1865 United Kingdom general election in Ireland

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11–24 July 1865 (1865-07-11 – 1865-07-24)

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105 of the 658 seats to the House of Commons

	First party	Second party

Leader	Viscount Palmerston	Earl of Derby
Party	Liberal	Conservative
Leader since	6 February 1855	July 1846
Leader's seat	Tiverton	House of Lords
Seats before	50	55
Seats won	58	47
Seat change	8	8
Popular vote	51,532	41,497
Percentage	55.6%	44.4%
Swing	5.5%	5.5%

Results of the 1865 election in Ireland

The 1865 United Kingdom general election in Ireland took place in July 1865. It was the first election contested by the new Liberal Party. In Ireland, the Liberals increased their seat total. This composed the greater part of the increase of 13 seats for the Liberals led by Viscount Palmerston in the United Kingdom election as a whole, after which they stayed in office. Palmerston died later that year and was succeeded as prime minister by Earl Russell.

Results

Party		Candidates	Unopposed	Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% Change
	Liberal	83	28	58	8	51,532	55.6	5.5
	Irish Conservative	61	27	47	8	41,497	44.4	5.5
Total		142	55	105	—	93,029	100

The vote total does not include the result from Dublin University

Popular vote

Liberal			55.39%
Irish Conservative			44.61%

Parliamentary seats

Liberal			55.24%
Irish Conservative			44.76%

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