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short term effects of 1832

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✔1/5 adult males can vote (artisans and m/c)
✔ fewer pocket boroughs
✖ Equal electoral districts still did not exists. London and North still underrepresented

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long term effects of 1832

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✔influence of Lords and crown reduced 
✔rise in contested elections
✖not all convinced of needs for further reform
✖Grey preserved aristocratic gov
✖corruption and bribery continue 
✖landed interests still dominate
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long term effects of 1858

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✔ Property qualification was exposed as a sham and abolished

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short term effects of 1867

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✔1/3 adult males can vote - household franchise
✔Borough electorate grows 134% and w/c dominate borough electorate for first time
✖ those on poor relief, living with parents or with less than a years residency could not vote
✖over representation continued
✖most laborers still could not vote

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long term effects of 1867

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✔party organisation develops. paid local agents
✔more contested seats
✔larger electorate meant more social reform
✔stricter party discipline
✖landed interest still dominate in counties
✖ social composition of MPS changes little

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short term effects of 1872

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✖many overlooked the secrecy of the ballot

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long term effects of 1872

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✔more representative and democratic

✔increased efficiency of electoral process

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long term effects of 1883

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✔amount per votes falls 18s8d - 3s4d

✖ MPs still not paid so 20% still not contested

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short term effects of 1884

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✔2/3 adult men could vote (some agricultural labourers and miners)
✔2.5 m new voters 
✔redistribution of rural seats 
✖plural voting remained
✖ complex process disenfranchised many
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long term effects of 1884

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✔ in 1885 workers outnumbered landowners in HoC for first time
✔ decline of aristocratic influence as result of redistribution

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short term effects of 1885

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✔London MPs 22 –> 59
✖ North still underrepresented
✖Ireland still over represented

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long term effects of 1911

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✔ commons could overrule lords sometimes
✔ Lords’ power significantly reduced
✔Bonar-Law was m/c
✔Working men could be MPs

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short term effects of 1918

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✔all adult men and women over 30 could vote
✔Franchise 7.7m –> 21.4m
✖ complexities of voting disenfranchised c7% of men

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long term effects of 1918

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✔ women over 30 could be MPs
✔Boost for labour: cheaper elections and paid MPs
✔enfranchisement and payment of w/c MPs
✖ plural voting remains

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short term effects of 1928

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✔ 5 million new voters