Claim: The 1874 United Kingdom general election in Ireland, totaling 101 seats and was between three parties with the Isaac Butt led Home Rule Party getting the win.
Evidence: 101 Home Rule 60 60 90,234 Irish Conservative 31 6 91,702 Liberal 10 56 39,778 The election saw the Irish of the Home Rule League become the first significant third party in Parliament, with 60 of 101 of the seats for Ireland. The Home Rule League grew out of the Home Government Association, a pressure group formed in 1870 and led by Isaac Butt, a Dublin based barrister who had once been a leading Irish Tory before becoming a convert to Irish nationalism.