1886 vote of no confidence against the government of William Gladstone

The 1886 vote of no confidence against the government of William Ewart Gladstone occurred when Parliament rejected the Government's Ireland Bill. The Bill was treated as a confidence vote and Gladstone resigned immediately after.^[1]

Yes votes	311
No votes	341

References

↑ "House of Commons: Government Defeats". Archived from the original on 2009-06-06. Retrieved 2009-06-02.

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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