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
3 - Registration and polling returns by borough and county, 1832–1839
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
Note on presentation and sources
The registration returns for each borough and county in England and Wales are arranged by the date of each revision, rather than the year in which the electoral registers were mostly in force. The 1835 return, for example, gives the number of registered electors entitled to vote at a parliamentary election held between 1 November 1835 and 1 November 1836. The columns also provide the number of electors who polled in the 1832, 1835 and 1837 general elections. These are also arranged chronologically. The January 1835 election figures, for example, appear before the October 1835 registration return. Uncontested elections are indicated by n/c and blank entries indicate a lack of reliable information. There are no figures for 1838 as these returns are missing from the data compiled by the Home Office.
The Parliamentary papers (see bibliography) upon which these registration figures are based suffer from a number of imperfections, the most common being confusion over dates. When in November 1837 the Home Office clerks wrote to each constituency requesting a return of the number of electors registered for 1836 and 1837, for example, it was unclear whether they were referring to the registers in force for the greater part of those two years (i.e. the registers compiled in 1835 and 1836), or those which had been revised in October 1836 and October 1837.
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- Electoral Reform at WorkLocal Politics and National Parties, 1832–1841, pp. 256 - 264Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2002