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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.
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.
An Act to confirm certain Orders of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 1876, [k] as amended and extended by the Poor Law Act, 1879, [l] and the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 1882, [m] relating to the Parishes of Abergwilly, Bettws Bledrws, Carmarthen, Cole Orton ...
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage speaks to the crowd as he arrives in a land rover to deliver a stump speech to supporters on July 3, 2024 in Clacton-on-Sea, England.
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]
Third Reform Act in 1884 and the Redistribution of Seats Act the following year extended the same voting qualifications in the towns to the countryside and established the present-day one-member constituency as the normal pattern for Parliamentary representation.