1727 British general election

1727 British general election
← 1722 14 August – 17 October 1727 (1727-08-14 – 1727-10-17) 1734 →
All 558 seats in the House of Commons
280 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Sir Robert Walpole Viscount Bolingbroke William Pulteney
Party Whig Tory Opposition / Patriot Whigs
Leader's seat King's Lynn House of Lords Hedon
Seats won 415 128 15
Seat change Increase26 Decrease41 Increase15
Composition of the House of Commons after the election
Prime Minister before election

Sir Robert Walpole
Whig

Prime Minister after election

Sir Robert Walpole
Whig

The 1727 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 7th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election was triggered by the death of King George I;[1] at the time, it was the convention to hold new elections following the succession of a new monarch. The Tories, led in the House of Commons by William Wyndham, and under the direction of Bolingbroke, who had returned to the country in 1723 after being pardoned for his role in the Jacobite rising of 1715, lost further ground to the Whigs, rendering them ineffectual and largely irrelevant to practical politics. A group known as the Patriot Whigs, led by William Pulteney, who were disenchanted with Walpole's government and believed he was betraying Whig principles, had been formed prior to the election. Bolingbroke and Pulteney had not expected the next election to occur until 1729, and were consequently caught unprepared and failed to make any gains against the government party.

Summary of the constituencies

See 1796 British general election for details. The constituencies used were the same throughout the existence of the Parliament of Great Britain.

Dates of election

The general election was held between 14 August 1727 and 17 October 1727.

At this period, elections did not take place at the same time in every constituency. The returning officer in each county or parliamentary borough fixed the precise date (see hustings for details of the conduct of the elections).

Results

Seats summary

Parliamentary seats
Whig
 
 74.4%
Tory
 
 22.9%
Patriot
 
 2.7%

See also

References

  1. ^ Nulle, Stebelton H. (1937). "The Duke of Newcastle and the Election of 1727". The Journal of Modern History. 9 (1): 1–22. ISSN 0022-2801.
  • British Electoral Facts 1832–1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher (Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2000). (For dates of elections before 1832, see the footnote to Table 5.02).

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