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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.
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.
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]
1867: Second Reform Act – Male franchise extended to 2.5 million. 1869: Municipal Franchise Act 1869 gives single women ratepayers the right to vote in local elections. [6] [7] [8] 1883: Conservative Primrose League formed. 1884: Third Reform Act – Male electorate doubled to 5 million. 1889: Women's Franchise League established.
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 ...
In the first election after the Act was passed (1885), thirteen were elected, up from two in 1874. The Third Reform Act also facilitated the demise of the Whig old guard; in two-member constituencies, it was common to pair a Whig and a radical under the Liberal banner. After the Third Reform Act, fewer former Whigs were selected as candidates. [21]
The resulting general election of 1868 (the first under the extended franchise enacted in the Reform Act 1867) returned a Liberal majority of 112 seats in the House of Commons. As prime minister 1868 to 1874 Gladstone headed a Liberal Party that was a coalition of Peelites like himself, Whigs and radicals; Gladstone was now a spokesman for ...