1835 vote of no confidence against the government of Sir Robert Peel

Sir Robert Peel, Bt, the Prime Minister in Office

The 1835 vote of no confidence against the government of Sir Robert Peel occurred in April 1835.

Sir Robert Peel, Bt became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in December 1834. However, his Party formed only a minority in the House of Commons. The following general election did not change this situation, which left the Conservative Party over 100 seats shorter than the Whigs in the House of Commons. Peel's government was unable to implement most of its policies. On 7 April, Ralph Bernal, a Whig MP, brought up a Report of the Committee of the House on the Church of Ireland. The Report was passed in the House of Commons against the government's will by a vote of 285 to 258.^[1] Peel resigned on the next day and King William IV appointed Whig leader The Viscount Melbourne as the prime minister.

Yes votes	285
No votes	258

References

↑ "Church Of Ireland". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons. April 7, 1835.

Successful motion-of-no-confidence votes against United Kingdom governments

1742 (against Sir Robert Walpole)
1782 (against Lord North)
1784 (against William Pitt the Younger)
1830 (against The Duke of Wellington)
1835 (against Sir Robert Peel)
June 1841 (against The Viscount Melbourne)
August 1841 (against The Viscount Melbourne)
1846 (against Sir Robert Peel)
1851 (against Lord John Russell)
February 1852 (against Lord John Russell)
December 1852 (against The Earl of Derby)
1855 (against The Earl of Aberdeen)
1858 (against The Viscount Palmerston)
1859 (against The Earl of Derby)
1866 (against The Earl Russell)
1873 (against William Gladstone)
1885 (against William Gladstone)
January 1886 (against The Marquess of Salisbury)
June 1886 (against William Gladstone)
1892 (against The Marquess of Salisbury)
1895 (against The Earl of Rosebery)
January 1924 (against Stanley Baldwin)
October 1924 (against Ramsay MacDonald)
1979 (against James Callaghan)

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