1874 United Kingdom general election in Ireland
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1874 United Kingdom general election The 1874 United Kingdom general election saw the incumbent Liberals, led by William Gladstone, lose decisively, even though it won a majority of the votes cast. Benjamin Disraeli's Conservatives won the majority of seats in the House of Commo ...
in Ireland produced the first major electoral appearance of the
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under chairman
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. The party's electoral success, in which it won 60 MPs, taking control of
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electoral politics from the previously dominant
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and the
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parties was the beginning of a dominance that was to see the party as the
Irish Parliamentary Party The Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP; commonly called the Irish Party or the Home Rule Party) was formed in 1874 by Isaac Butt, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish national ...
control the political landscape in Ireland until its wipeout in the 1918 general election in Ireland. However its success in 1874 was marred by the lack of unity within the party in the
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, where many of its members in effect sat as Liberal MPs and voted against their own Irish colleagues. It was not until then chairman
Charles Stewart Parnell Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1875 to 1891, also acting as Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882 and then Leader of the ...
in the early 1880s introduced a strict
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that the party began to exercise serious influence, and act as a unit, in
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.


Results

Not included in the results is the Dublin University constituency, which returned two Conservatives to parliament.


See also

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History of Ireland (1801–1923) Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1922. For almost all of this period, the island was governed by the UK Parliament in London through its Dublin Castle administration in Ireland. Ireland underwent c ...


Sources

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F. W. S. Craig Frederick Walter Scott Craig (10 December 1929 – 23 March 1989) was a Scottish psephologist and compiler of the standard reference books covering United Kingdom Parliamentary election results. He originally worked in public relations, compilin ...
, ''British Electoral Facts: 1832–1987''


References

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