1734 British general election

1734 British general election

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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 Middlesex
Seats won 330 145 83
Seat change Decrease85 Increase17 Increase68

Prime Minister before election

Sir Robert Walpole
Whig

Prime Minister after election

Sir Robert Walpole
Whig

The 1734 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 8th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. Robert Walpole's increasingly unpopular Whig government lost ground to the Tories and the opposition Whigs, but still had a secure majority in the House of Commons. The Patriot Whigs were joined in opposition by a group of Whig members led by Lord Cobham known as the Cobhamites, or 'Cobham's Cubs'.