1802 United Kingdom general election

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1802 United Kingdom general election

←  1796 (GB) 1797 (Ireland) 5 July – 28 August 1802 (1802-07-05 – 1802-08-28) 1806 →
← outgoing members elected members →
All 658 seats in the House of Commons 330 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Henry Addington Charles James Fox William Pitt Party Addingtonian Foxite Pittite Leader's seat Devizes Westminster Cambridge University Seats won 383 269 6
The UK parliament after the 1802 election
Prime Minister before election Henry Addington Addingtonian Prime Minister after election Henry Addington Addingtonian

The 1802 United Kingdom general election was the election to the House of Commons of the second Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was the first to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. The first Parliament had been composed of members of the former Parliaments of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.

The Parliament of Great Britain held its last general election in 1796. The final election for the Parliament of Ireland was held in 1797.

The first united Parliament was dissolved on 29 June 1802. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 31 August 1802, for a maximum seven-year term from that date. (The maximum term could be and normally was curtailed, by the monarch dissolving the Parliament, before its term expired.)