United Kingdom general elections
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This is a list of United Kingdom general elections since 1802. For by-election results see List of UK by-elections. For information on UK elections in general, see Elections in the United Kingdom.
Election results
Note that all elections until 1832 had very restricted suffrage, until 1918 it remained non-universal.
| Election | Date | Consequent Prime Minister(s) | Party | Majority |
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| 1801 (MPs) | ||||
| 1802 (MPs) | 22 July 1802 | Henry Addington William Pitt the Younger | Tory | |
| 1806 (MPs) | 17 November 1806 | The Lord Grenville | Whig | |
| 1807 (MPs) | The Duke of Portland Spencer Perceval The Earl of Liverpool | Tory | ||
| 1818 (MPs) | The Earl of Liverpool | Tory | ||
| 1821 (MPs) | 16 January 1821 | The Earl of Liverpool | Tory | |
| 1826 (MPs) | 19 June 1826 | The Earl of Liverpool George Canning The Viscount Goderich The Duke of Wellington | Tory | |
| 1830 (MPs) | 9 August 1830 | The Earl Grey | Whig | |
| 1831 (MPs) | 25 July 1831 | The Earl Grey | Whig | |
| At this point, the Reform Act 1832 gave suffrage to propertied male adults and disenfranchised almost all of the rotten boroughs. | ||||
| 1832 (MPs) | 7 December 1832 | The Earl Grey The Viscount Melbourne Robert Peel | Whig | |
| 1835 (MPs) | The Viscount Melbourne | Whig | ||
| 1837 (MPs) | The Viscount Melbourne | Whig | ||
| 1841 (MPs) | Robert Peel | Conservative | ||
| 1847 (MPs) | 9 August 1847 | Lord John Russell | Whig | |
| 1852 (MPs) | The Earl of Derby The Earl of Aberdeen | Conservative | ||
| 1857 (MPs) | The Viscount Palmerston | Liberal | ||
| 1859 (MPs) | 16 May 1859 | The Viscount Palmerston | Liberal | |
| 1865 (MPs) | The Earl Russell The Earl of Derby Benjamin Disraeli | Liberal | ||
| 1868 (MPs) | William Ewart Gladstone | |||
| 1874 (MPs) | Benjamin Disraeli | Conservative | ||
| 1880 (MPs) | April 1880 | William Ewart Gladstone | Liberal | |
| 1885 (MPs) | The Marquess of Salisbury William Ewart Gladstone | |||
| 1886 (MPs) | The Marquess of Salisbury | Conservative | ||
| 1892 (MPs) | William Ewart Gladstone The Earl of Rosebery | Liberal | ||
| 1895 (MPs) | The Marquess of Salisbury | Conservative | ||
| 1900 (MPs) | The Marquess of Salisbury Arthur Balfour | Conservative | ||
| 1906 (MPs) | Henry Campbell-Bannerman Herbert Henry Asquith | Liberal | ||
| January 1910 (MPs) | Herbert Henry Asquith | Liberal | ||
| December 1910 (MPs) | Herbert Henry Asquith David Lloyd George | Liberal | ||
| At this point, the Representation of the People Act 1918 gave suffrage to most of the adult population (men over 21, women over 30). | ||||
| 1918 (MPs) | December 14, 1918 | David Lloyd George | Liberal (Coalition Government) | 238 |
| 1922 (MPs) | November 15, 1922 | Andrew Bonar Law Stanley Baldwin | Conservative | 74 |
| 1923 (MPs) | December 6, 1923 | James Ramsay MacDonald | Labour | −98 |
| 1924 (MPs) | October 29, 1924 | Stanley Baldwin | Conservative | 210 |
| At this point, the Representation of the People Act 1928 gave Universal suffrage to the adult population over 21. | ||||
| 1929 (MPs) | May 30, 1929 | James Ramsay MacDonald | Labour | −42 |
| 1931 (MPs) | October 27, 1931 | James Ramsay MacDonald | National Labour (National Government) | 492 |
| 1935 (MPs) | November 14, 1935 | Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill | Conservative (National Government) | 242 |
| 1945 (MPs) | July 5, 1945 | Clement Attlee | Labour | 146 |
| 1950 (MPs) | February 23, 1950 | Clement Attlee | Labour | 5 |
| 1951 (MPs) | October 25, 1951 | Sir Winston Churchill | Conservative | 17 |
| 1955 (MPs) | May 26, 1955 | Sir Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan | Conservative | 54 |
| 1959 (MPs) | October 8, 1959 | Harold Macmillan The Earl of Home | Conservative | 100 |
| 1964 (MPs) | October 15, 1964 | Harold Wilson | Labour | 5 |
| 1966 (MPs) | March 31, 1966 | Harold Wilson | Labour | 96 |
| 1970 (MPs) | June 18, 1970 | Edward Heath | Conservative | 31 |
| At this point, the Representation of the People Act 1969 gave suffrage to the adult population over 18. | ||||
| February 1974 (MPs) | February 28, 1974 | Harold Wilson | Labour | −33 |
| October 1974 (MPs) | October 10, 1974 | Harold Wilson James Callaghan | Labour | 3 |
| 1979 (MPs) | May 3, 1979 | Margaret Thatcher | Conservative | 43 |
| 1983 (MPs) | June 9, 1983 | Margaret Thatcher | Conservative | 144 |
| 1987 (MPs) | June 11, 1987 | Margaret Thatcher John Major | Conservative | 102 |
| 1992 (MPs) | April 9, 1992 | John Major | Conservative | 21 |
| 1997 (MPs) | May 1, 1997 | Tony Blair | Labour | 179 |
| 2001 (MPs) | June 7, 2001 | Tony Blair | Labour | 167 |
| 2005 (MPs) | May 5, 2005 | Tony Blair | Labour | 66 |
Note: A negative majority means that there was a hung parliament (or minority parliament) following that election. For example, in the 1929 election, Labour was 42 seats short of forming a majority, and so its majority is listed as −42.