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Constituencies and MPs

< General Election - April 1880 >

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	348
CON	238
HR	53
HR (P)	9
LIB/LAB	3
Ind LIB	1

Aberdeen	Dr John Webster (LIB)
Aberdeen & Glasgow Universities	James Alexander Campbell (CON)
Abingdon	John Creemer Clarke (LIB)
Andover	Francis William Buxton (LIB)
Anglesea	Richard Davies (LIB)
Antrim County	James Chaine (CON) Edward MacNaghten (CON)
Argyll	Lord Colin Campbell (LIB)
Armagh City	George de la Poer Beresford (CON)
Armagh County	James Nicholson Richardson (LIB) Maxwell Charles Close (CON)
Ashton-under-Lyne	Hugh Mason (LIB)
Athlone	Sir John James Ennis, Bt (LIB)
Aylesbury	Sir Nathaniel Meyer de Rothschild, Bt (LIB) George William Erskine Russell (LIB)
Ayr District of Burghs	Richard Frederick Fotheringham Campbell (LIB)
Banbury	Bernhard Samuelson (LIB)
Bandon	Percy Broderick Bernard (CON)
Banffshire	Robert William Duff (LIB)
Barnstaple	Sir Robert Walter Carden (CON) Newton Wallop, Viscount Lymington (LIB)
Bath	Sir Arthur Divett Hayter, Bt (LIB) Edmond Robert Wodehouse (LIB)
Beaumaris District of Boroughs	Morgan Lloyd (LIB)
Bedford	Samuel Whitbread (LIB) Charles Magniac (LIB)
Bedfordshire	James Howard (LIB) George William Francis Sackville Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (LIB)
Belfast	William Ewart (CON) James Porter Corry (CON)
Berkshire	Robert James Loyd-Lindsay (CON) Philip Wroughton (CON) John Walter (LIB)
Berwick-upon-Tweed	Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, Bt (LIB) Hon Henry Strutt (LIB)
Berwickshire	Edward Marjoribanks (LIB)
Bewdley	Charles Harrison (LIB)
Birkenhead	David MacIver (CON)
Birmingham	Philip Henry Muntz (LIB) Rt Hon John Bright (LIB) Joseph Chamberlain (LIB)
Blackburn	William Edward Briggs (LIB) William Coddington (CON)
Bodmin	Hon Edward Frederic Leveson-Gower (LIB)
Bolton	John Kynaston Cross (LIB) John Pennington Thomasson (LIB)
Boston	Thomas Garfitt (CON) William James Ingram (LIB)
Bradford	Rt Hon William Edward Forster (LIB) Alfred Illingworth (LIB)
Brecknockshire	William Fuller-Maitland (LIB)
Brecon	Cyril Flower (LIB)
Bridgnorth	William Henry Foster (CON)
Bridport	Charles Nicholas Warton (CON)
Brighton	John Robert Hollond (LIB) William Thackeray Marriott (LIB)
Bristol	Samuel Morley (LIB) Lewis Fry (LIB)
Buckingham	Sir Harry Verney, Bt (LIB)
Buckinghamshire	Sir Robert Bateson Harvey, Bt (CON) Hon Thomas Francis Fremantle (CON) Hon Rupert Clement George Carington (LIB)
Burnley	Peter Rylands (LIB)
Bury	Robert Needham Philips (LIB)
Bury St Edmunds	Joseph Alfred Hardcastle (LIB) Edward Greene (CON)
Bute	Thomas Russell (LIB)
Caithness	Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, Bt (LIB)
Calne	Lord Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice (LIB)
Cambridge	William Fowler (LIB) Hugh Shield (LIB)
Cambridge University	Rt Hon Spencer Horatio Walpole (CON) Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope (CON)
Cambridgeshire	Benjamin Bridges Hunter Rodwell (CON) Rt Hon Henry Bouverie William Brand (LIB) Edward Hicks (CON)
Canterbury	Hon Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy (CON) Robert Peter Laurie (CON)
Cardiff District of Boroughs	Edward James Reed (LIB)
Cardigan District of Boroughs	David Davies (LIB)
Cardiganshire	Lewis Pugh Pugh (LIB)
Carlisle	Robert Ferguson (LIB) Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bt (LIB)
Carlow	Charles Dawson (HR (P))
Carlow County	Edmund William Dwyer Gray (HR) Donald Horne Macfarlane (HR)
Carmarthen District of Boroughs	Benjamin Thomas Williams (LIB)
Carmarthenshire	Walter Rice Howell Powell (LIB) Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, Viscount Emlyn (CON)
Carnarvon District of Boroughs	William Bulkeley Hughes (LIB)
Carnarvonshire	Charles James Watkin Williams (LIB)
Carrickfergus	Thomas Greer (CON)
Cavan County	Charles Joseph Fay (HR) Joseph Gillis Biggar (HR (P))
Chatham	John Eldon Gorst (CON)
Chelsea	Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bt (LIB) Joseph Firth Bottomley Firth (LIB)
Cheltenham	Charles Conrad Adolphus du Bois de Ferrieres, Baron de Ferrieres (LIB)
Chester	Rt Hon John George Dodson (LIB) Hon Beilby Lawley (LIB)
Chichester	Lord Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox (CON)
Chippenham	Gabriel Goldney (CON)
Christchurch	Horace Davey (LIB)
Cirencester	Thomas William Chester-Master (CON)
City of London	William James Richmond Cotton (CON) Robert Nicholas Fowler (CON) Rt Hon John Gellibrand Hubbard (CON) William Lawrence (LIB)
Clackmannanshire & Kinross-shire	Rt Hon William Patrick Adam (LIB)
Clare County	Charles James Patrick Mahon (HR (P)) William Henry O'Shea (HR (P))
Clitheroe	Richard Fort (LIB)
Clonmel	Count Arthur John Moore (HR)
Cockermouth	Edward Waugh (LIB)
Colchester	Richard Knight Causton (LIB) William Willis (LIB)
Coleraine	Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bt (CON)
Cork City	John Daly (HR (P)) Charles Stewart Parnell (HR)
Cork County	William Shaw (HR) David la Touche Colthurst (HR)
Coventry	Sir Henry Mather Jackson, Bt (LIB) William Henry Wills (LIB)
Cricklade	Mervin Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne (LIB) Sir Daniel Gooch, Bt (CON)
Darlington	Theodore Fry (LIB)
Denbigh District of Boroughs	Sir Robert Alfred Cunliffe, Bt (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	Thomas Lea (LIB) Rev John Kinnear (LIB)
Dorchester	William Ernest Brymer (CON)
Dorset	Hon William Henry Berkeley Portman (LIB) John Floyer (CON) Hon Edward Henry Trafalgar Digby (CON)
Dover	Charles Kaye Freshfield (CON) Alexander George Dickson (CON)
Down County	Lord Arthur William Hill (CON) Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (CON)
Downpatrick	John Mulholland (CON)
Drogheda	Benjamin Whitworth (LIB)
Droitwich	John Corbett (LIB)
Dublin City	Maurice Brooks (HR) Dr Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons (LIB)
Dublin County	Rt Hon Thomas Edward Taylor (CON) Ion Trant Hamilton (CON)
Dublin University	Rt Hon David Robert Plunket (CON) Rt Hon Edward Gibson (CON)
Dudley	Henry Brinsley Sheridan (LIB)
Dumfries District of Burghs	Ernest Noel (LIB)
Dumfriesshire	Robert Jardine (LIB)
Dunbartonshire	Archibald Orr-Ewing (CON)
Dundalk	Charles Arthur Russell (LIB)
Dundee	George Armitstead (LIB) Frank Henderson (LIB)
Dungannon	Thomas Alexander Dickson (LIB)
Dungarvan	Frank Hugh O'Cahan O'Donnell (HR)
Durham	Thomas Charles Thompson (LIB) Farrer Herschell (LIB)
East Retford	Francis John Savile Foljambe (LIB) Frederick Thorpe Mappin (LIB)
East Riding, Yorkshire	Christopher Sykes (CON) William Henry Harrison-Broadley (CON)
Eastern Aberdeenshire	Hon Sir Alexander Hamilton Gordon (CON)
Eastern Cheshire	William Cunliffe Brooks (CON) William John Legh (CON)
Eastern Cornwall	Hon Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes (LIB) William Copeland Borlase (LIB)
Eastern Cumberland	Sir Richard Courtenay Musgrave, Bt (CON) Edward Stafford Howard (LIB)
Eastern Derbyshire	Alfred Barnes (LIB) Hon Francis Egerton (LIB)
Eastern Devon	Sir John Henry Kennaway, Bt (CON) William Hood Walrond (CON)
Eastern Essex	James Round (CON) Sir Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise (CON)
Eastern Gloucestershire	Rt Hon Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, Bt (CON) John Reginald Yorke (CON)
Eastern Kent	Aretas Akers-Douglas (CON) Edward Leigh Pemberton (CON)
Eastern Somerset	Sir Philip John William Miles, Bt (CON) Francis Richard Charles Guy Greville, Baron Brooke (CON)
Eastern Staffordshire	Michael Arthur Bass (LIB) Henry Samuel Wiggin (LIB)
Eastern Suffolk	Frederick William Brook Thellusson, Baron Rendlesham (CON) Frederick St John Newdigate Barne (CON)
Eastern Surrey	William Grantham (CON) James Watney (CON)
Eastern Sussex	George Burrow Gregory (CON) Montagu David Scott (CON)
Eastern West Riding, Yorkshire	Sir Andrew Fairbairn (LIB) Sir John William Ramsden, Bt (LIB)
Eastern Worcestershire	William Henry Gladstone (LIB) George Woodyatt Hastings (LIB)
Edinburgh	Duncan McLaren (LIB) James Cowan (LIB)
Edinburgh & St Andrews Universities	Rt Hon Prof Lyon Playfair (LIB)
Edinburghshire	Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone (LIB)
Elgin District of Burghs	Rt Hon Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (LIB)
Elginshire & Nairnshire	Sir George Macpherson Grant, Bt (LIB)
Ennis	James Lysaght Finigan (HR)
Enniskillen	Lowry Egerton Cole, Viscount Cole (CON)
Evesham	Daniel Rowlinson Ratcliff (LIB)
Exeter	Edward Johnson (LIB) Henry Stafford Northcote (CON)
Eye	Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (CON)
Falkirk District of Burghs	John Ramsay (LIB)
Fermanagh County	William Humphreys Archdall (CON) John Henry Crichton, Viscount Crichton (CON)
Fife	Hon Robert Preston Bruce (LIB)
Finsbury	Sir Andrew Lusk, Bt (LIB) William Torrens McCullagh Torrens (LIB)
Flint District of Boroughs	John Roberts (LIB)
Flintshire	Rt Hon Lord Richard de Aquila Grosvenor (LIB)
Forfarshire	James William Barclay (LIB)
Frome	Henry Bernhard Samuelson (LIB)
Galway	John Orrell Lever (HR) Thomas Power O'Connor (HR)
Galway County	John Philip Nolan (HR) Mitchell Henry (HR)
Gateshead	Walter Henry James (LIB)
Glamorganshire	Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (LIB) Henry Hussey Vivian (LIB)
Glasgow	George Anderson (LIB) Dr Charles Cameron (LIB) Robert Tweedie Middleton (LIB)
Gloucester	Thomas Robinson (LIB) Charles James Monk (LIB)
Grantham	John William Mellor (LIB) Charles Savile Roundell (LIB)
Gravesend	Thomas Bevan (LIB)
Great Grimsby	Edward Heneage (LIB)
Great Marlow	Owen Lewis Cope Williams (CON)
Greenock	James Stewart (LIB)
Greenwich	Thomas William Boord (CON) Henry de Worms, Baron de Worms (CON)
Guildford	Denzil Roberts Onslow (CON)
Hackney	Prof Henry Fawcett (LIB) John Holms (LIB)
Haddington District of Burghs	Sir David Wedderburn, bt (LIB)
Haddingtonshire	Hon Francis Richard Wemyss-Charteris-Douglas, Baron Elcho (CON)
Halifax	Rt Hon James Stansfield (LIB) John Dyson Hutchinson (LIB)
Harwich	Sir Henry Whatley Tyler (CON)
Hastings	Charles James Murray (CON) Thomas Brassey (LIB)
Haverfordwest District of Boroughs	Hon William Edwardes, Baron Kensington (LIB)
Hawick District of Burghs	George Otto Trevelyan (LIB)
Helston	William Napleton Molesworth-St Aubyn (CON)
Hereford	Joseph Pulley (LIB) Robert Threshie Reid (LIB)
Herefordshire	Sir Joseph Russell Bailey, Bt (CON) Michael Biddulph (LIB) Thomas Duckham (LIB)
Hertford	Arthur James Balfour (CON)
Hertfordshire	Thomas Frederick Halsey (CON) Abel Smith (CON) Hon Henry Frederick Cowper (LIB)
Horsham	Sir Henry Fletcher, Bt (CON)
Huddersfield	Edward Aldam Leatham (LIB)
Huntingdon	Edward George Henry Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke (CON)
Huntingdonshire	William Henry Fellowes (CON) Lord Douglas William Cope Gordon (LIB)
Hythe	Sir Edward William Watkin (LIB)
Inverness District of Burghs	Charles Fraser-Mackintosh (LIB)
Inverness-shire	Donald Cameron (CON)
Ipswich	Thomas Clement Cobbold (CON) Jesse Collings (LIB)
Isle of Wight	Hon Anthony Evelyn Melbourne Ashley (LIB)
Kendal	John Whitwell (LIB)
Kerry County	Rowland Ponsonby Blennerhassett (HR) Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, Bt (HR)
Kidderminster	John Brinton (LIB)
Kildare County	Charles Henry Meldon (HR) James Leahy (HR)
Kilkenny City	John Francis Smithwick (HR)
Kilkenny County	Edward Purcell Mulhallen Marum (HR (P)) Patrick Leopold Martin (HR)
Kilmarnock District of Burghs	John Dick Peddie (LIB)
Kincardineshire	Sir George Balfour (LIB)
King's County	Sir Patrick O'Brien, Bt (HR) Bernard Charles Molloy (HR)
King's Lynn	Sir William Hovell Browne ffolkes, Bt (LIB) Rt Hon Robert Bourke (CON)
Kingston upon Hull	Charles Morgan Norwood (LIB) Charles Henry Wilson (LIB)
Kinsale	Eugene Collins (HR)
Kirkcaldy District of Burghs	Sir George Campbell (LIB)
Kirkcudbrightshire	John Maxwell Heron-Maxwell (LIB)
Knaresborough	Sir Henry Meysey Thompson, Bt (LIB)
Lambeth	Sir James Clarke Lawrence, Bt (LIB) William McArthur (LIB)
Launceston	Sir Hardinge Stanley Giffard (CON)
Leeds	Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone (LIB) John Barran (LIB) William Lawies Jackson (CON)
Leicester	Peter Alfred Taylor (LIB) Alexander McArthur (LIB)
Leith District of Burghs	Andrew Grant (LIB)
Leitrim County	Arthur Loftus Tottenham (CON) Francis O'Beirne (HR)
Leominster	James Rankin (CON)
Lewes	William Langham Christie (CON)
Lichfield	Richard Dyott (CON)
Limerick City	Richard O'Shaughnessy (HR) Daniel FitzGerald Gabbett (HR)
Limerick County	William Henry O'Sullivan (HR) Edward John Synan (HR)
Lincoln	Charles Seely (LIB) John Hinde Palmer (LIB)
Linlithgowshire	Peter McLagan (LIB)
Lisburn	Sir Richard Wallace, Bt (CON)
Liskeard	Leonard Henry Courtney (LIB)
Liverpool	Rt Hon Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, Viscount Sandon (CON) Edward Whitley (CON) John William Ramsay, Baron Ramsay (LIB)
London University	Rt Hon Robert Lowe (LIB)
Londonderry City	Charles Edward Lewis (CON)
Londonderry County	Rt Hon Hugh Law (LIB) Sir Thomas McClure, Bt (LIB)
Longford County	Justin McCarthy (HR) George Errington (HR)
Louth County	Philip Callan (HR) Alexander Martin Sullivan (HR)
Ludlow	Hon George Herbert Windsor Windsor-Clive (CON)
Lymington	Edmund Hegan Kennard (CON)
Macclesfield	William Coare Brocklehurst (LIB) David Chadwick (LIB)
Maidstone	Alexander Henry Ross (CON) John Evans Freke-Aylmer (CON)
Maldon	George Courtauld (LIB)
Mallow	William Moore Johnson (LIB)
Malmesbury	Walter Powell (CON)
Malton	Hon Charles William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (LIB)
Manchester	John Slagg (LIB) Jacob Bright (LIB) Hugh Birley (CON)
Marlborough	Lord Charles William Brudenell-Bruce (LIB)
Marylebone	Daniel Grant (LIB) Sir Thomas Chambers (LIB)
Mayo County	John O'Connor Power (HR) Charles Stewart Parnell (HR)
Meath County	Charles Stewart Parnell (HR) Robert Henry Metge (HR)
Merionethshire	Samuel Holland (LIB)
Merthyr Tydvil	Henry Richard (LIB) Charles Herbert James (LIB)
Mid Cheshire	Hon Wilbraham Egerton (CON) Piers Egerton-Warburton (CON)
Mid Kent	Sir William Hart Dyke, Bt (CON) Sir Edmund Filmer, Bt (CON)
Mid Lincolnshire	Henry Chaplin (CON) Hon Edward Stanhope (CON)
Mid Somerset	Richard Horner Paget (CON) William Stephen Gore-Langton (CON)
Mid Surrey	Sir Henry William Peek, Bt (CON) Sir James John Trevor Lawrence, Bt (CON)
Middlesbrough	Isaac Wilson (LIB)
Middlesex	Rt Hon Lord George Francis Hamilton (CON) Octavius Edward Coope (CON)
Midhurst	Sir Henry Thurstan Holland, Bt (CON)
Monaghan County	John Givan (LIB) William Findlater (LIB)
Monmouth District of Boroughs	Edward Hamer Carbutt (LIB)
Monmouthshire	Hon Frederic Courtenay Morgan (CON) John Allan Rolls (CON)
Montgomery District of Boroughs	Hon Frederick Stephen Archibald Hanbury-Tracy (LIB)
Montgomeryshire	Stuart Rendel (LIB)
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	Joseph William Foley (LIB)
Newark-on-Trent	Thomas Earp (LIB) William Newman Nicholson (CON)
Newcastle upon Tyne	Joseph Cowen (LIB) Ashton Wentworth Dilke (LIB)
Newcastle-under-Lyme	Charles Donaldson-Hudson (CON) William Shepherd Allen (LIB)
Newport	Charles Cavendish Clifford (LIB)
Newry	Henry Thomson (CON)
North Eastern Lancashire	Rt Hon Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington (LIB) Frederick William Grafton (LIB)
North Riding, Yorkshire	Frederick Acclom Milbank (LIB) William Reginald Duncombe, Viscount Helmsley (CON)
Northallerton	George William Elliot (CON)
Northampton	Henry du Pre Labouchere (LIB) Charles Bradlaugh (LIB)
Northern Ayrshire	Robert William Cochran-Patrick (CON)
Northern Derbyshire	Lord Edward Cavendish (LIB) Jonathan Frederick Cheetham (LIB)
Northern Devon	Rt Hon Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Bt (CON) Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt (LIB)
Northern Durham	John Joicey (LIB) Charles Mark Palmer (LIB)
Northern Hampshire	William Withey Bramston Beach (CON) Rt Hon George Sclater Booth (CON)
Northern Lanarkshire	Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke, Bt (LIB)
Northern Lancashire	Rt Hon Frederick Arthur Stanley (CON) Randle Joseph Feilden (CON)
Northern Leicestershire	Rt Hon Lord John James Robert Manners (CON) Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (CON)
Northern Lincolnshire	Robert Laycock (LIB) Rowland Winn (CON)
Northern Norfolk	Sir Edmund Henry Knowles Lacon, Bt (CON) Edward Birkbeck (CON)
Northern Northamptonshire	Charles Robert Spencer (LIB) Brownlow Henry George Cecil, Baron Burghley (CON)
Northern Northumberland	Rt Hon Henry George Percy, Earl Percy (CON) Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt (CON)
Northern Nottinghamshire	Cecil George Savile Foljambe (LIB) George Edmund Milnes Monckton-Arundell, Viscount Galway (CON)
Northern Shropshire	George Cecil Orlando Bridgeman, Viscount Newport (CON) Stanley Leighton (CON)
Northern Staffordshire	William Young Craig (LIB) Harry Tichborne Davenport (CON)
Northern Warwickshire	Charles Newdigate Newdegate (CON) William Bromley Davenport (CON)
Northern West Riding, Yorkshire	Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish (LIB) Sir Mathew Wilson, Bt (LIB)
Northern Wiltshire	Walter Hume Long (CON) George Thomas John Sotheron-Estcourt (CON)
Norwich	Jeremiah James Colman (LIB) Jacob Henry Tillett (LIB)
Nottingham	Charles Seely (LIB) John Skirrow Wright (LIB)
Oldham	John Tomlinson Hibbert (LIB) Hon Edward Lyulph Stanley (LIB)
Orkney & Shetland	Samuel Laing (LIB)
Oxford	Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon-Harcourt (LIB) Joseph William Chitty (LIB)
Oxford University	Rt Hon John Robert Mowbray (CON) John Gilbert Talbot (CON)
Oxfordshire	John Sidney North (CON) William Cornwallis Cartwright (LIB) Edward William Vernon Harcourt (CON)
Paisley	William Holms (LIB)
Peeblesshire & Selkirkshire	Charles Tennant (LIB)
Pembroke District of Boroughs	Henry George Allen (LIB)
Pembrokeshire	William Davies (LIB)
Penryn & Falmouth	David James Jenkins (LIB) Hon Reginald Baliol Brett (LIB)
Perth	Charles Stuart Parker (LIB)
Perthshire	Sir Donald Currie (LIB)
Peterborough	Hon William John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (Ind LIB) George Hampden Whalley (LIB)
Petersfield	William Nicholson (LIB)
Plymouth	Edward Bates (CON) Peter Stewart Macliver (LIB)
Pontefract	Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (LIB) Solomon Rees Sidney Woolf (LIB)
Poole	Charles Schreiber (CON)
Portarlington	Hon Bernard Edward Barnaby Fitzpatrick (CON)
Portsmouth	Hon Thomas Charles Bruce (CON) Sir Henry Drummond Wolff (CON)
Preston	Edward Hermon (CON) Sir John Holker (CON)
Queen's County	Richard Lalor (HR) Arthur O'Connor (HR)
Radnorshire	Sir Richard Green-Price, Bt (LIB)
Reading	George Palmer (LIB) George John Shaw-Lefevre (LIB)
Renfrewshire	William Mure (LIB)
Richmond	Hon John Charles Dundas (LIB)
Ripon	George Joachim Goschen (LIB)
Rochdale	Thomas Bayley Potter (LIB)
Rochester	Arthur John Otway (LIB) Roger Leigh (CON)
Roscommon County	Dr Andrew Commins (HR) James Joseph O'Kelly (HR)
Ross & Cromarty	Alexander Matheson (LIB)
Roxburghshire	Hon Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (LIB)
Rutlandshire	George Henry Finch (CON) Hon Gerard James Noel (CON)
Rye	Frederick Andrew Inderwick (LIB)
Salford	Benjamin Armitage (LIB) Arthur Arnold (LIB)
Salisbury	William Henry Grenfell (LIB) John Passmore Edwards (LIB)
Sandwich	Henry Arthur Brassey (LIB) Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen (LIB)
Scarborough	Sir Harcourt Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, bt (LIB) William Sproston Caine (LIB)
Shaftesbury	Hon Sidney Carr Glyn (LIB)
Sheffield	Anthony John Mundella (LIB) Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley (CON)
Shoreham	Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell, Bt (CON) Robert Loder (CON)
Shrewsbury	Charles Cecil Cotes (LIB) Henry Robertson (LIB)
Sligo County	Thomas Sexton (HR) Denis Maurice O'Conor (HR)
South Eastern Lancashire	Robert Leake (LIB) William Agnew (LIB)
South Shields	James Cochran Stevenson (LIB)
South Western Lancashire	Rt Hon Richard Assheton Cross (CON) John Ireland Blackburne (CON)
Southampton	Henry Lee (LIB) Charles Parker Butt (LIB)
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) Hon Frederick William Lambton (LIB)
Southern Essex	Thomas Charles Baring (CON) William Thomas Makins (CON)
Southern Hampshire	Lord Henry John Montagu-Douglas-Scott (CON) Francis Compton (CON)
Southern Lanarkshire	John Glencairn Carter Hamilton (LIB)
Southern Leicestershire	Thomas Tertius Paget (LIB) Albert Pell (CON)
Southern Lincolnshire	John Compton Lawrance (CON) Sir William Earle Welby-Gregory, Bt (CON)
Southern Norfolk	Sir Robert Jacob Buxton, Bt (CON) Robert Thornhagh Gurdon (LIB)
Southern Northamptonshire	Sir Rainald Knightley, Bt (CON) Fairfax William Cartwright (CON)
Southern Northumberland	Albert Henry George Grey (LIB) Wentworth Blackett Beaumont (LIB)
Southern Nottinghamshire	George Storer (CON) Thomas Blackburne Thornton Hildyard (CON)
Southern Shropshire	Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bt (CON) John Edmund Severne (CON)
Southern Warwickshire	Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, Bt (CON) Hon Gilbert Henry Chandos Leigh (LIB)
Southern West Riding, Yorkshire	Hon William Henry Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (LIB) William Henry Leatham (LIB)
Southern Wiltshire	Lord Henry Frederick Thynne (CON) William Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone (CON)
Southwark	Arthur Cohen (LIB) Prof James Edwin Thorold Rogers (LIB)
St Andrews District of Burghs	Stephen Williamson (LIB)
St Ives	Sir Charles Reed (LIB)
Stafford	Charles Benjamin Bright McLaren (LIB) Alexander Macdonald (LIB/LAB)
Stalybridge	William Summers (LIB)
Stamford	Marston Clarke Buszard (LIB)
Stirling District of Burghs	Henry Campbell-Bannerman (LIB)
Stirlingshire	Joseph Cheney Bolton (LIB)
Stockport	Charles Henry Hopwood (LIB) Frederick Pennington (LIB)
Stockton-on-Tees	Joseph Dodds (LIB)
Stoke-on-Trent	William Woodall (LIB) Henry Broadhurst (LIB/LAB)
Stroud	Walter John Stanton (LIB) Henry Robert Brand (LIB)
Sunderland	Edward Temperley Gourley (LIB) Sir Henry Marsham Havelock-Allan, Bt (LIB)
Sutherland	Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Marquess of Stafford (LIB)
Swansea District of Boroughs	Lewis Llewellyn Dillwyn (LIB)
Tamworth	Hamar Alfred Bass (LIB) Jabez Spencer Balfour (LIB)
Taunton	Sir William Palliser (CON) Sir Henry James (LIB)
Tavistock	Lord Arthur John Edward Russell (LIB)
Tewkesbury	William Edwin Price (LIB)
The Hartlepools	Thomas Richardson (LIB)
Thirsk	Hon Lewis Payn Dawnay (CON)
Tipperary County	Patrick James Smyth (HR) John Dillon (HR)
Tiverton	Sir John Heathcoat Heathcoat-Amory, Bt (LIB) William Nathaniel Massey (LIB)
Tower Hamlets	James Bryce (LIB) Charles Thomson Ritchie (CON)
Tralee	Daniel O'Donoghue, The O'Donoghue (HR)
Truro	Sir James Macnaghten McGarel-Hogg, Bt (CON) Edward Brydges Willyams (LIB)
Tynemouth & North Shields	Thomas Eustace Smith (LIB)
Tyrone County	John William Ellison-Macartney (CON) Edward Falconer Litton (LIB)
Wakefield	Robert Bownas Mackie (LIB)
Wallingford	Walter Wren (LIB)
Walsall	Sir Charles Forster, Bt (LIB)
Wareham	Montague John Guest (LIB)
Warrington	John Gordon McMinnies (LIB)
Warwick	Arthur Wellesley Peel (LIB) George William John Repton (CON)
Waterford City	Richard Power (HR) Edmund Leamy (HR (P))
Waterford County	Henry Windsor Villiers-Stuart (LIB) John Aloysius Blake (HR)
Wednesbury	Alexander Brogden (LIB)
Wenlock	Alexander Hargreaves Brown (LIB) Cecil Theodore Weld-Forester (CON)
Westbury	Charles Nicholas Paul Phipps (CON)
Western Aberdeenshire	Dr Robert Farquharson (LIB)
Western Cheshire	Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bt (CON) Hon Wilbraham Frederick Tollemache (CON)
Western Cornwall	Sir John St Aubyn, Bt (LIB) Arthur Pendarves Vivian (LIB)
Western Cumberland	David Ainsworth (LIB) Hon Percy Scawen Wyndham (CON)
Western Essex	Sir Henry John Selwyn-Ibbetson, Bt (CON) Lord Eustace Henry Brownlow Gascoyne-Cecil (CON)
Western Gloucestershire	Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (LIB) Henry Haughton Reynolds-Moreton, Baron Moreton (LIB)
Western Kent	Sir Charles Henry Mills, bt (CON) William Heneage Legge, Viscount Lewisham (CON)
Western Norfolk	William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (CON) George William Pierrepont Bentinck (CON)
Western Somerset	Vaughan Hanning Vaughan-Lee (CON) Mordaunt Fenwick Bisset (CON)
Western Staffordshire	Alexander Staveley Hill (CON) Francis Monckton (CON)
Western Suffolk	Thomas Thornhill (CON) William Biddell (CON)
Western Surrey	George Cubitt (CON) Hon William St John Fremantle Brodrick (CON)
Western Sussex	Sir Walter Barttelot Barttelot, Bt (CON) Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March (CON)
Western Worcestershire	Sir Edmund Anthony Harley Lechmere, Bt (CON) Frederic Winn Knight (CON)
Westmeath County	Timothy Daniel Sullivan (HR (P)) Henry Joseph Gill (HR (P))
Westminster	Rt Hon William Henry Smith (CON) Sir Charles Russell, Bt (CON)
Westmorland	Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective (CON) Hon William Lowther (CON)
Wexford	William Archer Redmond (HR)
Wexford County	John Barry (HR) Garrett Michael Byrne (HR)
Weymouth & Melcombe Regis	Henry Edwards (LIB) Sir Frederick John William Johnstone, Bt (CON)
Whitby	Arthur Pease (LIB)
Whitehaven	Rt Hon George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (CON)
Wick District of Burghs	John Pender (LIB)
Wicklow County	William Joseph Corbet (HR) James Carlile McCoan (HR)
Wigan	James Ludovic Lindsay, Baron Lindsay (CON) Thomas Knowles (CON)
Wigtown District of Burghs	John McLaren (LIB)
Wigtownshire	Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, Bt (CON)
Wilton	Hon Sidney Herbert (CON)
Winchester	Francis George Baring, Viscount Baring (LIB) Richard Moss (CON)
Windsor	Robert Richardson-Gardner (CON)
Wolverhampton	Rt Hon Charles Pelham Villiers (LIB) Henry Hartley Fowler (LIB)
Woodstock	Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (CON)
Worcester	Thomas Rowley Hill (LIB) ?neas John McIntyre (LIB)
Wycombe	Hon William Henry Peregrine Carington (LIB)
York	Ralph Creyke (LIB) Joseph Johnson Leeman (LIB)
Youghal	Sir Joseph Neale McKenna (HR)

Date Parliament Summoned: 29 April 1880

By-Elections
7 May 1880	Bath	Sir Arthur Divett Hayter, Bt (LIB)
7 May 1880	Birmingham	Rt Hon John Bright (LIB) Rt Hon Joseph Chamberlain (LIB)
7 May 1880	Bradford	Rt Hon William Edward Forster (LIB)
7 May 1880	Chester	Rt Hon John George Dodson (LIB)
7 May 1880	Hackney	Rt Hon Prof Henry Fawcett (LIB) John Holms (LIB)
7 May 1880	Kidderminster	John Brinton (LIB)
8 May 1880	Durham	Sir Farrer Herschell (LIB)
8 May 1880	Hastings	Thomas Brassey (LIB)
8 May 1880	Leeds	Herbert John Gladstone (LIB)
8 May 1880	Marlborough	Lord Charles William Brudenell-Bruce (LIB)
8 May 1880	Nottingham	Arnold Morley (LIB)
8 May 1880	Oxford	Alexander William Hall (CON)
8 May 1880	Pontefract	Rt Hon Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (LIB)
8 May 1880	Sheffield	Rt Hon Anthony John Mundella (LIB)
8 May 1880	Taunton	Sir Henry James (LIB)
10 May 1880	Edinburghshire	Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone (LIB)
10 May 1880	Shrewsbury	Charles Cecil Cotes (LIB)
12 May 1880	Haverfordwest District of Boroughs	Hon William Edwardes, Baron Kensington (LIB)
13 May 1880	Clackmannanshire & Kinross-shire	Rt Hon William Patrick Adam (LIB)
14 May 1880	Denbighshire	George Osborne Morgan (LIB)
15 May 1880	North Eastern Lancashire	Rt Hon Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington (LIB)
17 May 1880	Mallow	William Moore Johnson (LIB)
17 May 1880	New Radnor District of Boroughs	Samuel Charles Evan Williams (LIB)
19 May 1880	Sandwich	Charles Henry Crompton-Roberts (CON)
20 May 1880	Londonderry County	Rt Hon Hugh Law (LIB)
20 May 1880	Meath County	Alexander Martin Sullivan (HR)
20 May 1880	Wigtown District of Burghs	Mark John Stewart (CON)
24 May 1880	Mayo County	Rev Isaac Nelson (HR)
25 May 1880	Derby	Rt Hon Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon-Harcourt (LIB)
26 May 1880	Wycombe	Hon William Henry Peregrine Carington (LIB)
28 May 1880	Louth County	Alan Henry Bellingham (HR)
2 June 1880	London University	Sir John Lubbock, Bt (LIB)
25 June 1880	Bandon	Richard Lane Allman (LIB)
25 June 1880	Dungannon	James Dickson (LIB)
1 July 1880	Gravesend	Sir Sydney Hedley Waterlow, Bt (LIB)
1 July 1880	Wallingford	Pandeli Toumazis Ralli (LIB)
6 July 1880	Bute	Charles Dalrymple (CON)
9 July 1880	Evesham	Augustus Frederick Lehmann (LIB)
10 July 1880	Plymouth	Edward George Clarke (CON)
12 July 1880	Bewdley	Enoch Baldwin (LIB)
12 July 1880	Tewkesbury	Richard Biddulph Martin (LIB)
15 July 1880	Lichfield	Theophilus John Levett (CON)
19 July 1880	Berwick-upon-Tweed	David Milne Home (CON)
31 July 1880	Scarborough	John George Dodson (LIB)
2 August 1880	Wigtown District of Burghs	Rt Hon Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay, Bt (CON)
6 August 1880	Liverpool	Lord Claud John Hamilton (CON)
24 November 1880	Wexford	Timothy Michael Healy (HR)
29 November 1880	Clackmannanshire & Kinross-shire	Rt Hon John Blair Balfour (LIB)
30 November 1880	Renfrewshire	Alexander Crum (LIB)
2 December 1880	Carnarvonshire	William Rathbone (LIB)
15 December 1880	Reading	George John Shaw-Lefevre (LIB)
16 December 1880	Kendal	James Cropper (LIB)
20 January 1881	Wigan	Francis Sharp Powell (CON)
27 January 1881	Edinburgh	Rt Hon John McLaren (LIB)
31 January 1881	New Ross	John Edward Redmond (HR)
15 February 1881	Southern Northamptonshire	Pickering Phipps (CON)
26 February 1881	Eastern Cumberland	George James Howard (LIB)
12 March 1881	Coventry	Henry William Eaton (CON)
12 April 1881	Northampton	Charles Bradlaugh (LIB)
12 April 1881	Sunderland	Samuel Storey (LIB)
13 April 1881	St Ives	Charles Campbell Ross (CON)
22 April 1881	Western Cheshire	Henry James Tollemache (CON)
12 May 1881	Knaresborough	Thomas Collins (CON)
23 May 1881	Preston	William Farrer Ecroyd (CON)
13 July 1881	Elgin District of Burghs	Alexander Asher (LIB)
23 August 1881	Edinburgh	Thomas Ryburn Buchanan (LIB)
23 August 1881	Leeds	Herbert John Gladstone (LIB)
25 August 1881	Elgin District of Burghs	Alexander Asher (LIB)
1 September 1881	Northern Lincolnshire	Rt Hon James Lowther (CON)
2 September 1881	Northern Durham	Sir George Elliot, Bt (CON)
7 September 1881	Cambridgeshire	James Redfoord Bulwer (CON)
7 September 1881	Tyrone County	Thomas Alexander Dickson (LIB)
26 October 1881	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham (LIB)
15 November 1881	Tiverton	Hugh Fortescue, Viscount Ebrington (LIB)
21 November 1881	Stafford	Thomas Salt (CON)
10 December 1881	Londonderry County	Rt Hon Andrew Marshall Porter (LIB)
7 January 1882	Carmarthen District of Boroughs	Sir John Jones Jenkins (LIB)
26 January 1882	North Riding, Yorkshire	Hon Guy Cuthbert Dawnay (CON)
4 February 1882	Preston	Henry Cecil Raikes (CON)
10 February 1882	Westminster	Lord Algernon Malcolm Arthur Percy (CON)
17 February 1882	Taunton	Samuel Charles Allsopp (CON)
22 February 1882	Meath County	Michael Davitt (HR)
4 March 1882	Northampton	Charles Bradlaugh (LIB)
7 March 1882	Malmesbury	Charles William Miles (CON)
30 March 1882	Carnarvon District of Boroughs	Thomas Love Duncombe Jones-Parry (LIB)
31 March 1882	Eastern Cornwall	Charles Thomas Dyke Acland (LIB)
14 April 1882	Meath County	Edward Sheil (HR)
26 April 1882	Western Somerset	Edward James Stanley (CON)
17 May 1882	Hawick District of Burghs	Rt Hon George Otto Trevelyan (LIB)
20 May 1882	Northern West Riding, Yorkshire	Isaac Holden (LIB)
19 June 1882	Banffshire	Robert William Duff (LIB)
19 August 1882	Halifax	Thomas Shaw (LIB)
22 August 1882	Haddington District of Burghs	Alexander Craig Sellar (LIB)
3 November 1882	Edinburgh	Samuel Danks Waddy (LIB)
14 November 1882	Ennis	Matthew Joseph Kenny (HR)
21 November 1882	Salisbury	Coleridge John Kennard (CON)
25 November 1882	Preston	William Edward Murray Tomlinson (CON)
28 November 1882	Cambridge University	Rt Hon Henry Cecil Raikes (CON)
4 December 1882	Wigan	Hon Algernon Fulke Egerton (CON)
8 December 1882	Chelsea	Rt Hon Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bt (LIB)
11 December 1882	Liverpool	Samuel Smith (LIB)
25 January 1883	Mallow	William O'Brien (HR)
5 February 1883	Haddingtonshire	Hugo Richard Charteris, Baron Elcho (CON)
24 February 1883	Newcastle upon Tyne	John Morley (LIB)
24 February 1883	Westmeath County	Timothy Charles Harrington (HR)
27 February 1883	Dublin County	Edward Robert King-Harman (CON)
28 February 1883	Portarlington	Robert Abraham Brewster French-Brewster (CON)
12 March 1883	Wycombe	Gerard Smith (LIB)
16 March 1883	Mid Cheshire	Hon Alan de Tatton Egerton (CON)
20 March 1883	Tipperary County	Thomas Mayne (HR)
7 April 1883	Southampton	Alfred Giles (CON)
11 June 1883	Derby	Thomas Roe (LIB)
13 June 1883	Wexford County	John Francis Small (HR)
16 June 1883	Northern Leicestershire	Hon Montagu Curzon (CON)
23 June 1883	Peterborough	Sydney Charles Buxton (LIB)
29 June 1883	Hastings	Henry Bret Ince (LIB)
30 June 1883	Monaghan County	Timothy Michael Healy (HR)
17 July 1883	Wexford	William Hoey Kearney Redmond (HR)
18 August 1883	Sligo County	Nicholas Lynch (HR)
25 August 1883	Eastern Essex	Hon Charles Hedley Strutt (CON)
1 September 1883	Rutlandshire	James William Lowther (CON)
4 October 1883	Manchester	William Henry Houldsworth (CON)
19 November 1883	Limerick City	Edward MacMahon (HR)
23 November 1883	York	Sir Frederick George Milner, Bt (CON)
12 December 1883	Ipswich	Henry Wyndham West (LIB)
21 December 1883	Wigan	Nathaniel Eckersley (CON)
10 January 1884	Londonderry County	Samuel Walker (LIB)
15 February 1884	Paisley	Stewart Clark (LIB)
18 February 1884	Western Somerset	Charles Isaac Elton (CON)
20 February 1884	Western Norfolk	Clare Sewell Read (CON)
21 February 1884	Meath County	William Meagher (HR)
21 February 1884	Northampton	Charles Bradlaugh (LIB)
23 February 1884	Cork City	John Deasy (HR)
28 February 1884	Southern Lincolnshire	Hon Murray Edward Gordon Finch-Hatton (CON)
1 March 1884	Brighton	William Thackeray Marriott (CON)
21 March 1884	Cambridgeshire	Arthur John Thornhill (CON)
21 March 1884	Huntingdon	Rt Hon Sir Robert Peel (CON)
19 April 1884	Poole	William James Harris (CON)
14 May 1884	Mid Kent	Hon John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy (CON)
12 June 1884	Athlone	Justin Huntley McCarthy (HR)
14 June 1884	Lincoln	Joseph Ruston (LIB)
20 June 1884	Southern Hampshire	Sir Frederick Wellington John Fitz Wygram, Bt (CON)
23 June 1884	Mid Surrey	Sir John Whittaker Ellis, Bt (CON)
26 June 1884	Leicester	James Allanson Picton (LIB)
3 July 1884	Northern Warwickshire	Philip Albert Muntz (CON)
14 August 1884	Southern Devon	John Tremayne (CON)
21 August 1884	Waterford County	Patrick Joseph Power (N)
22 August 1884	Ross & Cromarty	Ronald Crauford Munro Ferguson (LIB)
30 October 1884	New Radnor District of Boroughs	Charles Coltman Rogers (LIB)
31 October 1884	Stirling District of Burghs	Henry Campbell-Bannerman (LIB)
5 November 1884	Scarborough	Richard Fell Steble (LIB)
10 November 1884	Southern Warwickshire	Sampson Samuel Lloyd (CON)
19 November 1884	Hackney	Prof James Stuart (LIB)
26 November 1884	Greenock	Thomas Sutherland (LIB)
27 November 1884	Down County	Richard William Blackwood Ker (CON)
28 November 1884	Scarborough	William Sproston Caine (LIB)
9 December 1884	Knaresborough	Robert Gunter (CON)
9 January 1885	Tipperary County	John O'Connor (HR)
4 March 1885	Mid Somerset	John Kenelm Digby Wingfield-Digby (CON)
10 March 1885	Western Gloucestershire	Benjamin St John Ackers (CON)
11 March 1885	Glasgow	Thomas Russell (LIB)
21 May 1885	Antrim County	William Pirrie Sinclair (LIB)
27 May 1885	Denbighshire	Sir Herbert Lloyd Watkin Williams Wynn, bt (CON)
29 June 1885	Hertford	Rt Hon Arthur James Balfour (CON)
29 June 1885	Westminster	Rt Hon William Henry Smith (CON)
30 June 1885	Dublin University	Rt Hon David Robert Plunket (CON) Rt Hon Hugh Holmes (CON)
1 July 1885	Eastern Gloucestershire	Rt Hon Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, Bt (CON)
1 July 1885	Eye	Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (CON)
1 July 1885	Launceston	Richard Everard Webster (CON)
1 July 1885	Mid Kent	Sir William Hart Dyke, Bt (CON)
1 July 1885	Mid Lincolnshire	Rt Hon Henry Chaplin (CON) Rt Hon Edward Stanhope (CON)
1 July 1885	Northern Lancashire	Rt Hon Frederick Arthur Stanley (CON)
1 July 1885	Northern Leicestershire	Rt Hon Lord John James Robert Manners (CON)
1 July 1885	South Western Lancashire	Rt Hon Sir Richard Assheton Cross (CON)
2 July 1885	Bute	Charles Dalrymple (CON)
2 July 1885	Northern Devon	John Curzon Moore-Stevens (CON)
2 July 1885	Wilton	Hon Sidney Herbert (CON)
3 July 1885	Middlesex	Rt Hon Lord George Francis Hamilton (CON)
3 July 1885	Southern Wiltshire	William Pleydell-Bouverie, Viscount Folkestone (CON)
4 July 1885	Eastern Devon	William Hood Walrond (CON)
4 July 1885	Wakefield	Edward Green (CON)
4 July 1885	Western Kent	Rt Hon William Heneage Legge, Viscount Lewisham (CON)
6 July 1885	Woodstock	Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (CON)
8 July 1885	Down County	Lord Arthur William Hill (CON)
10 July 1885	Brighton	Rt Hon William Thackeray Marriott (CON)
10 July 1885	Northern Lincolnshire	Henry John Atkinson (CON)
11 July 1885	Chatham	John Eldon Gorst (CON)
16 July 1885	Horsham	Sir Henry Fletcher, Bt (CON)
17 July 1885	Aylesbury	Baron Ferdinand James de Rothschild (LIB)

Petitions Resulting in New MP(s)
6 January 1881	Evesham	Frederick Dixon Dixon-Hartland (CON)

Date Parliament Dissolved: 19 November 1885

Reason for Dissolution: The Marquess of Salisbury requested a Dissolution five months after being appointed Prime Minister