1841 United Kingdom general election

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The 1841 United Kingdom general election was held between 29 June and 22 July 1841. Following increasing government defeats, the Conservatives under Sir Robert Peel won a decisive victory against the governing Whigs.

The Conservatives campaigned mainly on an 11-point programme modified from their previous electoral effort and designed by Peel, whilst the Whigs emphasised reforming the import duties on corn, replacing the existing sliding scale with a uniform rate. The Whig position lost them support amongst protectionists, and the Whigs saw heavy losses in constituencies like the West Riding, where aristocratic Whig families who held a strong tradition of unbroken representation in Parliament were rejected by the electorate.

O'Connell, who had been governing with the Whigs through a compact, felt the government's unpopularity rub off on him. His own party was shattered in the election. Barely a dozen Repealers retained their seats, and O'Connell himself lost in Dublin while his son was defeated in Carlow. The Chartists picked up only a few votes.

Results

|votes % = 51.62 |seats % =55.78 |plus/minus = +2.6 |votes % = 46.15 |seats % =41.19 |plus/minus = −4.8 |votes % = 2.11 |seats % =3.04 |plus/minus = N/A |votes % = 0.12 |seats % =0 |plus/minus = N/A |}

Voting summary

Seats summary

Regional results

Great Britain

Party	Candidates	Unopposed	Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% change	Total
	439	185	326	+42	286,650	52.7	+4.5
	333	83	229	−42	256,774	47.2	−4.6
	8	0	0		692	0.1
780	268	555		544,116	100

England

Party	Candidates	Unopposed	Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% change	Total
	374	147	277		272,755	53.1
	277	62	187		236,813	46.8
	4	0	0		307	0.1
655	209	464		509,875	100

Scotland

Party	Candidates	Unopposed	Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% change	Total
	40	13	31	-2	16,356	60.8
	35	16	22	+2	9,793	38.3
	3	0	0		385	0.9
78	29	53		26,534	100

Wales

Party	Candidates	Unopposed	Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% change	Total
	24	16	21		4,102	53.2
	16	8	11		3,605	46.8
	1	0	0		0	0.0
41	24	32		7,707	100

Ireland

Party	Candidates	Unopposed	Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% change	Total
	55	30	42		17,128	35.1
	59	27	41		19,664	40.1
	22	12	20		12,537	24.8
136	69	103		49,329	100

Universities

Party	Candidates	Unopposed	Seats	Seats change	Votes	%	% change	Total
	6	6	6		Uncontested	Uncontested
6	6	6		Uncontested	Uncontested