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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 the Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. c. 45), enacted by the Whig government of Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey , introducing major changes to the electoral system of England ...
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 ...
The applicable county or well-recognised part of a county in 1832 (in the case of the Ridings of Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight, which was part of Hampshire) is given. Some places were moved to other administrative counties in the 1973-74 local-government changes—e.g., Christchurch moved from Hampshire to Dorset.
The Great Reform Bill of 1832 widened the franchise (immediately before this, only a small number of men, and even fewer women, could vote), although it would be 1918 before all men could vote (women would wait until 1928 in Great Britain, and until the 1970s in Northern Ireland).
A meeting of the Birmingham Political Union during May 1832, painted by Benjamin Haydon. The Days of May was a period of significant social unrest and political tension in the United Kingdom in May 1832, after the Tories [a] blocked the Third Reform Bill in the House of Lords, which aimed to extend parliamentary representation to the middle and working classes as well as the newly ...
Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, restored the civil rights of Catholics. Great Reform Act 1832, enfranchised slightly more property holders, rationalised the borough and county seat system. Slavery Abolition Act 1833, abolished slavery throughout the British Empire. Bird v Jones (1845) 7 QB 742, right to liberty, freedom of movement (across ...
The Representation of the People Act 1832 (commonly known as the Reform Act 1832 or sometimes as the Great Reform Act) was an act of Parliament (2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 45) that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales.
At Westminster O'Connell played a major part in the passage of the Reform Act 1832 and in the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (an international cause in which he continued to campaign). [20] [21] He spoke in defence of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, censured flogging in the army and opposed the death penalty for all but murder.