| Election Name: | 1895 United Kingdom general election |
| Country: | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1892 United Kingdom general election |
| Previous Year: | 1892 |
| Previous Mps: | List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1892 |
| Next Election: | 1900 United Kingdom general election |
| Next Year: | 1900 |
| Seats For Election: | All 670 seats in the House of Commons |
| Majority Seats: | 336 |
| Elected Mps: | List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1895 |
| Leader1: | Marquess of Salisbury |
| Leader Since1: | April 1881 |
| Party1: | Conservative and Liberal Unionist |
| Leaders Seat1: | House of Lords |
| Last Election1: | 313 seats, 47.0% |
| Seats1: | 411 |
| Seat Change1: | 97 |
| Popular Vote1: | 1,759,484 |
| Percentage1: | 49.3% |
| Swing1: | 2.3% |
| Leader2: | Earl of Rosebery |
| Leader Since2: | 5 March 1894 |
| Party2: | Liberal Party (UK) |
| Leaders Seat2: | House of Lords |
| Last Election2: | 272 seats, 45.4% |
| Seats2: | 177 |
| Seat Change2: | 94 |
| Popular Vote2: | 1,628,405 |
| Percentage2: | 45.6% |
| Swing2: | 0.2% |
| Leader3: | John Dillon |
| Leader Since3: | 1892 |
| Party3: | Irish National Federation |
| Leaders Seat3: | East Mayo |
| Last Election3: | 72 seats, 5.2% |
| Seats3: | 70 |
| Seat Change3: | 2 |
| Popular Vote3: | 92,556 |
| Percentage3: | 2.6% |
| Swing3: | 2.6% |
| Prime Minister | |
| Posttitle: | Prime Minister after election |
| Before Election: | Marquess of Salisbury |
| Before Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| After Election: | Marquess of Salisbury |
| After Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Map Size: | 330px |
| Turnout: | 78.4% |
| Map2 Image: | File:1895 UK GE composition diagram.svg |
| Map2 Caption: | Diagram showing the composition of the House of Commons following the election |
The 1895 United Kingdom general election was held from 13 July to 7 August 1895. The result was a Conservative parliamentary majority of 153.
William Gladstone had retired as Prime Minister the previous year, and Queen Victoria, disregarding Gladstone's advice to name Lord Spencer as his successor, appointed the Earl of Rosebery as the new Prime Minister. Rosebery's government found itself largely in a state of paralysis due to a power struggle between him and William Harcourt, the Liberal leader in the Commons. The situation came to a head on 21 June, when Parliament voted to dismiss Secretary of State for War Henry Campbell-Bannerman; Rosebery, realising that the government would likely not survive a motion of no confidence were one to be brought, promptly resigned as Prime Minister. Conservative leader Lord Salisbury was subsequently re-appointed for a third spell as Prime Minister, and promptly called a new election.
The election was won by the Conservatives, who continued their alliance with the Liberal Unionist Party and won a large majority. The Liberals, in contrast, went down to what at the time was their worst result since the party's foundation, winning just 177 seats. The Irish Parliamentary Party was split at this time; most of its MPs (the "Anti-Parnellites") followed John Dillon, while a rump (the "Parnellites") followed John Redmond. The Independent Labour Party, having only previously existed as a loose grouping of left-wing politicians, formally organized into a party led by Keir Hardie in 1893 and contested their first election. They earned relatively little attention at this election, winning slightly less than one per cent of the popular vote and no seats, but would enjoy greater success five years later, when they ran under the banner of the Labour Representation Committee.
This was the last United Kingdom general election where neither the incumbent Prime Minister nor leader of the main opposition party sat in the House of Commons, with Rosebery and Salisbury both sitting in the House of Lords, and William Harcourt and Arthur Balfour respectively acting as the Commons leaders for the Liberals and Conservatives.
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