Everything about Representation Of The People Act 1884 totally explained
In the
United Kingdom, the
Representation of the People Act of 1884 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 3, also known as the
Third Reform Act) and the
Redistribution Act of the
following year were a response to the inequality in the electoral system left by
Benjamin Disraeli's
Reform Act 1867. Taken together, these measures extended the same
voting qualifications as existed in the towns to the countryside, and essentially established the modern one member constituency as the normal pattern for
Parliamentary representation.
The act extended the 1867 concessions from the
boroughs to the countryside. All men paying an annual rental of £10 or all those holding land valued at £10 now had the vote. The British electorate now totalled over 5,500,000. An
Act a year later redistributed constituencies, giving more representation to urban areas (especially
London).
The 1884 Reform Act didn't establish universal suffrage: although the size of the electorate was widened considerably, 40% of adult males were still without the vote at the time.
Key sections of the act
Section 2: This extended a uniform household and lodger franchise, to all
boroughs and
counties in the
United Kingdom.
Section 3: Men inhabiting a dwelling-house as an employee, whose employer didn't live there, were to be treated as if they were occupying as tenants for franchise purposes.
Section 4: Prohibition of multiplicity of votes. This wasn't to stop people acquiring multiple votes in different constituencies (
plural voting was still permitted), but to restrict sub-division of one property to qualify multiple voters (so called fagot voters).
Section 5: A man who was a £10 occupier in a county or borough was to be a voter in that county or borough. This assimilated the previous county occupation franchise and borough occupation franchise into a uniform occupation franchise.
Section 6: Occupation in a borough wasn't to confer a county franchise.
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