1830 United Kingdom general election
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All 658 seats in the House of Commons 330 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Composition of the House of Commons after the election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1830 United Kingdom general election was held on 29 July 1830 to 1 September 1830 in the wake of the death of King George IV, producing the first parliament of the reign of his successor, King William IV. The fractured Tory party under the Duke of Wellington paved the way for Earl Grey to form a government, which would go on to take the issue of electoral reform the following year.
The eighth United Kingdom Parliament was dissolved on 24 July 1830. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 14 September 1830, 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. This election was the first since 1708 to cause the collapse of the government.