Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I THE REFORMED ELECTORAL SYSTEM
- PART II THE COUNTIES
- PART III THE BOROUGHS
- Appendices
- 1 The re-distribution of English and Welsh seats in 1832
- 2 Voting qualifications after 1832
- 3 Registration and polling returns by borough and county, 1832–1839
- 4 The assimilation of English boroughs to the New Poor Law
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - The re-distribution of English and Welsh seats in 1832
from Appendices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I THE REFORMED ELECTORAL SYSTEM
- PART II THE COUNTIES
- PART III THE BOROUGHS
- Appendices
- 1 The re-distribution of English and Welsh seats in 1832
- 2 Voting qualifications after 1832
- 3 Registration and polling returns by borough and county, 1832–1839
- 4 The assimilation of English boroughs to the New Poor Law
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
After many confusing alterations, the final scheme was as follows:
Disfranchisement
Schedule A: fifty-five English ‘rotten’ boroughs returning two MPs and another (Higham Ferrers) with a single MP lost their own representation = 111 spare seats.
Schedule B: thirty smaller English boroughs lost one of their two MPs = 30 spare seats.
Clause 6: The four MPs for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis were halved = 2 spare seats.
Total number of available seats for re-distribution = 143.
Enfranchisement
Schedule C: twenty-two new boroughs to elect two MPs = 44 seats.
Schedule D: twenty-one new boroughs to elect a single MP = 21 seats.
Clause 12: Yorkshire increased from four to six MPs (two for each Riding) = 2 seats.
Clause 13–14: twenty-six English counties divided and increased from two to four MPs = 52 seats.
Clause 15: seven English counties given a third MP = 7 seats.
Clause 15: counties of Carmarthen, Denbigh and Glamorgan given a second MP = 3 seats.
Clause 16: Isle of Wight made a single Member county = 1 seat.
Total new English and Welsh seats = 130
Of the thirteen seats which were left over, eight were allocated to Scotland and five to Ireland.
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- Electoral Reform at WorkLocal Politics and National Parties, 1832–1841, pp. 251 - 252Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2002