The 1880 United Kingdom general election was held from 31 March to 27 April 1880. It saw the Liberal opposition triumph with 352 seats.
Picture of Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
Benjamin Disraeli, 1878
A painting by Alfred George Palmer of election night outside Exeter Guildhall in the collection of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (333/1997).
Crowds wait outside Leeds Town Hall to hear the result
William Ewart Gladstone
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William Ewart Gladstone was a British statesman who served four times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He began in politics as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Newark and ended as the f
1880 United Kingdom general election
…triumph with 352 seats. Its intense rhetoric was led by the Midlothian campaign of the Liberals, particularly the fierce oratory of Liberal leader William Gladstone. He vehemently attacked the foreign policy of the government of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, as utterly immoral. The endeavours of the…
Gladstone in 1892
Gladstone in the 1830s
A pensive Gladstone, from the book Great Britain and Her Queen, by Anne E. Keeling
Gladstone in 1859, painted by George Frederic Watts