1802 United Kingdom general election

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1802 United Kingdom general election

← 1796 (GB) ← 1797 (IR) 5 July – 28 August 1802 (1802-07-05 – 1802-08-28) 1806 →
← outgoing members elected members →
All 658 seats in the House of Commons 330 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Henry Addington Charles James Fox William Pitt Party Tory (Addingtonian) Whig (Foxite) Pittite Leader's seat Devizes Westminster Cambridge University Seats won 383 269 6
Composition of the House of Commons after the election
Prime Minister before election Henry Addington Addingtonian Prime Minister after election Henry Addington Addingtonian

The 1802 United Kingdom general election was the first general election after the Acts of Union 1800, held from 5 July 1802 to 28 August 1802, to elect members of the House of Commons, the lower house of the new Parliament of the United Kingdom. The first Parliament had been composed of members of the former Parliaments of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.

The Parliament of Great Britain held its last general election in 1796. The final election for the Parliament of Ireland was held in 1797.

The first united Parliament was dissolved on 29 June 1802. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 31 August 1802, for a maximum seven-year term from that date. (The maximum term could be and normally was curtailed, by the monarch dissolving the Parliament, before its term expired.)