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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 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 Reform Act 1832 disenfranchised all but seven of the Cornish boroughs, and one of those while technically surviving had been entirely swamped by the addition of a larger neighbouring town. Truro had also been trebled in size, Launceston doubled, and Bodmin and St Ives increased by more than half, even before allowing for the reform of the ...
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]
The Society of the Friends of the People was an organisation in Great Britain that was focused on advocating for parliamentary reform. It was founded by the Whig Party in 1792. The Society in England was aristocratic and exclusive, in contrast to the Friends of the People in Scotland , who increasingly drew on a wider membership.
The Sheffield Borough constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832, and was given two MPs, the first time that the town had been represented in the House of Commons. Four candidates stood at the first election contesting these two seats. Voting took place on 13 and 14 December 1832, with the results declared on 15 December (see below).
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.
Reform Act 1832; Reform Act 1867; Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1832; Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1868; Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868; Representation of the People Act 1884; Representation of the People Act 1918; Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928; Representation of the People ...