Philip Henry Muntz..... 22,803}
John Bright............ 21,986}  Returned. 
Joseph Chamberlain..... 19,476}
Major Burnaby.......... 15,716
Hon. A.C.G.  Calthorpe   14,270

An analysis of the polling issued by the Mayor about a week after the election showed that 16,098 voters supported the Conservative candidates and 33,302 the Liberals.  Deducting the 2,004 who “split” their votes between the parties, and 380 whose papers were either rejected or not counted as being doubtful, the total gives 47,396 as the actual number whose votes decided the election.  As a curiosity and a puzzle for future politicians, the Mayor’s analysis is worth preserving, as here re-analysed:—­

PLUMPERS.

Calthorpe only      ..          ..          42
Burnaby only        ..          ..         164       206
Chamberlain only    ..          ..          50
Muntz only          ..          ..         199
Bright only         ..          ..          86       335

SPLIT VOTES.

Calthorpe and Muntz             ..         153
Calthorpe and Chamberlain       ..          83
Burnaby and Muntz               ..       1,239
Burnaby and Chamberlain         ..         182
Bright and Calthorpe            ..         104
Bright and Burnaby              ..         243     2,004

CON.  PARTY VOTES.

  Burnaby and Calthorpe .. 13,888 13,888

LIBERAL PARTY VOTES.

Chamberlain and Muntz           ..      9,410
Bright and Muntz                ..     11,802
Bright and Chamberlain          ..      9,751    30,963

Voting papers rejected and doubtful                 380
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Total number of voters polled.. .. 47,776

Mr. Bright having been again appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Mr. Chamberlain chosen as President of the Board of Trade, they were re-elected, without opposition, early in May following the election.  Three other local Liberal gentlemen were returned to Parliament during this general election, viz.:—­Mr. Jesse Collings for Ipswich (receiving 3,074 votes), Mr. H. Wiggin for East Staffordshire (4,617 votes), and Mr. J.S.  Wright for Nottingham (8,085 votes).  The last-named, however, did not live to take his seat, dying very suddenly while attending a committee-meeting at the Council House, Birmingham, on the 15th April.—­See “Statues,” &c According to the published returns of January, 1884, Birmingham was then the largest borough constituency in England, the number of electors on the register then in force being 63,221:  Liverpool coming next with 61,336; and Lambeth third, with 55,588; but Glasgow was the largest in the United Kingdom, with 68,025.  The largest county constituency in England and Wales was Middlesex, with 41,299 electors; the next being South-West Lancashire, with 30,624; the third, South-East Lancashire, with 28,728; and the fourth, the southern division of the West Riding, with 27,625.  The total electorate for England and Wales, was 2,660,444; Scotland, 331,264; and Ireland, 230,156.