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The Scottish Reform Act 1832 was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the election laws of Scotland. The act was passed at approximately the same time as the Reform Act 1832, which applied to England and Wales. The chief architects of the Act were Francis Jeffrey and Henry Cockburn. [2]
4 June – the Scottish Reform Act, reforming the Scottish Westminster constituencies and enlarging the electorate from 5,000 to 60,000, is passed in Parliament contemporaneously with similar legislation for other constituents of the U.K., becoming law from 17 July. On 11 August around 50,000 gather on the Links in Edinburgh to celebrate the event.
The Scottish Reformation was the ... (c. 1369 –1415), who called for reform of the Church ... who favoured religious reform. The act of Parliament of 1543 ...
The following Acts of Parliament are known as Reform Acts: Reform Act 1832 (often called the "Great Reform Act" or "First Reform Act"), [14] which applied to England and Wales and gave representation to previously underrepresented urban areas and extended the qualifications for voting. Scottish Reform Act 1832, a similar reform applying to ...
English, Scottish, Irish and Great Britain legislation: Acts of parliaments of states preceding the United Kingdom; Of the Kingdom of England. Royal statutes, etc ...
Constitutional Reform and Governance Act: 2010: Parl. Voting System and Constituencies Act: 2011: Welsh devolution referendum: 2011: Alternative Vote referendum: 2011: European Union Act 2011: 2011: Fixed-term Parliaments Act: 2011: Scotland Act 2012: 2012: Succession to the Crown Act 2013: 2013: Scottish independence referendum: 2014: House of ...
From the Scottish Reform Act 1832 (which increased the number of Scottish MPs and significantly widened the franchise to include more of the middle classes), until the end of the century they managed to gain a majority of the Westminster Parliamentary seats for Scotland, although these were often outnumbered by the much larger number of English ...
The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament which establishes statutory public rights of access to land and makes provisions under which bodies representing rural and crofting communities may buy land. [1]