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In OTL, these were the results of the General Election of 1874:

Conservatives -- 350
Liberals -- 242
Irish Home Rule -- 60

So say 25 or more seats that OTL went for the conservatives go for either the liberals or home rule instead; what happens next?

Now, I realize in OTL, this more or less happened a decade later in 1885; Gladstone formed a coalition, introduced a Home Rule Bill -- and it failed, leading to new elections less than a year later. (The same thing happened in 1892, and Gladstone got another Home Rule bill passed -- only to have it fail in the House of Lords.)

Is it safe to assume that the same thing would happen in 1874, or would other factors -- like Disareli leading the oppostion -- open possibilities of a different outcome?
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