1874 United Kingdom general election in Ireland

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{{Infobox election

|country =

|type = parliamentary

|ongoing = no

|previous_election = 1868 United Kingdom general election in Ireland

|previous_year = 1868

|previous_mps = List of MPs elected in the 1868 United Kingdom general election

|next_election = 1880 United Kingdom general election in Ireland

|next_year = 1880

|seats_for_election = 103 of the 652 seats to the House of Commons{{efn|Sligo Borough and Cashel had been disenfranchised by the Sligo and Cashel Disfranchisement Act 1870, so there was a reduction in two seats from Ireland.}}

|election_date = {{start and end dates|1874|1|31|1874|2|17|df=yes}}

|elected_mps = List of MPs elected in the 1874 United Kingdom general election

| image1 = 150x150px

| leader1 = Isaac Butt

| leader_since1 = 1873

| party1 = Home Rule League

| leaders_seat1 = Limerick

| last_election1 = New

| seats1 = 60

| seat_change1 = {{increase}}60

| popular_vote1 = 90,234

| percentage1 = 39.6%

| swing1 = {{increase}}39.6%

| image2 = 150x150px

| leader2 = Benjamin Disraeli

| leader_since2 = 27 February 1868

| party2 = Conservative Party (UK)

| leaders_seat2 = Buckinghamshire

| last_election2 = 39

| seats2 = 33

| seat_change2 = {{decrease}}6

| popular_vote2 = 91,702

| percentage2 = 40.8%

| swing2 = {{decrease}}1.1%

| image3 = 150x150px

| leader3 = William Ewart Gladstone

| leader_since3 = 3 December 1868

| party3 = Liberal Party (UK)

| leaders_seat3 = Greenwich

| last_election3 = 66

| seats3 = 10

| seat_change3 = {{decrease}}56

| popular_vote3 = 39,778

| percentage3 = 18.4%

| swing3 = {{decrease}}39.5%

| map_image = United Kingdom general election 1874 in Ireland.svg

| map_size = 300px

| map_caption = Results of the 1874 election in Ireland

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The 1874 United Kingdom general election in Ireland produced the first major electoral appearance of the Home Rule League under chairman Isaac Butt. The party's electoral success, in which it won 60 MPs, taking control of Irish electoral politics from the previously dominant Conservative and the Liberal parties was, the beginning of a dominance that was to see the party as the Irish Parliamentary Party control the political landscape in Ireland until its wipeout in the 1918 general election.

However its success in 1874 was marred by the lack of unity within the party in the House of Commons, where many of its members in effect sat as Liberal MPs and voted against their own Irish colleagues. It was not until then chairman Charles Stewart Parnell in the early 1880s introduced a strict whip that the party began to exercise serious influence, and act as a unit, at Westminster.