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Topic: Redistribution of Seats Act 1885

	PlanetPapers - The Growth of Democracy
		In this act, all householders who paid rates with 12 months residence and all £10 a year lodgers with one years residence in the Boroughs were given the Franchise.
		This act also helped the problem of redistribution of seats as it meant seats were organised in a more reasonable way with 25 in the Counties and 19 to the Boroughs.
		Although this act limited plural voting, this was a direct limit on the level of democracy being introduced as the wealthier were still regarded as being superior.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/2531.php (1736 words)

	Reform Act 1867 Encyclopedia Article @ 216.92.11.26 () (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In its final form, the Reform Act 1867 enfranchised all male householders and abolished compounding (the practice of paying rates to a landlord as part of rent).
		However, there was little redistribution of seats; and what there was had been intended to help the Conservative Party.
		52 seats were thus redistributed from small towns to the new towns, the growing industrial towns, the northern counties and 1 to the University of London.
	216.92.11.26 /encyclopedia/Reform_Act_1867 (1623 words)

	Victorian Legislation: a Timeline
		The legislation was finalised by the Jamaica Act of 1839.
		Following the 1832 Reform Act, the PLAA was intended to reduce the poor rates; it was not intended to help the poor who suffered as a result of the legislation.
		Employers and Workmen Act: this put workmen and their employers on the same legal footing in cases of breach of contract: breach of contract was a civil offence.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/legistl.html (3740 words)

	Sources of English Constitutional History: Chapter 135
		From and after the end of this present parliament, each of the parliamentary boroughs named in the fifth schedule to this act shall, for all purposes of and relating to parliamentary elections, include the places and be comprised within the boundaries which are respectively specified and described in the said schedule....
		All business of the quarter sessions or any committees thereof not transferred by or in pursuance of this act to the county council shall be reserved to and transacted by the quarter sessions or committee thereof in the same manner, as far as circumstances admit, as if this act had not passed.
		If in any employment to which this act applies personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to a workman, his employer shall, subject as hereinafter mentioned, be liable to pay compensation in accordance with the first schedule to this act.
	www.constitution.org /sech/sech_135.htm (3234 words)

	Buckingham - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The adjacent mansion of Stowe, approached from the town by a magnificent avenue of elms, and surrounded by gardens very beautifully laid out, was the seat of the dukes of Buckingham until the extinction of the title in 1889.
		Buckingham is served by a branch of the Grand Junction Canal, and has agricultural trade, manufactures of condensed milk and artificial manure, maltings and flour-mills; while an old industry survives to a modified extent in the manufacture of pillow-lace.
		In 1529 and from 1 545 onwards Buckingham returned two members to parliament, until deprived by the Representation of the People Act of 1867 of one member, and by the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885 of the other.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Buckingham (412 words)

	Reform Acts: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		The Reform Act of 1884, passed during the administration of William Gladstone, removed the distinction between county and borough franchises and, by the reduction of rural qualifications, added about 2,000,000 more men to the electorate.
		A redistribution act in 1885 rendered representation nearly proportional to population.
		The reform acts objectives are to discourage abusive...weapon in coercing settlements.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/reform_acts.jsp (2106 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Reform Acts - AOL Research & Learn
		This act, which further redistributed the seats and more than doubled the electorate, gave the vote to many workingmen in the towns.
		The Reform Act of 1884, passed during the administration of William Gladstone, removed the distinction between county and borough franchises and, by the reduction of rural qualifications, added about 2,000,000 more men to the electorate.
		A redistribution act in 1885 rendered representation nearly proportional to population.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/reform-acts/20051207032909990013 (452 words)

	Representation of the People Act 1928 Information
		The Representation of the People Act 1928 expanded on the act of the same name of a decade earlier.
		Prior to this act women over 30 who met minimum property qualifications could vote, however men who were eligible to vote could do so from age 21.
		This statute is sometimes known as the Fifth Reform Act.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1928 (93 words)

	The number of Scottish seats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Following the setting up of the Scottish parliament, the number of Scottish seats at Westminster will be reduced from 72 to 59 to correspond to the UK average of 67,000 electors per constituency.
		The 1944 Act was repealed by House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act 1949 (c 66) which made identical provision in Schedule 2, rule 1.
		The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (c 23).
	www.alba.org.uk /nextge/seats.html (410 words)

	Democracy in Britain « Lednum
		The Act allowed Britain to advance a step further in gaining equal representation before this Act seats were unfairly distributed leading to harsh and unfair representation.
		As a whole these Acts before 1900s edged Britain further to democracy but they did not deliver enormous changes, they of course were a vast improvement to the system to the way it stood before 1832, they were to be the last changes to the electoral system for some 30 years.
		The act meant that the expenses of candidates were published and could be measured against a limit as to how much could be spent on “political campaigns”.
	lednum.wordpress.com /tag/democracy-in-britain (1585 words)

	Potteries 1893 advertising and trade journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		By the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885, Hanley was made a Parliamentary borough, comprising the boroughs of Hanley and Burslem, and so much of the borough of Stoke-upon-Trent as lies north of Hanley, and is not included in the local government district of Tunstall.
		It is a plain brick edifice in a debased style of Gothic, and comprises a chancel and nave, quasi-aisles and a western tower of three stages, with embattled parapet of pinnacles, containing a clock and eight bells hung at a cost of £500.
		The church was restored and reseated in 1885, at an expenditure of £1,200, and has now 1,250 seats, 500 of which are free.
	www.thepotteries.org /trade_directory/1893_1.htm (1110 words)

	Political History of Kent - V.C.H. of Kent - Vol. 3 1923 Page 317
		By the Reform Act the representation was changed to two members for the eastern division, two for the western, two for Canterbury, one for Chatham, two each for Greenwich, Maidstone, Rochester and Dover, one for Hythe, and two for Sandwich.
		The Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885 made Woolwich a metropolitan parliamentary borough, and reduced the representation of Canterbury, Rochester and Dover to one member each, while the representation of the county was changed from six members in three divisions, to eight members in eight divisions.
		Under the Local Government Act of 1888, Kent (except such portions as are included in the county of London, and the borough of Canterbury, which is a county borough) became an administrative county, governed by a county council.
	www.kentarchaeology.org.uk /Research/03/03/03/317.htm (526 words)

	Elections in the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The overall result of the Act was that the electorate was increased to 14% of the adult male population.
		The overall effect was the that the Act increased the size of the electorate to 32% of the adult male population.
		The Franchise Act 1884 and the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (the Third Reform Act) collectively increased the electorate to 56% of the adult male population.
	elections-in-the-united-kingdom.kiwiki.homeip.net (2527 words)

	1885 Redistribution Act
		The Act allowed Britain to advance a step further in gaining equal representation before this Act seats were unfairly distributed leading to harsh and unfair representation.
		The redistribution of seats Act improved equality in representation but the improvement was not immense.
		As a whole these Acts before 1900s edged Britain further to democracy but they did not deliver enormous changes, they of course were a vast improvement to the system to the way it stood before 1832, they were to be the last changes to the electoral system for some 30 years.
	www.revision-notes.co.uk /revision/820.html (277 words)

	[No title]
		In this act the expression "a household qualification" means, as respects England and Ireland, the qualification enacted by the third section of the Representation of the People Act, 1867....[1] Public General Statutes, XXI, 3 f.: 48 Victoria, c.
		be for the purposes of this act an administrative county of itself....[11] The mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of each county borough, acting by the council, shall...
		as follows: — If in any employment to which this act applies personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to a workman, his employer shall, subject as hereinafter mentioned, be liable to pay compensation in accordance with the first schedule to this act.
	www.constitution.org /sech/sech_135.txt (2860 words)

	Informat.io on Reform Act 1832
		The Act also abolished 56 rotten boroughs and removed one MP from boroughs with fewer than 4,000 inhabitants.
		An act of 1829 required possession of freehold land worth at least £10 (a fivefold increase from the previous 40 shillings), as the qualification for a county vote.
		A by-election was held for the two seats of Dublin City, County Dublin, on 18 August 1832.
	www.informat.io /?title=reform-act-1832 (1931 words)

	Reform Act 1867
		In its final form, the Reform Act 1867 enfranchised all male householders and abolished compounding (the practice of paying rates to a landlord as part of rent).
		However, there was little redistribution of seats; and what there was had been intended to help the Conservative Party.
		52 seats were thus redistributed from small towns to the new towns, the growing industrial towns, the northern counties and 1 to the University of London.
	zdnet.co.za /r/e/f/Reform_Act_1867_2b78.html (1463 words)

	Baker v. Carr
		49 In 1944, redistribution was put on a periodic footing by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act of that year, 50 which committed a continuing primary responsibility for reapportioning the Commons to administrative agencies (Boundary Commissions for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, respectively).
		That case was a suit in the state courts attacking the 1901 Reapportionment Act and seeking a declaration and an injunction of the Act's enforcement or, alternatively, a writ of mandamus compelling state election officials to hold the elections at large, or, again alternatively, a decree of the court reapportioning the State.
		The 1944 Act was amended by the House of Commons (Redistribution of Seats) Act, 1947, 10 and 11 Geo.
	www.tourolaw.edu /patch/Baker/Frankfurter.asp (15349 words)

	The Twickenham Museum : MPs for Twickenham and Middlesex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		From the Model Parliament of 1295 until 1885, Twickenham was in the constituency of Middlesex, which returned two Members of Parliament.
		The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 split the Middlesex constituency into 7 divisions, reflecting the vast expansion of the population which had occurred in the 1870s.
		The Representation of the People Act 1918, resulted in reorganised boundaries and Twickenham was divided between the constituencies of Middlesex, Twickenham, and Middlesex, Spelthorne.
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /print_detail.asp?ContentID=275 (1476 words)

	Worcestershire genealogy heraldry and history
		Kidderminster is an important seat of the carpet manufacture; Worcester is renowned for the manufacture of fine porcelain and glass; and fire-bricks are largely made at Stourbridge.
		The administrative county under the Local Government Act of 1888 includes part of the civil parish of Ipsley in Warwickshire, but excludes part of the county borough of Birmingham, and has an area of 480,342 acres, and a population of 385,309.
		Under the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885, the boroughs of Bewdley, Droitwich, and Evesham were disfranchised, and Worcester lost one member.
	www.uk-genealogy.org.uk /england/Worcestershire/gazetteer.html (1040 words)

	Victorian Wolverhampton
		The Act was implemented in 1881, when much of Lichfield Street was re-aligned to provide a street of metropolitan grandeur.
		Under the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885, the number of seats was increased to three.
		From its incorporation, Wolverhampton council acted with vigour and enthusiasm that was the hallmark, though not the prerogative of the new industrial towns.
	www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk /articles/VictorianBuildings/19thCentWolves.htm (2437 words)

	untitled
		Charles II confirmed the grant and charter of Henry VII and the Corporation continued to be elected under the charter of Charles II until the passing of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835 (5 and 6 Wm.
		The King in consideration of the premises and of "the great burdens which the aforesaid Mayor and Citizens already have hardly in different manners borne," pardoned,remitted, and released the Sheriffs who were charged with the collection of it.
		III.) this Act was amended, and a further Act (The Chester Improvement Act) was passed in 1845.
	www.angelfire.com /ok3/chester/maindir/charters.htm (2492 words)

	[No title]
		Bucking-ham is served by a branch of the Grand Junction Canal, and has agricultural trade, manufactures of condensed milk and artificial manure, maltings and flour-mills; while an old industry survives to a modified extent in the manufacture of pillow-lace.
		In 1529 and from 1545 onwards Buckingham returned two members to parliament, until deprived by the Representation of the People Act of 1867 of one member, and by the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885 of the other.
		Early mentions occur of markets arid fairs, and from 1522, when Henry VIII, granted to Sir Henry Marney the borough of Bucking-ham with a Saturday market and two annual fairs, grants of fairs by various sovereigns were numerous.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=11747&locale=en (423 words)

	H2G2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Third Reform Act gave votes to householders and lodgers in counties who had been resident for 12 months.
		The Redistribution of Seats Act, which followed, aimed to redistribute voters more equally in the wake of the changes to electoral franchise.
		The aftermath of these two Acts more than ever increased the influence of the party as a political force and the party system of government became more prominent.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/pda/A545195?s_id=10 (216 words)

	Victoria (Part B)
		The school board shall be elected in manner provided by this act, in a borough by the persons whose names are on the burgess roll of such borough for the time being in force, and in a parish not situate in the metropolis by the ratepayers.
		This act, except any provision thereof which is declared to take effect on the passing of this act, shall commence and come into operation on the second day of November, 1874.
		FROM and after the passing of this act the present and every future Master of the Rolls shall cease to be a judge of Her Majesty’s high court of justice, but shall continue by virtue of his office to be a judge of Her Majesty’s court of appeal.
	home.freeuk.net /don-aitken/ast/vb.html (2360 words)

	Basildon General Election Results 1945 - 2005
		The constituency had been in existence since the 'Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885' and would remain so until 1955 when it was reorganised and renamed South East Essex.
		Robert McCrindle (later Sir) won the seat back for the tories in 1970 but new boundary changes meant certain areas moving and the seat became Basildon for the two 1974 elections.
		The Basildon seat was now for the first and so far only time, made up of those wards that came to make up the new town, along with Bowers Gifford.
	www.basildon.com /history/basildon/bger1.html (538 words)

	Reform Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Reform Act 1832 (The "First" or "Great" Reform Act), which disenfranchised most of the rotten boroughs and gave representation to previously unrepresented urban areas like Birmingham.
		Reform Act 1867 (The "Second" Reform Act), which widened the franchise, and adjusted representation to be more equitable.
		The Ballot Act 1872 (sometimes called the "Reform Act of 1872"), which introduced the secret ballot.
	reform-act.iqnaut.net (160 words)

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