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William Ewart Gladstone in 1884.. In the United Kingdom under the premiership of William Gladstone, the Representation of the People Act 1884 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 3), also known informally as the Third Reform Act, [1] and the Redistribution Act of the following year were laws which further extended the suffrage in the UK after the Derby government's Reform Act 1867. [2]
Reform Act 1884 (also called the "Third Reform Act"), [16] which allowed people in counties to vote on the same basis as those in towns. Home ownership was the only qualification. Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (sometimes called the "Reform Act 1885"), [12] [13] which split most multi-member constituencies into multiple single-member ones.
Changes in parliamentary franchise from 1885 to 1918 in the United Kingdom were the result of centuries of development in different kinds of constituencies. [1] The three Reform Acts of the nineteenth century brought about some order by amending franchises in a uniform manner (see Reform Act 1832, Reform Act 1867 and Representation of the ...
Gladstone in 1884, photographed by Rupert Potter. Gladstone extended the vote to agricultural labourers and others in the 1884 Reform Act, which gave the counties the same franchise as the boroughs – adult male householders and £10 lodgers – and added six million to the total number of people who could vote in parliamentary elections. [130]
6 December – Representation of the People Act ("Third Reform Act") extends the franchise uniformly across the U.K. in county as well as borough constituencies to all male tenants paying a £10 rental or occupying land to that value. [6] This extends the franchise from around 3,040,000 voters to around 5,700,000. [17]
The Third Reform Act of 1884 was followed by the Redistribution of Seats ... "Joseph Chamberlain and the Genesis of Tariff Reform". Journal of British Studies. 7 (1): ...
The first major reform Gladstone undertook was the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland as embodied in the Irish Church Act 1869.This was followed by the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1870 which attempted to protect Irish tenants from unfair treatment from landlords by lending public money to tenants to enable them to buy their holdings.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (/ ˈ ɡ æ s k ɔɪ n ˈ s ɪ s əl /; [1] [a] 3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903), known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen years.