29 June–22 July 1841 1847 → 16 July 1834 15 April 1840 344 seats, 51.7% N/A Start date 1841 | 19 December 1834 16 July 1834 314 seats, 48.3% 344 seats, 51.7% 367 271 | |
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In the 1841 United Kingdom general election, there was a big swing as Sir Robert Peel's Conservatives took control of the House of Commons. The Whigs lost votes to the Irish Repeal group. The Chartists picked up only a few votes despite their popular support, because voting was still restricted to a small percentage of the population. Only 3.17% of the total population voted. It is regarded as having been one of the most corrupt elections in British parliamentary history, the Westminster Review stating that the “annals of parliamentary warfare contained no page more stained with the foulness of corruption and falsehood than that which relates the history of the general election in the year 1841.”
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Results
Total votes: 593,445
Great Britain
England
Scotland
Wales
Whig MPs who lost their seats
References
United Kingdom general election, 1841 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA