1790 Irish general election

1790 Irish general election
c. April–May 1790
All 300 seats of the House of Commons
151 seats were needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Henry Grattan John FitzGibbon
Party Patriot Party Administration
Leader's seat Dublin City County Kildare
Speaker before election

John Foster
Administration

Elected Speaker

John Foster
Administration

The 1790 Irish general election was a general election to the Irish House of Commons in the Kingdom of Ireland, held around April–May 1790. It was the first election following the Octennial Act 1768, which mandated elections every eight years, replacing the prior system where parliaments lasted the lifetime of the monarch. The election occurred in the wake of the Constitution of 1782, which had granted greater legislative independence to Ireland, but political tensions persisted over parliamentary reform and the influence of the Dublin Castle administration.

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