1741 British general election

1741 British general election
30 April – 11 June 1741 (1741-04-30 – 1741-06-11)
All 558 seats in the House of Commons
280 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Sir Robert Walpole Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn William Pulteney
Party Whig Tory Opposition / Patriot Whigs
Leader's seat King's Lynn Montgomeryshire Middlesex
Seats won 286 136 131
Seat change 44 9 48
Composition of the House of Commons after the election
Prime Minister before election

Sir Robert Walpole
Whig

Prime Minister after election

Sir Robert Walpole
Whig

The 1741 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 9th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger of the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland in 1707. The election saw support for the government party increase in the quasi-democratic constituencies which were decided by popular vote, but the Whigs lost control of a number of rotten and pocket boroughs, partly as a result of the influence of the Prince of Wales, and were consequently re-elected with the barest of majorities in the Commons, Robert Walpole's supporters only narrowly outnumbering his opponents.

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