Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Reform Act of 1832. The Act redrew the map of British politics in the wake of the Industrial Revolution and is a landmark in British political history ...

When the Great Reform Act was passed in 1832, voters were defined as ‘male persons' - the first time it had explicitly been spelled out that women were not allowed to vote.

The 1832 Reform Act extended the vote beyond the aristocracy in England and Wales, while the 1888 County Councils act extended the right to vote in local elections to female ratepayers. Nielsen ...

First, following the 1832 Reform Act, voting rights were extended to a greater share of the male population. Electoral boundaries moved to better reflect the urbanisation of industrialised Britain.

In 1832, for example, the impasse was between the Lords and the Commons, ... the Reform Act failed to deliver the vote to the ordinary working man as only those with property could vote.