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In the 1857 United Kingdom general election the Whigs led by Lord Palmerston finally won a majority in the House of Commons as the Conservative vote fell significantly. The election had been provoked by a vote of censure in Palmerston’s government over his approach to the Arrow affair which led to the Second Opium War.

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