One of the main drivers of Tory Democracy was the passing of the Reform Act in 1832, which expanded the franchise and forced local Conservative parties to engage with newly-enfranchised voters.

William Lovett founded the London Working Men’s Association (LWMA) in 1836 after the Reform Act 1832 failed to extend the franchise far enough. He was one of the leaders of the Chartist political ...

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Prior to the Reform Act of 1832, which massively expanded the franchise and ended the rotten borough system, roughly a ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Between the 1832 Great Reform Act and the outbreak of World War One in 1914, over 2,600 by-elections took place in Britain. They were ...

British politics has now entered a new and unpredictable phase. After their party’s smashing defeat at the latest election, ...

4. In some boroughs, you had to be a “potwalloper” to get a vote Until the Great Reform Act of 1832, different boroughs had different rules governing who got the vote. These stipulated varying ...

Crucially, he pledged to accept the 1832 Reform Act, which had recently increased the number of people eligible to vote. Peel won the election, but only narrowly. He resigned the following year ...

In 1857 he was elected to Parliament as an independent Radical MP for Glasgow, in what was described as the "bitter fight of ...

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Prior to the Reform Act of 1832, which massively expanded the franchise and ended the rotten borough system, roughly a ...