Abstract
AbstractIt is well known that the 1832 Reform Act did little to rid the electoral system of some of its more blatant injustices. In the words of Professor Norman Gash, ‘The Reform Act represents no more than a clumsy but vigorous hacking at the system to make it a roughly more acceptable shape … inevitably therefore the characteristics of the old system persisted in the new’. The franchise had only been cautiously extended from 286,527 voters to an electorate of 366,250, giving the vote to a mere 18 per cent of the adult male population of England and Wales, and more flagrant abuses remained. The continued existence of many single member boroughs with relatively small populations and the absence of a secret ballot allowed a significant number of pocket or proprietary boroughs to survive.
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