Westmeath County	Hon Algernon William Fulke Greville-Nugent (LIB)
11 January 1869	Kildare County	Rt Hon Lord Otho Augustus Fitzgerald (LIB)
11 January 1869	Louth County	Rt Hon Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue (LIB)
16 January 1869	Southern Derbyshire	Henry Wilmot (CON)
25 January 1869	Renfrewshire	Rt Hon Henry Austin Bruce (LIB)
22 February 1869	City of London	Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (LIB)
25 February 1869	New Radnor District of Boroughs	Rt Hon Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington (LIB)
26 February 1869	Wexford	Richard Joseph Devereux (LIB)
27 February 1869	Westbury	Charles Paul Phipps (CON)
11 March 1869	Bewdley	John Cunliffe Pickersgill Cunliffe (CON)
12 March 1869	Bradford	Edward Miall (LIB)
12 March 1869	Scarborough	Sir Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, bt (LIB)
15 March 1869	Drogheda	Thomas Whitworth (LIB)
30 March 1869	Blackburn	Edward Kenworthy Hornby (CON) Henry Master Feilden (CON)
30 March 1869	Hereford	Edward Henry Clive (LIB) Chandos Wren-Hoskyns (LIB)
31 March 1869	Dumfriesshire	George Gustavus Walker (CON)
17 April 1869	Western Sussex	Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March (CON)
24 April 1869	Brecon	Edward Hyde Villiers, Baron Hyde (LIB)
11 May 1869	Liskeard	Rt Hon Edward Horsman (LIB)
11 May 1869	Youghal	Montague John Guest (LIB)
7 June 1869	Stafford	Thomas Salt (CON) Hon Reginald Arthur James Talbot (CON)
16 June 1869	Nottingham	Charles Seely (LIB)
5 August 1869	Salisbury	Alfred Seymour (LIB)
21 August 1869	Antrim County	Hugh de Gray Seymour (CON)
26 August 1869	Caithness	Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, Bt (Ind LIB)
6 October 1869	Eastern Cheshire	William Cunliffe Brooks (CON)
8 November 1869	Tower Hamlets	Acton Smee Ayrton (LIB)
18 November 1869	Hastings	Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth (LIB)
18 November 1869	Whitby	William Henry Gladstone (LIB)
22 November 1869	Aberdeen & Glasgow Universities	Edward Strathearn Gordon (CON)
22 November 1869	Waterford City	Sir Henry Winston Barron, Bt (LIB)
27 November 1869	Tipperary County	Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (Ind N)
4 December 1869	Chester	Hon Norman de L'Aigle Grosvenor (LIB)
9 December 1869	King's Lynn	Lord Claud John Hamilton (CON)
31 December 1869	Longford County	Hon Reginald James Macartney Greville-Nugent (LIB)
4 January 1870	Queen's County	Edmund Dease (LIB)
17 January 1870	Merionethshire	Samuel Holland (LIB)
3 February 1870	Mallow	Henry Munster (LIB)
14 February 1870	Dublin University	Hon David Robert Plunket (CON)
15 February 1870	Londonderry City	Richard Dowse (LIB)
16 February 1870	Bridgnorth	William Henry Foster (LIB)
17 February 1870	Southwark	Marcus Beresford (CON)
24 February 1870	Nottingham	Prof Hon Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert (LIB)
25 February 1870	Maidstone	Sir John Lubbock, Bt (LIB)
25 February 1870	Waterford City	Ralph Bernal Osborne (LIB)
28 February 1870	Tipperary County	Denis Caulfield Heron (LIB)
2 March 1870	Roxburghshire	James Henry Robert Ker, Marquess of Bowmont (LIB)
29 March 1870	Bristol	Elisha Smith Robinson (LIB)
1 April 1870	Newark-on-Trent	Samuel Boteler Bristowe (LIB)
9 April 1870	Eastern Devon	John Henry Kennaway (CON)
10 May 1870	Mallow	George Waters (LIB)
12 May 1870	Mayo County	George Eakins Browne (LIB)
16 May 1870	Longford County	Hon George Frederick Greville-Nugent (CON)
1 June 1870	Eastern Suffolk	Arthur Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon (CON)
13 June 1870	Isle of Wight	Alexander Dundas Wishart Ross Baillie-Cochrane (CON)
13 June 1870	Southern Leicestershire	William Unwin Heygate (CON)
27 June 1870	Bristol	Kirkham Daniel Hodgson (LIB)
13 July 1870	Norwich	Jacob Henry Tillett (LIB)
19 July 1870	Brecon	James Price William Gwynne-Holford (CON)
19 July 1870	Rochester	Julian Goldsmid (LIB)
15 August 1870	Plymouth	Sir Robert Porrett Collier (LIB)
18 August 1870	Dublin City	Sir Dominic John Corrigan, Bt (LIB)
8 September 1870	Western Surrey	Lee Steere (CON)
21 September 1870	Shrewsbury	Douglas Straight (CON)
17 October 1870	Mid Surrey	Sir Richard Baggallay (CON)
3 November 1870	Colchester	Alexander Learmonth (CON)
23 November 1870	Newport	Charles Cavendish Clifford (LIB)
14 January 1871	Durham	Rt Hon John Robert Davison (LIB)
17 January 1871	Meath County	John Martin (HR)
23 January 1871	Newry	Francis Charles Needham, Viscount Newry (CON)
28 January 1871	Limerick County	Rt Hon William Monsell (LIB)
8 February 1871	Western Norfolk	George William Pierrepont Bentinck (CON)
14 February 1871	York	George Leeman (LIB)
15 February 1871	Ripon	Sir Henry Knight Storks (LIB)
21 February 1871	Galway County	Mitchell Henry (HR)
21 February 1871	Westmorland	Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective (CON)
22 February 1871	Norwich	Jeremiah James Colman (LIB)
28 February 1871	Hereford	George Arbuthnot (CON)
1 March 1871	Stalybridge	Nathaniel Buckley (LIB)
4 March 1871	Monmouthshire	Lord Henry Richard Charles Somerset (CON)
28 March 1871	Tamworth	John Peel (LIB)
17 April 1871	Southern Norfolk	Sir Robert Jacob Buxton, Bt (CON)
28 April 1871	Durham	John Lloyd Wharton (CON)
13 May 1871	Halifax	Rt Hon James Stansfield (LIB)
13 June 1871	Western Staffordshire	Francis Monckton (CON)
17 June 1871	Westmeath County	Patrick James Smyth (HR)
22 July 1871	Monaghan County	John Leslie (CON)
26 August 1871	Eastern Surrey	James Watney (CON)
13 September 1871	Truro	James Macnaghten Hogg (CON)
20 September 1871	Limerick City	Isaac Butt (HR)
22 November 1871	Plymouth	Edward Bates (CON)
25 November 1871	Dover	Sir George Jessel (LIB)
3 February 1872	Northern West Riding, Yorkshire	Francis Sharp Powell (CON)
6 February 1872	Kerry County	Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett (HR)
8 February 1872	Galway County	John Philip Nolan (HR)
16 February 1872	Forfarshire	James William Barclay (LIB)
17 February 1872	Western Cheshire	Wilbraham Frederick Tollemache (CON)
26 February 1872	Northern Nottinghamshire	Hon George Edmund Milnes Monckton-Arundell (CON)
28 February 1872	Wick District of Burghs	John Pender (LIB)
2 March 1872	Flintshire	Lord Richard de Aquila Grosvenor (LIB)
9 March 1872	Wallingford	Edward Wells (CON)
11 March 1872	Eastern Gloucestershire	John Reginald Yorke (CON)
26 March 1872	Western Cumberland	Josslyn Francis Pennington, Baron Muncaster (CON)
16 April 1872	Tamworth	Robert William Hanbury (CON)
26 April 1872	Wexford	William Archer Redmond (HR)
5 June 1872	Oldham	John Morgan Cobbett (CON)
7 June 1872	Mallow	William Felix Laurence Austin Munster (LIB)
27 June 1872	Bedfordshire	Francis Bassett (LIB)
29 June 1872	Aberdeen	John Farley Leith (LIB)
8 July 1872	Southern West Riding, Yorkshire	Walter Thomas William Spencer Stanhope (CON)
17 August 1872	Pontefract	Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (LIB)
16 September 1872	Preston	John Holker (CON)
16 October 1872	Flint District of Boroughs	Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe, Bt (LIB)
6 November 1872	Tiverton	William Nathaniel Massey (LIB)
7 November 1872	Richmond	Lawrence Dundas (LIB)
22 November 1872	Londonderry City	Charles Edward Lewis (CON)
10 December 1872	Cork City	Joseph Philip Ronayne (HR)
10 December 1872	Kincardineshire	Sir George Balfour (LIB)
11 January 1873	Orkney & Shetland	Samuel Laing (LIB)
10 February 1873	Liverpool	John Torr (CON)
15 February 1873	Armagh County	Edward Wingfield Verner (CON)
19 February 1873	Lisburn	Sir Richard Wallace, Bt (CON)
24 February 1873	Wigtownshire	Robert Vans-Agnew (CON)
10 March 1873	Mid Cheshire	Egerton Leigh (CON)
16 April 1873	Tyrone County	Hon Henry William Lowry Corry (CON)
7 May 1873	Bath	George Henry Cadogan, Viscount Chelsea (CON)
8 May 1873	Gloucester	William Killigrew Wait (CON)
27 May 1873	Richmond	Hon John Charles Dundas (LIB)
17 June 1873	Southern Devon	John Carpenter Garnier (CON)
24 June 1873	Roscommon County	Hon Charles French (LIB)
28 June 1873	Bath	Arthur Edward Holland Grey Egerton, Viscount Grey de Wilton (CON)
30 June 1873	Berwickshire	William Miller (LIB)
5 July 1873	Waterford County	Hon Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart (LIB)
4 August 1873	Greenwich	Thomas William Boord (CON)
7 August 1873	Dundee	James Yeaman (LIB)
8 August 1873	Eastern Staffordshire	Samuel Charles Allsopp (CON)
27 August 1873	Northern West Riding, Yorkshire	Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish (LIB)
30 August 1873	Shaftesbury	Vere Fane Benett-Stanford (CON)
13 September 1873	Renfrewshire	Archibald Campbell Campbell (CON)
23 September 1873	Dover	Edward William Barnett (CON)
9 October 1873	Bath	Arthur Divett Hayter (LIB)
14 October 1873	Taunton	Henry James (LIB)
20 October 1873	Birmingham	John Bright (LIB)
24 October 1873	Kingston upon Hull	Joseph Walker Pease (CON)
26 November 1873	Haverfordwest District of Boroughs	Hon William Edwardes, Baron Kensington (LIB)
4 December 1873	Edinburgh & St Andrews Universities	Prof Lyon Playfair (LIB)
6 December 1873	Oxford	Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon-Harcourt (LIB)
11 December 1873	Exeter	Arthur Mills (CON)
20 December 1873	Huntingdon	Sir John Burgess Karslake (CON)
3 January 1874	Cambridgeshire	Hon Eliot Constantine Yorke (CON)
8 January 1874	Stroud	John Edward Dorington (CON)
12 January 1874	Western Somerset	Vaughan Hanning Lee (CON)
17 January 1874	Newcastle upon Tyne	Joseph Cowen (LIB)

Petitions Resulting in New MP(s)
8 March 1869	Taunton	Henry James (LIB)
30 April 1869	Bewdley	Hon Augustus Henry Archibald Anson (LIB)
13 June 1872	Galway County	Hon William le Poer-Trench (CON)

Date Parliament Dissolved: 26 January 1874

Reason for Dissolution: Request by the Prime Minister (William Gladstone) on Parliament nearing the end of its statutory term of seven years