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The Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the Reform Act 1832, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 45) that introduced major changes to the electoral system of England and Wales. It reapportioned constituencies to address the unequal distribution of ...
The following 56 parliamentary boroughs, in England, were completely disenfranchised by the Act. [1] They had all returned two members except for Higham Ferrers, which was a single member constituency. The disenfranchised boroughs lost all independent legislative representation; instead the inhabitants could vote only as part of the county ...
Duties on Personal Estates, etc. (England) Act 1832 (repealed) ... or the Reform Act 1832 or the Great Reform Act or the First Reform Act. 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 45.
The 1832 Reform Act for England and Wales was the most controversial of the electoral reform acts passed by the Parliament. Similar Acts were passed the same year for Scotland, and Ireland. They were put through Parliament by the Whigs. The Acts reapportioned Parliament in a way fairer to the cities of the old industrial north, which had ...
7 June – The Great Reform Act becomes law, abolishing most rotten boroughs and redistributing Parliamentary seats to newer urban centres of industry and commerce, while extending suffrage to male copyholders and leaseholders of rural property with a minimum annual value or renters of property in boroughs also with a minimum annual value (£10 ...
These constituencies were defined by the Representation of the People Act 1832 (commonly known as the Reform Act 1832), and with the exception of the changes listed below they remained in effect until the next round of revisions in 1867 and 1868, when three pieces of legislation restructured the constituencies:
Lord John Russell, architect of the Reform Act 1832 was elected in 1832 as MP for Devonshire Southern. 1832 was the first general election in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Representation of the People Act 1832 (commonly known as the "Reform Act 1832" or the "Great Reform Act") had introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system.
Old Sarum in Wiltshire, an uninhabited hill which until 1832 elected two Members of Parliament. Painting by John Constable, 1829. A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom before the Reform Act 1832, which had a very small electorate and could be used by a ...