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All 658 seats in the House of Commons 330 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | about 516,000[1] (out of a population of 24,000,000) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() The UK parliament after the 1831 election | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1831 United Kingdom general election saw a landslide win by supporters of electoral reform, which was the major election issue. As a result, it was the last unreformed election, as the following Parliament ensured the passage of the Reform Act 1832. Polling was held from 28 April to 1 June 1831. The Whigs won a majority of 136 over the Tories, which was as near to a landslide as the unreformed electoral system could deliver. As the Government obtained a dissolution of Parliament once the new electoral system had been enacted, the resulting Parliament was a short one and there was another election the following year. The election was the first since 1715 to see a victory by a party previously in minority.
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