1900 United Kingdom general election

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All670 seats in theHouse of Commons 336 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	3,260,696 75.1% (3.3pp)
First party Second party   Leader Marquess of Salisbury Henry Campbell-Bannerman Party Conservative andLiberal Unionist Liberal Leader since April 1881 December 1898 Leader's seat House of Lords Stirling Burghs Last election 411 seats, 49.3% 177 seats, 45.6% Seats won 402 183[a] Seat change 9 6 Popular vote 1,637,683 1,469,500 Percentage 50.2% 45.1% Swing 0.9pp 0.5pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader John Redmond Keir Hardie Party Irish Parliamentary Labour Repr. Cmte. Leader since 6 February 1900 28 February 1900 Leader's seat Waterford City Merthyr Tydfil Last election 82 seats, 3.9%[1] Did not contest Seats won 76 2 Seat change 6 2 Popular vote 57,576 41,900 Percentage 1.8% 1.3% Swing 2.1pp New party
Colours denote the winning party
Diagram displaying the composition of the House of Commons following the election
Prime Minister before election Marquess of Salisbury Conservative Prime Minister after election Marquess of Salisbury Conservative

The1900 United Kingdom general election was held between 26 September and 24 October 1900, following the dissolution of Parliament on 25 September. Also referred to as theKhaki Election (the first of several elections to bearthis sobriquet), it was held at a time when it was widely believed that theSecond Boer War had effectively been won (though in fact it was to continue for another two years).

TheConservative Party, led byLord Salisbury with theirLiberal Unionist allies, secured a large majority of 134 seats, despite having received only 5.6% more votes thanHenry Campbell-Bannerman'sLiberals. This was largely owing to the Conservatives winning 163 seats that were uncontested by others. TheLabour Representation Committee, later to become theLabour Party, participated in a general election for the first time. However, it had only been in existence for a few months; as a result,Keir Hardie andRichard Bell were the only LRC Members of Parliament elected in 1900.

This was thefirst occasion whenWinston Churchill was elected to theHouse of Commons. He had stood in the same seat,Oldham, at aby-election held the previous year, but had lost. It was also the final general election of theVictorian era, as well as the last one where the leader of either of the two largest parties (and by extension, the incumbent Prime Minister) sat in the House of Lords rather than the House of Commons.

• List of MPs elected in the 1900 United Kingdom general election
• Parliamentary franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918
• 1900 United Kingdom general election in Ireland
• 1900 United Kingdom general election in Scotland

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• United Kingdom election results—summary results 1885–1979Archived 30 January 2012 at theWayback Machine

• 1900 Conservative manifesto
• 1900 Labour manifesto
• 1900 Liberal manifesto

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• September 1900 in the United Kingdom
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• Henry Campbell-Bannerman
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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