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January 1910 United Kingdom general election in Ireland ← 1906 15–28 January 1910 (1910-01-15 – 1910-01-28) December 1910 → 103 seats for Ireland of the 670 seats in the House of Commons First party Second party Third party Leader John Redmond Edward Carson William O'Brien Party Irish Parliamentary Irish Unionist All-for-Ireland Leader since 1900 1910 15 January 1910 Leader's seat ...
10 February 1910 – 3 December 1910: Election: January 1910 United Kingdom general election: ... H. H. Asquith: Leader of the Opposition: Arthur Balfour: Third-party ...
The January 1910 United Kingdom general election was held from 15 January to 10 February 1910. The government called the election in the midst of a constitutional crisis caused by the rejection of the People's Budget by the Conservative-dominated House of Lords , in order to get a mandate to pass the budget.
15 January – 10 February 1910 H. H. Asquith Liberal (minority government) [a] 43.5% −122 670 N/A 1910 29th 3–19 December 1910 H. H. Asquith 44.2% −126 George V (David Lloyd George) The election that would have been due by 1916 as a result of the Parliament Act 1911 was not held due to the First World War (1914–1918). 1918 30th
After that election they shared out the 9 vacant Aldermanic seats giving them an effective working majority of 43. At the 1910 elections, their overall majority was cut to just 2. After the election they decided to bolster their majority by giving themselves all 10 of the vacant Aldermanic seats. This gave them an effective working majority of 17.
Asquith: portrait of a man and an era (1964) online; Levine, Naomi. Politics, Religion, and Love: The Story of H.H. Asquith, Venetia Stanley, and Edwin Montagu, Based on the Life and Letters of Edwin Samuel Montagu (NYU Press, 1991). Murray, Bruce K. The People's Budget, 1909–1910: Lloyd George and Liberal Politics (1980). Packer, Ian.
The Prime Minister, H H Asquith, had intended to appoint Pease to the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and was therefore keen to identify a seat at which room could be made for Pease at a by-election. Asquith had taken Pease’s defeat quite hard and had sent him a telegram on 12 January 1910 saying: ‘This is the worst incident ...
January – Cinematograph Act 1909 comes into effect providing for licensing of cinemas by local authorities. 15 January – A general election held in response to the House of Lords' rejection of the 1909 budget results in a reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title preferred at this time by the Conservative Party), 273).