1885 vote of no confidence against the government of William Gladstone

The 1885 vote of no confidence against the government of William Gladstone occurred on 8 June 1885 when Gladstone's budget was defeated.^[1] Gladstone resigned from office on 9 June 1885.^[2]

Motion and Vote

Yes votes	252
No votes	264

References

↑ "Biography of GLADSTONE, William Ewart - Archontology.org". Archived from the original on 2009-06-06. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
↑ "William Ewart Gladstone". Archontology. Retrieved 2011-08-07.

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

Lord North (1782) Viscount Melbourne (1841) Earl of Aberdeen (1855) Earl Russell (1866) William Gladstone (1885) Marquess of Salisbury (1886) William Gladstone (1886) Marquess of Salisbury (1892) Earl of Rosebery (1895) Stanley Baldwin (January 1924) Ramsay MacDonald (October 1924) James Callaghan (1979)

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