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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 ...
[132] Churchill wrote to Asquith after the second 1910 election, "your leadership was the main and conspicuous feature of the whole fight". [129] Matthew, in his article on Asquith, found that, "the episode was the zenith of Asquith's prime ministerial career. In the British Liberal tradition, he patched rather than reformulated the ...
The Irish component of the December 1910 United Kingdom general election took place between 3 and 19 December, concurrently with the polls in Great Britain. Though the national result was a deadlock between the Conservatives and the Liberals, the result in Ireland was, as was the trend by now, a large victory for the Irish Parliamentary Party.
The Liberal Party under Asquith remained in government with the support of the Irish Parliamentary Party. This was the last election in which the Liberals won the highest number of seats in the House of Commons. It was also the last United Kingdom general election in which a party other than Labour or the Conservatives won the most seats.
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.
1910 Barnstaple by-election; December 1910 United Kingdom general election; List of MPs elected in the December 1910 United Kingdom general election; 1910 Govan by-election; List of United Kingdom MPs who only sat in the February–November 1910 Parliament; 1910 Reading by-election; 1910 Rotherham by-election; 1910 Shipley by-election
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Election: December 1910 United Kingdom general election: Government: Third Asquith ministry (1910—1915) Fourth Asquith ministry (1915—1916) First Lloyd George coalition ministry (1916—1918) House of Commons; Members: 670: Speaker: James Lowther: Leader: H. H. Asquith (until 1916) Bonar Law (from 1916) Prime Minister [H. H. Asquith (until ...