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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.
Adonis, A. Making Aristocracy Work: The Peerage and the Political System in Britain, 1884–1914 (1993). Benians, E.A. et al. eds. The Cambridge History of the British Empire Vol. iii: The Empire – Commonwealth 1870–1919' (1959) p. 915 and passim; coverage of Salisbury's foreign and imperial policies; online; Bentley, Michael.
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]
Planning reforms were set out in the King’s Speech to help Labour meet targets to develop the country’s infrastructure and build 1.5 million homes. Planning reform Bill to ‘get Britain ...
Slavery Abolition Act 1833, abolished slavery throughout the British Empire. Bird v Jones (1845) 7 QB 742, right to liberty, freedom of movement (across bridges). Second Reform Act 1867, loosened the property qualification, extended the franchise to around a third of men.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, delivered remarks Thursday during a campaign stop in Erie, Pa. Walz was wrapping up a two-day visit to Pennsylvania, his first ...