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Constituencies and MPs

< General Election - February 1874 >

Westminster Elections

MPs by Constituency

Candidates by %age of Vote

MPs by Return Date

Data Last Updated: 26 October 2023
Application Last Updated: 6 September 2022
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Summary
CON	350
LIB	239
HR	60
LIB/LAB	2
Ind LIB	1

Aberdeen	John Farley Leith (LIB)
Aberdeen & Glasgow Universities	Edward Strathearn Gordon (CON)
Abingdon	John Creemer Clarke (LIB)
Andover	Henry Wellesley (CON)
Anglesea	Richard Davies (LIB)
Antrim County	James Chaine (CON) Hon Edward O'Neill (CON)
Argyll	John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne (LIB)
Armagh City	John Vance (CON)
Armagh County	Edward Wingfield Verner (CON) Maxwell Charles Close (CON)
Ashton-under-Lyne	Thomas Walton Mellor (CON)
Athlone	Edward Sheil (HR)
Aylesbury	Nathaniel Mayer de Rothschild (LIB) Samuel George Smith (CON)
Ayr District of Burghs	Sir William James Montgomery Cunninghame, Bt (CON)
Banbury	Bernhard Samuelson (LIB)
Bandon	Alexander Swanston (LIB)
Banffshire	Robert William Duff (LIB)
Barnstaple	Thomas Cave (LIB) Samuel Danks Waddy (LIB)
Bath	Arthur Divett Hayter (LIB) Nathaniel George Philips Bousfield (CON)
Beaumaris District of Boroughs	Morgan Lloyd (LIB)
Bedford	Samuel Whitbread (LIB) Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner (CON)
Bedfordshire	Richard Thomas Gilpin (CON) Francis Bassett (LIB)
Belfast	James Porter Corry (CON) William Johnston (CON)
Berkshire	Richard Benyon (CON) Robert James Loyd-Lindsay (CON) John Walter (LIB)
Berwick-upon-Tweed	Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, Bt (LIB) David Milne Home (CON)
Berwickshire	Hon Robert Baillie-Hamilton (CON)
Bewdley	Charles Harrison (LIB)
Birkenhead	John Laird (CON)
Birmingham	George Dixon (LIB) Philip Henry Muntz (LIB) Rt Hon John Bright (LIB)
Blackburn	Henry Master Feilden (CON) William Edward Briggs (LIB)
Bodmin	Hon Edward Frederic Leveson-Gower (LIB)
Bolton	John Hick (CON) John Kynaston Cross (LIB)
Boston	William James Ingram (LIB) Thomas Parry (LIB)
Bradford	Rt Hon William Edward Forster (LIB) Henry William Ripley (CON)
Brecknockshire	Hon Godfrey Charles Morgan (CON)
Brecon	James Price William Gwynne-Holford (CON)
Bridgnorth	William Henry Foster (LIB)
Bridport	Thomas Alexander Mitchell (LIB)
Brighton	James Lloyd Ashbury (CON) Charles Cameron Shute (CON)
Bristol	Kirkham Daniel Hodgson (LIB) Samuel Morley (LIB)
Buckingham	Egerton Hubbard (CON)
Buckinghamshire	Rt Hon Benjamin Disraeli (CON) Sir Robert Bateson Harvey, Bt (CON) Nathaniel Grace Lambert (LIB)
Burnley	Richard Shaw (LIB)
Bury	Robert Needham Philips (LIB)
Bury St Edmunds	Edward Greene (CON) Lord Francis Hervey (CON)
Bute	Charles Dalrymple (CON)
Caithness	Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, Bt (LIB)
Calne	Lord Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice (LIB)
Cambridge	Alfred George Marten (CON) Patrick Boyle Smollett (CON)
Cambridge University	Rt Hon Spencer Horatio Walpole (CON) Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope (CON)
Cambridgeshire	Lord George John Manners (CON) Rt Hon Henry Bouverie William Brand (LIB) Hon Eliot Constantine Yorke (CON)
Canterbury	Henry Alexander Munro Butler-Johnstone (CON) Lewis Ashurst Majendie (CON)
Cardiff District of Boroughs	James Frederick Dudley Crichton-Stuart (LIB)
Cardigan District of Boroughs	David Davies (LIB)
Cardiganshire	Thomas Edward Lloyd (CON)
Carlisle	Robert Ferguson (LIB) Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bt (LIB)
Carlow	Henry Owen Lewis (HR)
Carlow County	Henry Bruen (CON) Arthur McMurrough Kavanagh (CON)
Carmarthen District of Boroughs	Charles William Nevill (CON)
Carmarthenshire	Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, Viscount Emlyn (CON) John Jones (CON)
Carnarvon District of Boroughs	William Bulkeley Hughes (LIB)
Carnarvonshire	Hon George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant (CON)
Carrickfergus	Marriott Robert Dalway (CON)
Cavan County	Charles Joseph Fay (HR) Joseph Gillis Biggar (HR)
Chatham	George Elliot (CON)
Chelsea	Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bt (LIB) William Gordon (CON)
Cheltenham	James Tynte Agg-Gardner (CON)
Chester	Henry Cecil Raikes (CON) Rt Hon John George Dodson (LIB)
Chichester	Lord Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox (CON)
Chippenham	Gabriel Goldney (CON)
Christchurch	Sir Henry Drummond Wolff (CON)
Cirencester	Allen Alexander Bathurst (CON)
City of London	William James Richmond Cotton (CON) Philip Twells (CON) Rt Hon John Gellibrand Hubbard (CON) Rt Hon George Joachim Goschen (LIB)
Clackmannanshire & Kinross-shire	Rt Hon William Patrick Adam (LIB)
Clare County	Rt Hon Sir Colman Michael O'Loghlen, Bt (HR) Lord Francis Nathaniel Conyngham (HR)
Clitheroe	Ralph Assheton (CON)
Clonmel	Arthur John Moore (HR)
Cockermouth	Isaac Fletcher (LIB)
Colchester	Alexander Learmonth (CON) Herbert Bulkeley Mackworth Praed (CON)
Coleraine	Daniel Taylor (LIB)
Cork City	Joseph Philip Ronayne (HR) Nicholas Daniel Murphy (HR)
Cork County	McCarthy Downing (HR) William Shaw (HR)
Coventry	Henry William Eaton (CON) Henry Mather Jackson (LIB)
Cricklade	Sir Daniel Gooch, Bt (CON) Ambrose Lethbridge Goddard (CON)
Darlington	Edmund Backhouse (LIB)
Denbigh District of Boroughs	Charles James Watkin Williams (LIB)
Denbighshire	George Osborne Morgan (LIB) Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bt (CON)
Derby	Michael Thomas Bass (LIB) Samuel Plimsoll (LIB)
Devizes	Sir Thomas Bateson, Bt (CON)
Devonport	John Henry Puleston (CON) George Edward Price (CON)
Dewsbury	John Simon (LIB)
Donegal County	James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton (CON) Thomas Connolly (CON)
Dorchester	William Ernest Brymer (CON)
Dorset	Hon William Henry Berkeley Portman (LIB) Henry Gerard Sturt (CON) John Floyer (CON)
Dover	Charles Kaye Freshfield (CON) Alexander George Dickson (CON)
Down County	Lord Arthur Edwin Hill-Trevor (CON) James Sharman Crawford (LIB)
Downpatrick	John Mulholland (CON)
Drogheda	Dr William Hagarty O'Leary (HR)
Droitwich	John Corbett (LIB)
Dublin City	Sir Arthur Edward Guinness, Bt (CON) Maurice Brooks (HR)
Dublin County	Rt Hon Thomas Edward Taylor (CON) Ion Trant Hamilton (CON)
Dublin University	Rt Hon John Thomas Ball (CON) Hon David Robert Plunket (CON)
Dudley	Henry Brinsley Sheridan (LIB)
Dumfries District of Burghs	Ernest Noel (LIB)
Dumfriesshire	John James Hope Johnstone (CON)
Dunbartonshire	Archibald Orr-Ewing (CON)
Dundalk	Philip Callan (HR)
Dundee	James Yeaman (LIB) John Edward Jenkins (LIB)
Dungannon	Thomas Alexander Dickson (LIB)
Dungarvan	John O'Keeffe (HR)
Durham	Thomas Charles Thompson (LIB) John Henderson (LIB)
East Retford	George Edward Arundell Monckton-Arundel, Viscount Galway (CON) Francis John Savile Foljambe (LIB)
East Riding, Yorkshire	William Henry Harrison-Broadley (CON) Christopher Sykes (CON)
Eastern Aberdeenshire	William Dingwall Fordyce (LIB)
Eastern Cheshire	William John Legh (CON) William Cunliffe Brooks (CON)
Eastern Cornwall	Sir Colman Rashleigh, Bt (LIB) John Tremayne (CON)
Eastern Cumberland	Hon Charles Wentworth George Howard (LIB) William Nicholson Hodgson (CON)
Eastern Derbyshire	Hon Francis Egerton (LIB) Francis Arkwright (CON)
Eastern Devon	Sir Lawrence Palk, Bt (CON) Sir John Henry Kennaway, Bt (CON)
Eastern Essex	James Round (CON) Sir Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise (CON)
Eastern Gloucestershire	Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, Bt (CON) John Reginald Yorke (CON)
Eastern Kent	Hon George Watson Milles (CON) Edward Leigh Pemberton (CON)
Eastern Somerset	Ralph Shuttleworth Allen (CON) Richard Bright (CON)
Eastern Staffordshire	Michael Arthur Bass (LIB) Samuel Charles Allsopp (CON)
Eastern Suffolk	Frederick William Brook Thellusson, Baron Rendlesham (CON) Arthur Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon (CON)
Eastern Surrey	James Watney (CON) William Grantham (CON)
Eastern Sussex	George Burrow Gregory (CON) Montagu David Scott (CON)
Eastern West Riding, Yorkshire	Christopher Beckett Denison (CON) Joshua Fielden (CON)
Eastern Worcestershire	Henry Allsopp (CON) Thomas Eades Walker (CON)
Edinburgh	Duncan McLaren (LIB) James Cowan (LIB)
Edinburgh & St Andrews Universities	Rt Hon Prof Lyon Playfair (LIB)
Edinburghshire	William Henry Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (CON)
Elgin District of Burghs	Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (LIB)
Elginshire & Nairnshire	Alexander William George Duff, Viscount Macduff (LIB)
Ennis	William Stacpoole (HR)
Enniskillen	John Henry Crichton, Viscount Crichton (CON)
Evesham	James Bourne (CON)
Exeter	Arthur Mills (CON) John George Johnson (CON)
Eye	George William Barrington, Viscount Barrington (CON)
Falkirk District of Burghs	John Ramsay (LIB)
Fermanagh County	Hon Henry Arthur Cole (CON) William Humphreys Archdall (CON)
Fife	Sir Robert Anstruther, Bt (LIB)
Finsbury	William Torrens McCullagh Torrens (LIB) Andrew Lusk (LIB)
Flint District of Boroughs	Peter Ellis Eyton (LIB)
Flintshire	Rt Hon Lord Richard de Aquila Grosvenor (LIB)
Forfarshire	James William Barclay (LIB)
Frome	Henry Charles Lopes (CON)
Galway	George Morris (HR) William Ulick Tristram St Lawrence, Viscount St Lawrence (HR)
Galway County	John Philip Nolan (HR) Mitchell Henry (HR)
Gateshead	Walter Henry James (LIB)
Glamorganshire	Henry Hussey Vivian (LIB) Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (LIB)
Glasgow	Dr Charles Cameron (LIB) George Anderson (LIB) Alexander Whitelaw (CON)
Gloucester	William Killigrew Wait (CON) Charles James Monk (LIB)
Grantham	Sir Hugh Arthur Henry Cholmeley, Bt (LIB) Henry Francis Cockayne Cust (CON)
Gravesend	Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim (CON)
Great Grimsby	John Chapman (CON)
Great Marlow	Thomas Owen Wethered (CON)
Greenock	James Johnston Grieve (LIB)
Greenwich	Thomas William Boord (CON) Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone (LIB)
Guildford	Denzil Roberts Onslow (CON)
Hackney	John Holms (LIB) Sir Charles Reed (LIB)
Haddington District of Burghs	Sir Henry Robert Ferguson Davie, Bt (LIB)
Haddingtonshire	Hon Francis Richard Wemyss-Charteris-Douglas, Baron Elcho (CON)
Halifax	John Crossley (LIB) Rt Hon James Stansfield (LIB)
Harwich	Henry Jervis White Jervis (CON)
Hastings	Thomas Brassey (LIB) Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth (LIB)
Haverfordwest District of Boroughs	Hon William Edwardes, Baron Kensington (LIB)
Hawick District of Burghs	George Otto Trevelyan (LIB)
Helston	Adolphus William Young (LIB)
Hereford	Evan Pateshall (CON) George Clive (LIB)
Herefordshire	Sir Joseph Russell Bailey, Bt (CON) Michael Biddulph (LIB) Daniel Peploe Peploe (CON)
Hertford	Arthur James Balfour (CON)
Hertfordshire	Thomas Frederick Halsey (CON) Abel Smith (CON) Hon Henry Frederick Cowper (LIB)
Horsham	Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald (CON)
Huddersfield	Edward Aldam Leatham (LIB)
Huntingdon	Sir John Burgess Karslake (CON)
Huntingdonshire	Edward Fellowes (CON) Sir Henry Carstairs Pelly, Bt (CON)
Hythe	Sir Edward William Watkin (LIB)
Inverness District of Burghs	Charles Fraser-Mackintosh (LIB)
Inverness-shire	Donald Cameron (CON)
Ipswich	John Patteson Cobbold (CON) James Redfoord Bulwer (CON)
Isle of Wight	Alexander Dundas Wishart Ross Baillie-Cochrane (CON)
Kendal	John Whitwell (LIB)
Kerry County	Henry Arthur Herbert (LIB) Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett (HR)
Kidderminster	Albert Grant (CON)
Kildare County	Charles Henry Meldon (HR) Rt Hon William Henry Ford Cogan (LIB)
Kilkenny City	Sir John Gray (HR)
Kilkenny County	George Leopold Bryan (HR) Patrick Leopold Martin (HR)
Kilmarnock District of Burghs	James Fortescue Harrison (LIB)
Kincardineshire	Sir George Balfour (LIB)
King's County	Sir Patrick O'Brien, Bt (HR) David Sherlock (HR)
King's Lynn	Hon Robert Bourke (CON) Lord Claud John Hamilton (CON)
Kingston upon Hull	Charles Henry Wilson (LIB) Charles Morgan Norwood (LIB)
Kinsale	Eugene Collins (HR)
Kirkcaldy District of Burghs	Robert Reid (LIB)
Kirkcudbrightshire	John Maitland (LIB)
Knaresborough	Basil Thomas Woodd (CON)
Lambeth	Sir James Clarke Lawrence, Bt (LIB) William McArthur (LIB)
Launceston	James Henry Deakin (CON)
Leeds	Robert Meek Carter (LIB) William St James Wheelhouse (CON) Robert Tennant (CON)
Leicester	Peter Alfred Taylor (LIB) Alexander McArthur (LIB)
Leith District of Burghs	Donald Robert Macgregor (LIB)
Leitrim County	Dr John Brady (HR) William Richard Ormsby-Gore (CON)
Leominster	Richard Arkwright (CON)
Lewes	William Langham Christie (CON)
Lichfield	Richard Dyott (CON)
Limerick City	Isaac Butt (HR) Richard O'Shaughnessy (HR)
Limerick County	William Henry O'Sullivan (HR) Edward John Synan (HR)
Lincoln	Edward Chaplin (CON) Charles Seely (LIB)
Linlithgowshire	Peter McLagan (LIB)
Lisburn	Sir Richard Wallace, Bt (CON)
Liskeard	Rt Hon Edward Horsman (LIB)
Liverpool	Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, Viscount Sandon (CON) John Torr (CON) William Rathbone (LIB)
London University	Rt Hon Robert Lowe (LIB)
Londonderry City	Charles Edward Lewis (CON)
Londonderry County	Prof Richard Smyth (LIB) Rt Hon Hugh Law (LIB)
Longford County	Myles William O'Reilly (HR) George Errington (HR)
Louth County	Alexander Martin Sullivan (HR) Philip Callan (HR)
Ludlow	Hon George Herbert Windsor Windsor-Clive (CON)
Lymington	Edmund Hegan Kennard (CON)
Macclesfield	William Coare Brocklehurst (LIB) David Chadwick (LIB)
Maidstone	Sir John Lubbock, Bt (LIB) Sir Sydney Hedley Waterlow, Bt (LIB)
Maldon	George Montagu Warren Sandford (CON)
Mallow	John George MacCarthy (HR)
Malmesbury	Walter Powell (CON)
Malton	Hon Charles William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (LIB)
Manchester	Hugh Birley (CON) William Romaine Callender (CON) Sir Thomas Bazley, Bt (LIB)
Marlborough	Lord Ernest Augustus Charles Brudenell-Bruce (LIB)
Marylebone	William Forsyth (CON) Sir Thomas Chambers (LIB)
Mayo County	George Eakins Browne (HR) Thomas Tighe (HR)
Meath County	Nicholas Ennis (HR) John Martin (HR)
Merionethshire	Samuel Holland (LIB)
Merthyr Tydvil	Henry Richard (LIB) Richard Fothergill (LIB)
Mid Cheshire	Hon Wilbraham Egerton (CON) Egerton Leigh (CON)
Mid Kent	Sir William Hart Dyke, Bt (CON) William Archer Amherst, Viscount Holmesdale (CON)
Mid Lincolnshire	Henry Chaplin (CON) Hon Edward Stanhope (CON)
Mid Somerset	Richard Horner Paget (CON) Ralph Neville Grenville (CON)
Mid Surrey	Henry William Peek (CON) Sir Richard Baggallay (CON)
Middlesbrough	Henry William Ferdinand Bolckow (LIB)
Middlesex	Lord George Francis Hamilton (CON) Octavius Edward Coope (CON)
Midhurst	Charles George Perceval (CON)
Monaghan County	John Leslie (CON) Sewallis Evelyn Shirley (CON)
Monmouth District of Boroughs	Thomas Cordes (CON)
Monmouthshire	Hon Frederic Courtenay Morgan (CON) Lord Henry Richard Charles Somerset (CON)
Montgomery District of Boroughs	Hon Charles Douglas Richard Hanbury-Tracy (LIB)
Montgomeryshire	Charles Watkin Williams Wynn (CON)
Montrose District of Burghs	Rt Hon William Edward Baxter (LIB)
Morpeth	Thomas Burt (LIB/LAB)
New Radnor District of Boroughs	Rt Hon Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington (LIB)
New Ross	John Dunbar (HR)
Newark-on-Trent	Thomas Earp (LIB) Samuel Boteler Bristowe (LIB)
Newcastle upon Tyne	Joseph Cowen (LIB) Charles Frederic Hamond (CON)
Newcastle-under-Lyme	Sir Edmund Buckley, Bt (CON) William Shepherd Allen (LIB)
Newport	Charles Cavendish Clifford (LIB)
Newry	William Whitworth (LIB)
North Eastern Lancashire	James Maden Holt (CON) John Pierce Chamberlain Starkie (CON)
North Riding, Yorkshire	Frederick Acclom Milbank (LIB) William Reginald Duncombe, Viscount Helmsley (CON)
Northallerton	George William Elliot (CON)
Northampton	Pickering Phipps (CON) Charles Gilpin (LIB)
Northern Ayrshire	Roger Montgomerie (CON)
Northern Derbyshire	Lord George Henry Cavendish (LIB) Augustus Peter Arkwright (CON)
Northern Devon	Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt (LIB) Rt Hon Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Bt (CON)
Northern Durham	Isaac Lowthian Bell (LIB) Charles Mark Palmer (LIB)
Northern Hampshire	William Withey Bramston Beach (CON) George Sclater Booth (CON)
Northern Lanarkshire	Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke, Bt (LIB)
Northern Lancashire	Rt Hon John Wilson Patten (CON) Hon Frederick Arthur Stanley (CON)
Northern Leicestershire	Lord John James Robert Manners (CON) Samuel William Clowes (CON)
Northern Lincolnshire	Rowland Winn (CON) Sir John Dugdale Astley, Bt (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-Sackville (CON)
Northern Northumberland	Henry George Percy, Earl Percy (CON) Matthew White Ridley (CON)
Northern Nottinghamshire	Frederick Chatfield Smith (CON) Hon George Edmund Milnes Monckton-Arundell (CON)
Northern Shropshire	John Ralph Ormsby-Gore (CON) George Cecil Orlando Bridgeman, Viscount Newport (CON)
Northern Staffordshire	Rt Hon Sir Charles Bowyer Adderley (CON) Colin Minton Campbell (CON)
Northern Warwickshire	Charles Newdigate Newdegate (CON) William Bromley Davenport (CON)
Northern West Riding, Yorkshire	Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish (LIB) Mathew Wilson (LIB)
Northern Wiltshire	George Thomas John Sotheron-Estcourt (CON) Sir George Samuel Jenkinson, Bt (CON)
Norwich	Jeremiah James Colman (LIB) John Walter Huddleston (CON)
Nottingham	William Evelyn Denison (CON) Saul Isaac (CON)
Oldham	Frederick Lowten Spinks (CON) John Morgan Cobbett (CON)
Orkney & Shetland	Samuel Laing (LIB)
Oxford	Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon-Harcourt (LIB) Rt Hon Edward Cardwell (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	William Holms (LIB)
Peeblesshire & Selkirkshire	Sir Graham Graham-Montgomery, Bt (CON)
Pembroke District of Boroughs	Edward James Reed (LIB)
Pembrokeshire	John Henry Scourfield (CON)
Penryn & Falmouth	David James Jenkins (LIB) Henry Thomas Cole (LIB)
Perth	Hon Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird (LIB)
Perthshire	Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, Bt (CON)
Peterborough	Thomson Hankey (LIB) George Hammond Whalley (LIB)
Petersfield	Hon William Sydney Hylton Jolliffe (CON)
Plymouth	Edward Bates (CON) Sampson Samuel Lloyd (CON)
Pontefract	Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (LIB) Samuel Waterhouse (CON)
Poole	Charles Waring (LIB)
Portarlington	Lionel Seymour William Dawson-Damer (CON)
Portsmouth	Sir James Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone, Bt (CON) Hon Thomas Charles Bruce (CON)
Preston	Edward Hermon (CON) John Holker (CON)
Queen's County	Kenelm Thomas Digby (HR) Edmund Dease (HR)
Radnorshire	Hon Arthur Walsh (CON)
Reading	George John Shaw-Lefevre (LIB) Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid, Bt (LIB)
Renfrewshire	William Mure (LIB)
Richmond	Hon John Charles Dundas (LIB)
Ripon	Frederick Oliver Robinson, Earl de Grey (LIB)
Rochdale	Thomas Bayley Potter (LIB)
Rochester	Philip Wykeham Martin (LIB) Julian Goldsmid (LIB)
Roscommon County	Charles Owen O'Conor, The O'Conor Don (HR) Hon Charles French (HR)
Ross & Cromarty	Alexander Matheson (LIB)
Roxburghshire	Sir George Henry Scott-Douglas, Bt (CON)
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	Granville Richard Ryder (CON) Dr John Alfred Lush (LIB)
Sandwich	Henry Arthur Brassey (LIB) Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen (LIB)
Scarborough	Sir Charles Legard, Bt (CON) Sir Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, Bt (LIB)
Shaftesbury	Vere Fane Benett-Stanford (CON)
Sheffield	John Arthur Roebuck (Ind LIB) Anthony John Mundella (LIB)
Shoreham	Sir Percy Burrell, Bt (CON) Stephen Cave (CON)
Shrewsbury	Charles Cecil Cotes (LIB) Henry Robertson (LIB)
Sligo County	Denis Maurice O'Conor (HR) Sir Robert Gore-Booth, Bt (CON)
South Eastern Lancashire	Hon Algernon Fulke Egerton (CON) Edward Hardcastle (CON)
South Shields	James Cochran Stevenson (LIB)
South Western Lancashire	Charles Turner (CON) Richard Assheton Cross (CON)
Southampton	Sir Frederick Perkins (LIB) Rt Hon Russell Gurney (CON)
Southern Ayrshire	Claud Alexander (CON)
Southern Derbyshire	Sir Henry Wilmot, Bt (CON) Thomas William Evans (LIB)
Southern Devon	Sir Massey Lopes, Bt (CON) John Carpenter Garnier (CON)
Southern Durham	Joseph Whitwell Pease (LIB) Frederick Edward Blackett Beaumont (LIB)
Southern Essex	Thomas Charles Baring (CON) William Thomas Makins (CON)
Southern Hampshire	Lord Henry John Montagu-Douglas-Scott (CON) Rt Hon William Francis Cowper-Temple (LIB)
Southern Lanarkshire	Sir Windham Charles James Carmichael-Anstruther, Bt (CON)
Southern Leicestershire	Albert Pell (CON) William Unwin Heygate (CON)
Southern Lincolnshire	William Earle Welby (CON) Edmund Turnor (CON)
Southern Norfolk	Clare Sewell Read (CON) Sir Robert Jacob Buxton, Bt (CON)
Southern Northamptonshire	Sir Rainald Knightley, Bt (CON) Fairfax William Cartwright (CON)
Southern Northumberland	Wentworth Blackett Beaumont (LIB) Henry George Liddell, Baron Eslington (CON)
Southern Nottinghamshire	Thomas Blackburne Thornton Hildyard (CON) George Storer (CON)
Southern Shropshire	Hon Sir Percy Egerton Herbert (CON) Edward Corbett (CON)
Southern Warwickshire	Hugh de Grey Seymour, Earl of Yarmouth (CON) Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, Bt (CON)
Southern West Riding, Yorkshire	Walter Thomas William Spencer Stanhope (CON) Lewis Randle Starkey (CON)
Southern Wiltshire	Lord Henry Frederick Thynne (CON) William Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone (CON)
Southwark	John Locke (LIB) Marcus Beresford (CON)
St Andrews District of Burghs	Edward Ellice (LIB)
St Ives	Edward Gershour Davenport (CON)
Stafford	Thomas Salt (CON) Alexander Macdonald (LIB/LAB)
Stalybridge	Thomas Harrop Sidebottom (CON)
Stamford	Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay, Bt (CON)
Stirling District of Burghs	Henry Campbell-Bannerman (LIB)
Stirlingshire	Sir William Edmonstone, Bt (CON)
Stockport	Charles Henry Hopwood (LIB) Frederick Pennington (LIB)
Stockton-on-Tees	Joseph Dodds (LIB)
Stoke-on-Trent	George Melly (LIB) Robert Heath (CON)
Stroud	Walter John Stanton (LIB) Sebastian Stewart Dickinson (LIB)
Sunderland	Edward Temperley Gourley (LIB) Sir Henry Marsham Havelock, Bt (LIB)
Sutherland	Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Marquess of Stafford (LIB)
Swansea District of Boroughs	Lewis Llewellyn Dillwyn (LIB)
Tamworth	Sir Robert Peel, Bt (LIB) Robert William Hanbury (CON)
Taunton	Alexander Charles Barclay (LIB) Sir Henry James (LIB)
Tavistock	Lord Arthur John Edward Russell (LIB)
Tewkesbury	William Edwin Price (LIB)
The Hartlepools	Thomas Richardson (LIB)
Thirsk	Sir William Payne Gallwey, Bt (CON)
Tipperary County	Hon Charles William White (HR) Hon William Frederick Ormond O'Callaghan (HR)
Tiverton	John Heathcoat Heathcoat-Amory (LIB) William Nathaniel Massey (LIB)
Tower Hamlets	Charles Thomson Ritchie (CON) Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda (LIB)
Tralee	Daniel O'Donoghue, The O'Donoghue (LIB)
Truro	Sir Frederick Martin Williams, Bt (CON) James Macnaghten Hogg (CON)
Tynemouth & North Shields	Thomas Eustace Smith (LIB)
Tyrone County	John William Ellison Macartney (CON) Hon Henry William Corry (CON)
Wakefield	Edward Green (CON)
Wallingford	Edward Wells (CON)
Walsall	Charles Forster (LIB)
Wareham	John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax (CON)
Warrington	Gilbert Greenall (CON)
Warwick	George William John Repton (CON) Arthur Wellesley Peel (LIB)
Waterford City	Richard Power (HR) Purcell O'Gorman (HR)
Waterford County	Lord Charles William de la Poer Beresford (CON) Sir John Esmonde, Bt (HR)
Wednesbury	Alexander Brogden (LIB)
Wenlock	Rt Hon George Cecil Weld Weld-Forester (CON) Alexander Hargreaves Brown (LIB)
Westbury	Abraham Laverton (LIB)
Western Aberdeenshire	William McCombie (LIB)
Western Cheshire	Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bt (CON) Wilbraham Frederick Tollemache (CON)
Western Cornwall	Sir John St Aubyn, Bt (LIB) Arthur Pendarves Vivian (LIB)
Western Cumberland	Hon Percy Scawen Wyndham (CON) Josslyn Francis Pennington, Baron Muncaster (CON)
Western Essex	Lord Eustace Henry Brownlow Gascoyne-Cecil (CON) Sir Henry John Selwyn-Ibbetson, Bt (CON)
Western Gloucestershire	Hon Randal Edward Sherborne Plunkett (CON) Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (LIB)
Western Kent	Sir Charles Henry Mills, Bt (CON) John Gilbert Talbot (CON)
Western Norfolk	Sir William Bagge, Bt (CON) George William Pierrepont Bentinck (CON)
Western Somerset	Hon Arthur Wellington Alexander Nelson Hood (CON) Vaughan Hanning Lee (CON)
Western Staffordshire	Francis Monckton (CON) Alexander Staveley Hill (CON)
Western Suffolk	William Windsor Parker (CON) Lord Augustus Henry Charles Hervey (CON)
Western Surrey	George Cubitt (CON) Lee Steere (CON)
Western Sussex	Walter Barttelot Barttelot (CON) Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March (CON)
Western Worcestershire	William Edward Dowdeswell (CON) Frederic Winn Knight (CON)
Westmeath County	Patrick James Smyth (HR) Rt Hon Lord Robert Montagu (HR)
Westminster	William Henry Smith (CON) Sir Charles Russell, Bt (CON)
Westmorland	Hon William Lowther (CON) Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective (CON)
Wexford	William Archer Redmond (HR)
Wexford County	Sir George Bowyer, Bt (HR) Patrick Keyes O'Clery (HR)
Weymouth & Melcombe Regis	Henry Edwards (LIB) Sir Frederick John William Johnstone, Bt (CON)
Whitby	William Henry Gladstone (LIB)
Whitehaven	George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (CON)
Wick District of Burghs	John Pender (LIB)
Wicklow County	William Richard O'Byrne (HR) William Wentworth Fitzwilliam-Dick (CON)
Wigan	James Ludovic Lindsay, Baron Lindsay (CON) Thomas Knowles (CON)
Wigtown District of Burghs	Mark John Stewart (CON)
Wigtownshire	Robert Vans-Agnew (CON)
Wilton	Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bt (LIB)
Winchester	William Barrow Simonds (CON) Arthur Robert Naghten (CON)
Windsor	Robert Richardson-Gardner (CON)
Wolverhampton	Rt Hon Charles Pelham Villiers (LIB) Thomas Matthias Weguelin (LIB)
Woodstock	Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (CON)
Worcester	Alexander Clunes Sheriff (LIB) Thomas Rowley Hill (LIB)
Wycombe	Hon William Henry Peregrine Carington (LIB)
York	George Leeman (LIB) James Lowther (CON)
Youghal	Sir Joseph Neale McKenna (HR)

Date Parliament Summoned: 5 March 1874

By-Elections
13 March 1874	Chichester	Lord Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox (CON)
13 March 1874	Shoreham	Stephen Cave (CON)
14 March 1874	Aberdeen & Glasgow Universities	Rt Hon Edward Strathearn Gordon (CON)
14 March 1874	Liverpool	Rt Hon Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, Viscount Sandon (CON)
14 March 1874	Northern Hampshire	Rt Hon George Sclater Booth (CON)
14 March 1874	Oxford University	Rt Hon Gathorne Hardy (CON)
16 March 1874	Dublin University	Rt Hon John Thomas Ball (CON)
16 March 1874	Huntingdon	Sir John Burgess Karslake (CON)
16 March 1874	Mid Surrey	Sir Richard Baggallay (CON)
16 March 1874	Northern Lincolnshire	Rowland Winn (CON)
16 March 1874	Oxford	Alexander William Hall (CON)
16 March 1874	Portsmouth	Sir James Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone, Bt (CON)
17 March 1874	Buckinghamshire	Rt Hon Benjamin Disraeli (CON)
17 March 1874	Eastern Gloucestershire	Rt Hon Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, Bt (CON)
17 March 1874	Monmouthshire	Lord Henry Richard Charles Somerset (CON)
17 March 1874	Northern Northumberland	Henry George Percy, Earl Percy (CON)
18 March 1874	Dublin County	Rt Hon Thomas Edward Taylor (CON)
18 March 1874	Northern Devon	Rt Hon Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Bt (CON)
18 March 1874	Northern Northamptonshire	Rt Hon George Ward Hunt (CON)
19 March 1874	Eye	Rt Hon George William Barrington, Viscount Barrington (CON)
19 March 1874	Inverness-shire	Donald Cameron (CON)
19 March 1874	South Western Lancashire	Rt Hon Richard Assheton Cross (CON)
19 March 1874	Southern Devon	Sir Massey Lopes, Bt (CON)
20 March 1874	Eastern Suffolk	Arthur Philip Stanhope, Viscount Mahon (CON)
20 March 1874	Northern Leicestershire	Rt Hon Lord John James Robert Manners (CON)
23 March 1874	Northern Staffordshire	Rt Hon Sir Charles Bowyer Adderley (CON)
25 March 1874	Galway	Frank Hugh O'Cahan O'Donnell (HR)
26 March 1874	Falkirk District of Burghs	John Ramsay (LIB)
26 March 1874	Northern Lancashire	Thomas Henry Clifton (CON)
9 April 1874	Louth County	George Harley Kirk (HR)
24 April 1874	Preston	John Holker (CON)
25 April 1874	Hackney	John Holms (LIB) Prof Henry Fawcett (LIB)
6 May 1874	Wakefield	Thomas Kemp Sanderson (CON)
18 May 1874	Stroud	John Edward Dorington (CON) Alfred John Stanton (LIB)
21 May 1874	Dudley	Henry Brinsley Sheridan (LIB)
26 May 1874	Poole	Hon Anthony Evelyn Melbourne Ashley (LIB)
1 June 1874	Mayo County	George Eakins Browne (HR) John O'Connor Power (HR)
12 June 1874	Haverfordwest District of Boroughs	Hon William Edwardes, Baron Kensington (LIB)
13 June 1874	Durham	Farrer Herschell (LIB) Sir Arthur Edward Monck, Bt (LIB)
15 June 1874	Wigtown District of Burghs	Mark John Stewart (CON)
22 June 1874	Northern Durham	Charles Mark Palmer (LIB) Sir George Elliot, Bt (CON)
2 July 1874	Galway	Michael Francis Ward (HR)
3 July 1874	Launceston	James Henry Deakin (CON)
27 July 1874	Stroud	Henry Robert Brand (LIB)
1 August 1874	Kidderminster	Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bt (CON)
23 September 1874	Midhurst	Sir Henry Thurstan Holland, Bt (CON)
5 October 1874	Cambridgeshire	Benjamin Bridges Hunter Rodwell (CON)
7 October 1874	Northampton	Charles George Mereweather (CON)
16 November 1874	Wenlock	Cecil Theodore Weld-Forester (CON)
26 November 1874	Birkenhead	David MacIver (CON)
30 December 1874	St Ives	Charles Tyringham Praed (CON)
21 January 1875	Dublin University	Edward Gibson (CON)
27 January 1875	Eastern Kent	Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, Bt (CON)
11 February 1875	Dublin University	Hon David Robert Plunket (CON)
16 February 1875	Chatham	John Eldon Gorst (CON)
16 February 1875	Tipperary County	John Mitchel (Ind N)
18 February 1875	Stoke-on-Trent	Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy (Ind)
22 February 1875	Stroud	Samuel Stephens Marling (LIB)
24 February 1875	Berkshire	Philip Wroughton (CON)
6 March 1875	Norwich	Jacob Henry Tillett (LIB)
8 March 1875	St Ives	Charles Tyringham Praed (CON)
11 March 1875	Tipperary County	John Mitchel (Ind N)
31 March 1875	Bridport	Pandeli Toumazis Ralli (LIB)
21 April 1875	Meath County	Charles Stewart Parnell (HR)
23 April 1875	Kirkcaldy District of Burghs	Sir George Campbell (LIB)
28 April 1875	Bedfordshire	George William Francis Sackville Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (LIB)
29 April 1875	Kilkenny City	Benjamin Whitworth (LIB)
22 May 1875	Brecknockshire	William Fuller-Maitland (LIB)
17 June 1875	Western Suffolk	Fuller Maitland Wilson (CON)
29 July 1875	The Hartlepools	Isaac Lowthian Bell (LIB)
2 October 1875	Blackburn	Daniel Thwaites (CON)
4 October 1875	Western Suffolk	Thomas Thornhill (CON)
18 October 1875	Armagh City	George de la Poer Beresford (CON)
6 November 1875	South Western Lancashire	John Ireland Blackburne (CON)
24 November 1875	Mid Surrey	Sir James John Trevor Lawrence, Bt (CON)
17 December 1875	Horsham	Robert Henry Hurst (LIB)
18 December 1875	Whitehaven	Rt Hon George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (CON)
24 December 1875	Eastern Aberdeenshire	Hon Sir Alexander Hamilton Gordon (CON)
1 January 1876	Ipswich	Thomas Clement Cobbold (CON)
4 January 1876	Southern Wiltshire	Lord Henry Frederick Thynne (CON)
3 February 1876	Northern Shropshire	Stanley Leighton (CON)
5 February 1876	Dorset	Hon Edward Henry Trafalgar Digby (CON)
11 February 1876	Burnley	Peter Rylands (LIB)
15 February 1876	Enniskillen	John Henry Crichton, Viscount Crichton (CON)
16 February 1876	Huntingdon	Edward George Henry Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke (CON)
16 February 1876	Leominster	Thomas Blake (LIB)
19 February 1876	Manchester	Jacob Bright (LIB)
24 February 1876	Eastern Suffolk	Frederick St John Newdigate Barne (CON)
25 February 1876	East Retford	William Beckett Denison (CON)
29 February 1876	Horsham	James Clifton Brown (LIB)
24 April 1876	Northern Norfolk	James Duff (CON)
28 April 1876	Eastern Cumberland	Edward Stafford Howard (LIB)
12 May 1876	Western Aberdeenshire	Lord Douglas William Cope Gordon (LIB)
25 May 1876	Cork City	William Goulding (CON)
27 June 1876	Birmingham	Joseph Chamberlain (LIB)
28 June 1876	Pembrokeshire	James Bevan Bowen (CON)
8 July 1876	Western Worcestershire	Sir Edmund Anthony Harley Lechmere, Bt (CON)
17 July 1876	Leitrim County	Francis O'Beirne (HR)
18 July 1876	Mid Cheshire	Piers Egerton-Warburton (CON)
26 July 1876	Eastern Kent	William Deedes (CON)
5 August 1876	Shoreham	Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell, Bt (CON)
14 August 1876	Carmarthen District of Boroughs	Emile Algernon Arthur Keppell Cowell-Stepney (LIB)
15 August 1876	Leeds	John Barran (LIB)
17 August 1876	Rutlandshire	Hon Gerard James Noel (CON)
26 August 1876	Donegal County	William Wilson (CON)
22 September 1876	Buckinghamshire	Hon Thomas Francis Fremantle (CON)
3 November 1876	Southern Shropshire	John Edmund Severne (CON)
14 November 1876	Aberdeen & Glasgow Universities	Rt Hon William Watson (CON)
24 November 1876	Frome	Henry Bernhard Samuelson (LIB)
22 December 1876	Liskeard	Leonard Henry Courtney (LIB)
12 January 1877	Sligo County	Edward Robert King-Harman (HR)
20 January 1877	Waterford County	James Delahunty (HR)
24 January 1877	Dungarvan	Frank Hugh O'Cahan O'Donnell (HR)
13 February 1877	Dublin University	Edward Gibson (CON)
21 February 1877	Halifax	John Dyson Hutchinson (LIB)
21 February 1877	Wilton	Hon Sidney Herbert (CON)
1 March 1877	Oldham	John Tomlinson Hibbert (LIB)
3 March 1877	Launceston	Sir Hardinge Stanley Giffard (CON)
19 April 1877	Salford	Oliver Ormerod Walker (CON)
15 May 1877	Tipperary County	Edmund William Dwyer Gray (HR)
17 May 1877	Montgomery District of Boroughs	Hon Frederick Stephen Archibald Hanbury-Tracy (LIB)
30 June 1877	Huntingdonshire	George Victor Drogo Montagu, Viscount Mandeville (CON)
3 August 1877	Great Grimsby	Alfred Mellor Watkin (LIB)
10 August 1877	Southern Shropshire	Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bt (CON)
11 August 1877	Westminster	William Henry Smith (CON)
13 August 1877	Clare County	Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, Bt (HR)
15 August 1877	Northern Northamptonshire	Brownlow Henry George Cecil, Baron Burghley (CON)
25 January 1878	Greenock	James Stewart (LIB)
29 January 1878	Leith District of Burghs	Andrew Grant (LIB)
29 January 1878	Perth	Charles Stuart Parker (LIB)
31 January 1878	Marlborough	Lord Charles William Brudenell-Bruce (LIB)
4 February 1878	Perthshire	Henry Edward Home-Drummond-Moray (CON)
5 February 1878	Oxfordshire	Edward William Vernon Harcourt (CON)
20 February 1878	York	James Lowther (CON)
2 March 1878	Canterbury	Hon Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy (CON)
13 March 1878	Cirencester	Thomas William Chester-Master (CON)
14 March 1878	Hereford	George Arbuthnot (CON)
19 March 1878	Mid Somerset	William Stephen Gore-Langton (CON)
20 March 1878	Eastern Somerset	Philip John William Miles (CON)
28 March 1878	Worcester	John Derby Allcroft (CON)
2 April 1878	Belfast	William Ewart (CON)
8 April 1878	Northern Lancashire	Rt Hon Frederick Arthur Stanley (CON)
12 April 1878	Middlesex	Rt Hon Lord George Francis Hamilton (CON)
18 April 1878	Southern Northumberland	Edward Ridley (CON) Albert Henry George Grey (LIB)
24 April 1878	Northern Staffordshire	Robert William Hanbury (CON)
25 April 1878	Tamworth	Hamar Alfred Bass (LIB)
11 May 1878	Carmarthen District of Boroughs	Benjamin Thomas Williams (LIB)
15 May 1878	Western Kent	William Heneage Legge, Viscount Lewisham (CON)
17 May 1878	Down County	Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest, Viscount Castlereagh (CON)
17 May 1878	Oxford University	John Gilbert Talbot (CON)
18 May 1878	Reading	George Palmer (LIB)
14 June 1878	Rochester	Arthur John Otway (LIB)
17 June 1878	Southampton	Alfred Giles (CON)
5 July 1878	Flint District of Boroughs	John Roberts (LIB)
5 July 1878	Middlesbrough	Isaac Wilson (LIB)
3 August 1878	Haddington District of Burghs	Lord William Montagu Hay (LIB)
12 August 1878	Boston	Thomas Garfitt (CON)
26 August 1878	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Samuel Rathbone Edge (LIB)
31 August 1878	Argyll	Lord Colin Campbell (LIB)
26 September 1878	Truro	Arthur Tremayne (CON)
29 October 1878	Peterborough	Hon William John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (Ind LIB)
12 December 1878	Maldon	George Courtauld (LIB)
16 December 1878	Bristol	Lewis Fry (LIB)
17 December 1878	New Ross	Charles George Tottenham (CON)
23 December 1878	Londonderry County	Sir Thomas McClure, Bt (LIB)
23 January 1879	Northern Norfolk	Edward Birkbeck (CON)
30 January 1879	Cambridgeshire	Edward Hicks (CON)
17 February 1879	Cork County	David la Touche Colthurst (HR)
21 February 1879	Southern Warwickshire	Hugh de Grey Seymour, Earl of Yarmouth (CON)
26 February 1879	Haddington District of Burghs	Sir David Wedderburn, Bt (LIB)
19 March 1879	Eastern Somerset	Francis Richard Charles Guy Greville, Baron Brooke (CON)
5 April 1879	Longford County	Justin McCarthy (HR)
18 April 1879	Cockermouth	William Fletcher (LIB)
25 April 1879	Eastern Cumberland	George James Howard (LIB)
5 May 1879	Clare County	Charles James Patrick Mahon (HR)
8 May 1879	Canterbury	Robert Peter Laurie (CON)
26 May 1879	Limerick City	Daniel FitzGerald Gabbett (HR)
16 July 1879	Glasgow	Charles Tennant (LIB)
26 July 1879	Ennis	James Lysaght Finigan (HR)
18 September 1879	Elginshire & Nairnshire	Sir George Macpherson Grant, Bt (LIB)
15 December 1879	Donegal County	Thomas Lea (LIB)
21 December 1879	Sheffield	Samuel Danks Waddy (LIB)
6 February 1880	Liverpool	Edward Whitley (CON)
12 February 1880	Barnstaple	Newton Wallop, Viscount Lymington (LIB)
14 February 1880	Southwark	Edward George Clarke (CON)
27 February 1880	Kilkenny City	John Francis Smithwick (HR)
2 March 1880	Drogheda	Benjamin Whitworth (LIB)
8 March 1880	Western Norfolk	William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (CON)

Petitions Resulting in New MP(s)
24 April 1874	Athlone
8 June 1874	Boston	John Wingfield Malcolm (CON)

Date Parliament Dissolved: 24 March 1880

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